How to Make Homemade Iced Tea from Bags or From Scratch
Here in the south iced tea is a way of life. Whether you like it sweet or unsweet, learning how to make homemade iced tea is the key to staying cool during a scorcher of a summer.
Healthy Drinks
5 Best Fermented Foods for Your Health (and why you should eat them!)
Fermented foods are getting a lot of cred lately as superfoods. Here’s what makes them so healthy along with some ideas for how to eat more of them.
Water: The Importance of Hydration
Adequate water is important for daily life functions. Just how much water do we need, and what is it doing inside our bodies?
Importance of Hydration in the Summer Heat
It’s that time of the year when we not only have to concentrate on eating healthy, but on staying properly hydrated too. The summer heat can cause discomforting symptoms if regular and adequate fluids are not consumed.
Healthy Halloween Treats: Pumpkin Bread, Raw Coconut Macaroons, Carob Balls, & More
The fun of costumes and sweet foods has become the focus of this time of year. Hot apple cider; warm pumpkin bread or pie; friendly spiders; and webs of community fun, mystery, and magic are all over the place. Sugary treats from the store, however, do not need to take center stage. On Halloween, we can …
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10 Water Facts (+ a few)
This post is part of our participation in Blog Action Day 2010. If you hadn’t heard, water is sort of important for our health… some even say we need it to live. Yeah, I guess this isn’t news to you. Hopefully, though, some of these cool water facts are. And hopefully they’ll help you to …
10 Health Benefits of Drinking Tea
Black, green, white, and oolong teas all come from the same plant known as Camellia Sinensis. The more processing the leaves of the plant undergo, the darker they will turn. (Green and white being steamed quickly, black and oolong being dried and fermented.) Regardless of the processing method, brewed tea not only tastes good, but …