Nutritional Yeast: What it is, The health benefits and How to use it. With its awesome cheesy flavour and impressive nutritional profile, the popularity of Nutritional Yeast is quickly growing! So what is it, why is it so amazing and how do you eat it? L-R: 1)Baked potato, homemade bruschetta with garden tomatoes, veggie “chicken” […]

How to eat healthy on an all inclusive vacation……

Sooooo just like many people I ate wayyyyy too much this Easter weekend. Since I don’t and never will, count calories or macros I have no idea how much more I ate than normal but my guess is I probably ate double what I normally do for two straight days. And so I have some “catch […]

Asian Veggie Tofu StirFry tonight at my house…. it was amazing but the tofu (a soy product) in it is something I use sparingly. We probably consume tofu about once every few months and I am also diligent in terms of limiting other soy food products.  SO WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH SOY? I have […]

It is difficult to believe that despite the phenomenal advances of modern medicine and agriculture 25% of people suffer from chronic fatigue, poor concentration, depression and a host of other serious health implications caused from a lack of dietary nutrients, namely iron and b12.  This picture is one of our favourites and happens to be […]

It is difficult to believe that despite the phenomenal advances of modern medicine and agriculture 25% of people suffer from chronic fatigue, poor concentration, depression and a host of other serious health implications caused from a lack of dietary nutrients, namely iron and b12.  This picture is one of our favourites and happens to be […]

There are so many amazing benefits of Diatomaceous Earth (DE). I’ve been using it daily for over two years and my children for around a year now.  Personally I’ve noticed: increased energy, shorter and lighter periods (which has been an immense help in getting my ferritin/iron levels under control without using birth control/synthetic hormones), huge improvement […]

Being a nurse for over fifteen years I have seen countless amazing health stories that have come as a result of conventional medicine. Patients who have been given a second chance at life or a higher quality of life after receiving heart surgery, knee and hip replacements, plastic surgery for burns, wound care…. the list […]

Happiness vs Positivity These are often used interchangeably and nothing could be worse for our mentalhealth in my opinion. This is me, unfiltered and happy despite my terrible fashion choices (a common issue for me but capris and rubber boots is pushing it lol) and my extremely imperfect life. I’m not going to preach that happiness […]

Those that follow me on a regular basis (thank-you❤) know by now that my definition of health encompasses far more than eating well and being active. I view true health as systemic: mind, body and soul. I blog about mental health and community involvement as much as I do about recipes and fitness, because it […]