Posts by Team UHF

For the health conscious, dates are considered nature’s perfect snack food. They grow in bite sized pieces, they can be easily incorporated into countless recipes for entrees, deserts, and appetizers, they’re naturally sweet, and are loaded with potassium, fiber, protein, and natural sugars.

Opportunities to improve our health through supplements are boundless. We thought we’d share one of the less well-known suggestions: maca.

Our friends at HealthLine dug deep into ginger: a flowering perennial plant that’s a relative of turmeric and cardamom. Here are 11 findings that their studies have yielded about this spicy root.

How much salt do you really need? How much are you getting? Thanks to our U.S. Government, packaged foods are required to have a Nutrition Facts Label that lists the amount of sodium in every food product.

October 2020, the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology published a report on tea drinkers. Their finding?

Most people in America probably reach for a caffeinated beverage first thing in the morning. For some people caffeine is what gets us through the day. Whatever your reason, beverage or caffeine substance of choice is, it’s probably important to you. And there are some good reasons why.

Many people around the world ascribe to a dairy-free, gluten-free, pescetarian, vegetarian, or vegan lifestyle. These are not “diets” to lose weight, but “dietary habits” and lifestyle choices that people make based on their dietary needs, religious, environmental, or personal beliefs.

Superfoods are whole foods high in vitamins and minerals that have superior health benefits compared to other foods. Often these superfoods are fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds that are packed with various antioxidants.

Building a healthy lifestyle often starts with what we put into our bodies. However, sometimes it is hard to do so on a budget. But there are many ways to eat healthy and not break the bank.