Blog — health

Potatoes are cheap to buy, easy to grow, plentiful in variety and highly nutritious. What other food can you say that about? Potatoes contain almost every nutrient the human body needs. Some nutrients are more plentiful in potatoes than others, of course, but even protein, calcium and iron are found therein. There are more than 100 potato varieties – russet, red, white, yellow, blue/purple, fingerling and petite – sold in the United States. And more than 400 varieties of sweet potatoes, including white sweet potatoes – such as camote, boniato, or batata – available around the world. Each variety has a different...

As a local Austin company, we work with influential individuals and businesses within our community that share our vision of whole nutrition and believe in the importance of a healthy eating lifestyle.With the New Year in place, many of us are focused on new health and fitness goals. What better way to reset, reboot, and kickstart healthier habits, than with a juice cleanse?We started 2016 off right by facilitating our first group cleanse of the year with 5 Fitness Training & Yoga! 5 Fit is a fitness studio focusing on 5 pillars of fitness: Strength Training, Cardiovascular Health, Flexibility, Nutrition,...

There's little doubt that the right diet can improve and even prevent diabetes. This is especially true of type 2 diabetes, which is basically insulin resistance, but type 1 diabetes, also known as “juvenile diabetes”, can also be improved with the right diet. Below, and in no particular order, I have listed the whole foods that contain the nutrients most noted for their ability to alleviate and even prevent diabetes.  Diabetes Fighting Foods Chromium-Rich Foods broccoli barley oats green beans tomatoes Romaine lettuce mushrooms asparagus potatoes prunes bananas nuts black pepper thyme Alpha-Lipoic Acid-Rich Foods spinach yams broccoli potatoes Brussels...