Food and Nutrition

Our understanding of what food is has become mired in a complex web of information that spans a diverse range of expertise including medicine, healing, health, farming and agriculture, nutritional science, mass production, genetic modification, cultural perspectives, and government regulation. There is a need to clarify and simplify our orientation to food and healthy eating in order to promote well being, environmental preservation, and cultural progress. [Bookmarks: Food]

Food: The Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Food: The Anti-Inflammatory Diet

[Exploring Life] The word diet is commonly associated with methods of restricting food intake in [...]

Nutrition: Sunlight-Sun Beds-Vitamin D

Nutrition: Sunlight-Sun Beds-Vitamin D

[Exploring Life] Sunlight is the essence from which all life on our planet originates, evolves [...]

Nutrition: Organic Food vs. Non-Organic Food

Nutrition: Organic Food vs. Non-Organic Food

[Exploring Life] The ignorance of scientists and science can at times be so blinding that [...]

Nutrition: The Use of Nutritional Supplements

Nutrition: The Use of Nutritional Supplements

[Exploring Life] Many people take a nutritional supplement (also known as dietary or food supplements) [...]

Food: Superfood – Critical Attributes

[Exploring Life] A superfood is currently a category of food that lacks clear definition. One [...]

Food: Superfood - Health Claims

Food: Superfood – Health Claims

[Exploring Life] The emergence of the term superfood originates in the idea that some foods [...]

Food: Superfood - Toward a Definition

Food: Superfood – Toward a Definition

[Exploring Life] What is the definition of superfood? Currently there is no specific agreement on [...]

Food: Healthy Eating Principles

Food: Healthy Eating Principles

[Exploring Life] Understanding what constitutes healthy eating has become mired in confusion and conflicting information. [...]

Food: Canadian Organic Products Regulation

Food: Canadian Organic Products Regulation

[Exploring Life] The Canadian Organic Products Regulations were first published in December of 2006. The [...]

Nutrition: Nutritionism

Nutrition: Nutritionism

[Exploring Life] Nutritionism is an ideology that promotes the belief that essential nutrients in food [...]

Food: What is Food?

Food: What is Food?

[Exploring Life] Most of what we buy in a grocery store is not food. Manufactured, [...]