Five years after a health scare prompted a New Brunswick couple to reimagine the most consumed beverage in the world after water, their category-creating innovation has attracted the attention of one of the biggest and most premium natural-food grocery chains in the world.
You’ve probably been told to eat your veggies before – now, you’re hearing you should eat more whole foods. Change the way you eat for the better by discovering what a whole food is and how to eat more of them. Here are 5 easy ways to add more whole foods to your diet that you can start, today.
As astounding as that may be, that tasty tidbit about tea is actually backed by scientific fact. Tea is healthy for you! No wonder tea is called a superfood. Did you know that tea impacts the moisture retention in skin, how organized your brain structures are, and guards your genome? (Talk about the kind of steamy details that heat up great conversations over a cup of tea or a cool green smoothie with friends.) Thanks to science, we understand now more than ever why tea is healthy and what eating fresh tea leaves could mean to your future.
Sometimes you’re given a gift. A purpose. Aknowingthat you’ve been given the chance to do something that both lights you up inside – and something that has the potential to do some real good in the world.
I am feeling that deep level of love and appreciation right now. I’ll tell you why in a sec. First though, some context.
What you eat has a profound impact on your health and the planet. It’s well known that is it healthy to eat plants, but what does the research say about the health impacts of our plant-eating ways? Or, how our choices to eat more plants are impacting the environment? Explore the fascinating science behind the plants we eat, discover some unusual plants you can eat, and ways to eat more sustainably.
It’s been a long and sometimes difficult road from that nursery through the launch and early growth ofMillennia Tea. But the company recently announced its products – including flash-frozen loose tea – will be carried in Sobeys stores nationwide, growing out of Sobeys’ Support Local program. The Bells, from the company’s office in Saint John, New Brunswick, are celebrating it as a milestone.
What emotion did that word just evoke for you? If your over 30, my guess is it was a negative one. Take heart! Aging is a normal, natural process, and we are all doing it. What most of us want though, is to age well. To have healthy minds and bodies, to look and feel our best well into our senior years. Having a generous number of candles on your birthday cake shouldn’t signal the end of anything, only a new year full of opportunities and adventure.
You could ditch those annoying itchy eyes and runny nose by eating foods that relieve seasonal allergies and avoid those that make you feel worse, say scientists. It is impressive what researchers know about why pollen can make you so itchy, and the impressive abilities of certain foods to act as natural remedies for seasonal allergies. Oh, and some foods can make your allergies worse. Achoo! Oh, excuse me. (Looks like we could all use the helpful tips in this blog.) Here’s what to eat to help relieve seasonal allergies.
Saint John, NB –A New Brunswick start up that created an all-new way to share one of the oldest and healthiest beverages in the world is getting a big boost.
Millennia TEA and Sobeys have partnered to bring the first-ever raw,un-driedTEA to grocery freezers across Canada.
Tea in the freezer aisle is something that’s never been done before. Millennia TEA co-founder Tracy Bell says working with a Canadian grocery giant rooted in the Maritimes to bring a Maritime innovation across the county was a natural partnership.
Don’t be fooled by fancy boxes with expensive price tags – you know that the secret to a healthy spring detox has nothing to do with what you buy. Or, perhaps you’ve seen on a trendy website a detox, such as the green tea detox, and are left wondering do detoxes work? The short, Cole’s notes version of the science, is that your body naturally detoxifies itself every day; however, similar to how your inbox or pile of papers to file aren’t always in perfect order, occasionally it’s helpful to spend a little time tidying up. That’s what a detox is. Here’s what science shows are the 7 secrets to a healthy spring detox you should know.
Hugging a warm, comforting mug of green tea is a delicious delight, but there are more reasons to HEART green tea. Inside green tea leaves are a variety of helpful compounds that cause some really cool health benefits to your entire cardiovascular system. As such, it’s no surprise that when researchers look at the health of people who regularly drink green tea, they found an inverse association with the risk of cardiovascular disease (In less geeky words, drinking green tea as one of your healthy lifestyle habits is likely good for your heart!) Let’s pour a mug of green tea and sip the science on why there are so many reasons to heart green tea!
This Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Smoothie consists of five basic ingredients you likely always keep on hand, and one SUPERFOOD ingredient to boost antioxidants and energy! A superfood chocolate and peanut butter smoothie that helps increase energy and focus? AND will satisfy all your chocolate cravings? Count me in!
