expert advice on health, wellness and beauty for women
What you eat plays a major role in your overall health, wellness, and appearance. We provide delicious and nutritious recipes that you can easily create and incorporate directly into your diet. This category has all posts we have tagged with the term “recipe for health”.
Many people ask me what clean eating is, and the truth is, it can mean different things to different people. Clean eating, at it’s core, is eating foods that are as close to the way nature intended them as possible. It’s about avoiding fake foods, packaged foods, refined (white) flour, refined (white and brown) sugar [...]
Chia seed has become the super food darling of the nutrition and athletic worlds. The health benefits of chia seed with its essential minerals, anti-inflammatory Omega fats, and satiating dietary fiber are undeniable. Luckily, cooking with chia seeds has a whole other set of delicious benefits in the kitchen, too. Remember the Chia Pet? If [...]
As the collective interest in eating “better” grows, it pays to remember that what you eat can help your complexion, through something known as skin food. When we think of diet we usually think of weight loss or reducing the amount of fat or carbohydrates that are eaten. Yet, what you eat can play such [...]
When we hear the term “super foods” we tend to throw out reason and embrace mystery. The term sounds so compelling because the effect of these foods are so powerful. We automatically classify them as exotic fruits, like acai berries or greens from sea kelp. While these more arcane types of foodstuffs qualify for that [...]
Want to try something fun and healthy? Why not have your friends over for a chocolate and wine pairing or “tasting”? At first blush, the idea of pairing these two “health foods” doesn’t seem natural, but it turns out that they are actually meant for each other. The health benefits are of chocolate are well [...]
The holidays are here and with that comes a tendency to lose sight, either by design or circumstances, of health and wellness. But who says you can’t host a fabulous fete and provide cocktail offerings that are both delicious and good for you? Here are three tempting and healthy cocktail recipes you can serve up [...]
When we say “The Big O” we mean organic. And at be, we are huge proponents of eating locally grown and organically produced food as much as possible. Yet, most people don’t really understand what the designation of “organic” means other than it may be “healthy” and that it usually costs a lot more. And [...]
The summer berry season provides delicious and refreshing fruit, and sweet strawberries are at the top of our list because they taste divine. But equally as important they are also loaded with skin protecting antioxidant properties. The recipe uses fresh fruit and minimizes the amount of sugar used to allow the strawberry‘s natural taste to [...]
In founding be, we asked ourselves a simple question: “Why can’t you have the life you want, on your terms, without prejudice or pre-conceived notions about how you should look or feel?” … [Read More...]