Living Our Best Lives

You Are What Your Food Eats

grass fed beef, pasture raised, free-range, pesticides

You’ve probably heard the saying “You are what you eat”. This statement is true, but what about what our food eats?

Is Exercise Necessary for a Healthy Lifestyle?

Have you ever heard the phrase “abs are made in the kitchen”? It’s true, we can’t out-run or out-exercise an unhealthy diet. Be that as it may, exercise is an important part of living a healthy lifestyle. However, that doesn’t mean you must spend hours at the gym. In this sense exercise refers more to being active in general.

Ingredients in Packaged Food to Avoid

Eat real food, vegetables, clean eating, avoid processed and packaged foods

Modified-this, hydrogenated-that. There are a number of potentially harmful chemicals and ingredients that manufacturers put in our food products (an estimated 2,000 to be exact). We touch on some of the most common here, but remember, if it’s on the label and it’s not a food product, put it back and choose something else.

How to Read a Nutrition Facts Label

Food labels, reading nutrition facts labels

In several posts we’ve talked about reading food labels and ingredient lists. But what the heck does that mean and what are we looking, or rather not looking, for?