Fabulous Facts About Fermentation and Your Gut Health (Blog 4Q 2015)

Walk through a supermarket or flip through a health magazine—it’s hard to miss advertisements praising the benefits of probiotics or the “good” bacteria. These bacteria naturally reside in your intestines and help to produce nutrients, promote healthy digestion, and enhance immune function. Probiotics can be found in foods such as fermented dairy or vegetable products […]

Fermentation and Gut Health

Walk through a supermarket or flip through a health magazine—it’s hard to miss advertisements praising the benefits of probiotics or the “good” bacteria. These bacteria naturally reside in your intestines and help to produce nutrients, promote healthy digestion, and enhance immune function. Probiotics can be found in foods such as fermented dairy or vegetable products […]

Quinoa: Vegan Superfood

Pronounced “keen-wa”, quinoa is one of our favorite superfoods in holistic nutrition. In fact, a student recently commented to me that she felt like her Nat 101 instructor was obsessed with quinoa, answering many of her questions with this one food! “It’s like it’s the only food she knows,” she grumbled. “Hmmm… What questions were […]