What Are You Thankful For?
If you’ve been looking for inspo on gratitude journal prompts, read this.
Balancing Thanksgiving Sugar Quality
The 8 recipes in our Share & Savor course can be mixed and matched in so many ways to build a well-balanced Holiday meals
All About Sugar and Its Many Names
Sugar is one of the 3 types of carbohydrates in your daily diet. Unlike starch and fiber, sugar is not one of the carbs your body needs.
Vitamin D and Acute Respiratory Infections
With national COVID-19 surges and the onset of flu season, it’s more important than ever to learn how to protect yourself. As your only host defense, your immune system is incredibly important. Its cells, antibodies and protein signals (cytokines) are our best shot at preventing viral infections and limiting complications if we are infected. It turns out that vitamin D is one of the chemicals our immune system needs to strengthen itself. This is an especially important topic for Black Americans because brown skin has a harder time converting the sun into vitamin D.
Learn more in our low-commitment 14-day Lower The Load course
Strengthening Your Immune System- Not Scientifically Possible?
With national COVID-19 surges and the onset of flu season, there are a bunch of complicated terms floating around online like active immunity and passive immunity (also known as innate and adaptive immunity). Then there are all the immune-booster claims that are simply not scientifically possible.
Learn more in our low-commitment 14-day Lower The Load course
4 Components of a Well-Balanced Thanksgiving Meal and Leftovers
The 8 recipes in our Share & Savor course can be mixed and matched in so many ways to build a well-balanced meals from the leftovers of your healthy thanksgiving recipes.
8 Easy Recipes: Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Sides
In our Share & Savor Course, you’ll learn 8 amazingly nutritious plant-based recipes that double as easy thanksgiving recipes and make-ahead sides just in time for the big day
How Your Glass Baking Dish Can Help You Avoid Pillsbury TransFats This Holiday [Recipe]
Artificial trans-fats (partially hydrogenated oils) are found in some of our most delicious comfort foods including pillsbury crescent rolls (and likely other dinner rolls)! Grab your glass baking dish and make your own with this recipe.
Low-Sodium Chicken Vegetable Soup Recipe [Video]
In the US, November is soup time. By the time November hits, it’s cold enough in much of the US to start craving the comfort of a warm soup or stew [chicken vegetable soup- yummmm].
6 Healthy Halloween Tips
There’s no reason you can’t make this a relatively healthy halloween. Use these 6 healthy halloween tips to stay on track with your wellness glow-up.
Starter Byte Challenge Day 13: What Are The Best Plant-Based Starches?
Get calcium and vitamins A&B from high-quality plant-based starches like…
Starter Byte Challenge Day 12: What Is a Plant-Based Starch?
We eat lots of starch in junk food, but it can be part of a healthy plant-based diet, too…
Starter Byte Challenge Day 11: Fiber
Yesterday, we talked about sugar. Next up is fiber. Know how hard it is to chew celery or an apple? That stiffness is fiber. It’s in fruits, veggies…
Starter Byte Challenge Day 10: Added Sugars
Yesterday we talked about sugar , which isn’t all bad…
Starter Byte Challenge Day 9: How Sweet It Is- All About Sugar
Sugar is one of the 3 types of carbohydrates in your daily diet. Unlike starch and fiber, sugar is not one of the carbs your body needs.
Starter Byte Challenge Day 8: What's in a Carb?
Carbohydrates- also known as “carbs”. Sometimes you love them…
Starter Byte Challenge Day 7 Review: Plant-Based Eating Barriers
Use this tool to identify your barriers to plant-based eating…
Starter Byte Challenge Day 6: What Are Macros (Macronutrients)?
Macronutrients…can’t live with too much of them; but can’t live without them.
Starter Byte Challenge Day 5: Plant-based Nutrients
Nutrients help u live, think and move. Get the highest quality nutrients possible…
Starter Byte Challenge Day 4: Food and Gut Health
Heartburn w greasy foods proves the link between digestive health and food. It goes deeper…