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Dark Chocolate with a Dark Side? How to Enjoy Dark Chocolate while Minimizing Heavy Metal Concern
Chocolate lovers everywhere tend to rejoice, and rightfully so, when they hear that dark chocolate offers a wide range of health benefits, including decreased inflammation, improved gut health, and mood improvement. How, then, can we now be contemplating hidden...

Achieving Longevity Through Your Favorite Foods
A quick Google search of the term “longevity” will prompt a whole host of results centered on habits linked to a longer life, longevity as determined by your genetics, and even tools that supposedly function as “life expectancy...

7 Pleasantly Surprising Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate has long been thought of as a special treat to be saved for the occasional guilty pleasure or holiday. In this case, however, the indulgent taste is deceiving—dark chocolate containing 80 percent cacao or higher is packed with nutrients that can...

Basic Kitchen Tools for Cooking Healthy Meals at Home
There is no denying that cooking meals at home is one of the most impactful steps that you can take towards improved health. According to a 2017 study published in Public Health Nutrition, people who regularly cook meals at home have healthier overall diets and...

5 Foods To Eat More Of (And Their Unhealthy Counterparts To Avoid)
It seems like so much of today’s health culture is focused on cutting foods out of our diet. We hear that one food is “bad” for us and it becomes a chore to remove it from our pantry permanently. But so much of the time, we are left with a void where that food used to...

How Can We Safely Interact with Those Outside of Our “Quaranteam?”
At this point, every U.S. state has begun to reopen in some capacity. While there are substantial variations in the steps being taken by each state, the uniform move towards a re-opened country signals a major transition. With this significant shift comes more...

5 Forgotten Areas & Items You Should Be Disinfecting
By now, most of us are accustomed to the standard preventative measures that are required to best avoid the contraction and spread of COVID-19. One of those general measures is disinfecting. There is endless information on disinfecting our hands through washing with...

This Disease Increases Coronavirus Risk (& How to Combat It)
By now, most of us are familiar with the most dominant characteristics of the Coronavirus. It is much more contagious than the common flu virus, symptoms may vary from severe difficulty breathing, blood clots, and gastrointestinal distress to temporary loss of smell...