Sweetness comes in a beautiful variety of packages beyond sugar--one of which is found in the monk fruit, or luo han guo fruit. A cousin...

With the increasing diets and nutritional protocols, many exotic sweeteners have made their way to the health food sections of our...

Often, a food’s nutritional value is questioned or confused because of modern processing methods. Depending on your currant verdict of...

It amazes me how many nutritional resources that surround us in nature. Not only is there an endless variety of food around the world,...

We will begin our analysis of sweeteners with a traditional fructose produced by nature’s honeybee. History’s first record of the use of...

November is here and the holidays ahead! This means sweets and sugar consumption are on the rise and so are many blood sugar levels....

Quality nutrition is so important for healing and maintaining our physical body. Embracing this stewardship is my passion as a...

There are a multitude of reasons we crave the foods we do. Last week, I defined them within six categories--which I playfully termed the...

Why do we desire and choose to eat the foods we eat? Perhaps this seems like a very silly question! The answer is obvious, right? As I...

How often have you thought that the health or disease you experience is based upon your parents’ health (your genetics) rather than your...

Observation: an act or instance of regarding attentively; something that is learned in the course of observing things How often do we go...

Change, though it may seem to occur in a moment, often evolves through a series of smaller events. If you reflect back on the the...

In a time of crisis, when livelihoods are threatened, the routines which maintain our health are often compromised. This is typically...

There once was a day when the producer and consumer of a food product were one in the same. Or, at the least, the producer and the...

Although scientific advancements will often lead a shift in culture, as we saw through the Industrial Revolution, more often than not,...

The creativity and innovation of mankind can produce incredible and rapid change. Through periods of history, this is evident as...

Without receiving a great exhortation about the negative impact of sugar on our health, most individuals would agree that the average...

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.“ ~Michael Crichton When...

As an essential nutrient to our health, minerals tend to receive a lot of positive attention. (Unlike fats, which I intended to redeem...

Fatty acids are one of the most culturally confusing macronutrients and foundations, and thus, could use some tender attention. Consider...