Become a tea aficionado with this guide to different types of tea, including fresh tea. There are important differences between fresh tea, dried leaf, and loose-leaf tea that have a major impact on your teacup. Your kettle will be boiling with excitement over your new-found tea confidence after reading this guide to different types of tea. Plus, discover where to find the healthiest tea. (Hint: think fresh tea!)
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The lines are getting blurred in the grocery store aisles between foods and supplements, and it’s having some unexpected impacts on what you’re eating. From reimagined classics to innovating products that reduce food waste, there are some fascinating food trends that are going to change what you buy from the grocery store. Here are the top food trends that are impacting what you eat, and whether or not, it’s a healthy shift.
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Some teabags contain plastic that breaks down to form microplastics that end up in your cup of tea. Suddenly, your cup of tea sounds a little less delicious. Called microplastics, small pieces of plastics that degrade from these plastic-containing teabags should concern you.
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Eating clean is a hot trend that’s reaching a boiling point and has many of you steeping away, wondering, how clean is your tea? From which teas are really dirty to teas one would include in a clean eating lifestyle, here are 7 facts about tea that’ll make you wonder how dirty is your tea. You bet that if you enjoy a good cuppa every now and then, this blog is definitely going to be your cup of tea.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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