Apple cider vinegar has been used as a household remedy to a variety of issues for years. It can bring a plethora of benefits to pre-diabetics and people at risk of developing type-2 diabetes. It also carries benefits for skin health, cholesterol, and so much more. Although, the taste of apple cider is not appealing…
Fresh juices should be an important part of your kids’ diet as they are both nutritious and healthy. But do your kids want to drink them without sugar? Do you succumb to adding sugar just to make them drink their juices? There are endless health benefits of fruits and vegetables for kids, but most kids…
We all know that fruits and veggies are some of the healthiest foods out there. Perhaps you don’t particularly like the flavor of some of them, but you still eat them because you know how beneficial they are. Maybe you add vinegar or olive oil to your salads to make them taste better, but all…
Type 2 diabetes has long been regarded as a lifestyle disease. Lifestyle diseases, unlike infectious diseases, are ones that are caused by daily habits including poor eating, physical inactivity, and disturbed biological rhythms. These have become a huge concern around the world, not only in the United States. Type 2 diabetes has become a global…
Today, we are looking at a worldwide population that is expected to exceed 9.5 billion in the next thirty years. That means production of food will need to increase by at least 60 percent in order to feed that population. At last March’s Future Food-Tech Summit in San Francisco, this was a conversation that participants…
What if the solution to obesity and diabetes was wrapped up in a small, natural berry? What if we no longer needed processed sugars to enhance our foods? This is not science fiction. It is reality. It is called the miracle berry or, as it is scientifically known, synsepalum dulcificum. Our Answer to Sugar? Dr.…
Many of the food products we use today are cultivated in other areas of the world. But for many of these items, farmers or workers were not always paid a fair wage for their labor or their product. Many of these farmers have faced incredible hardships trying to earn a fair living and care for…
Throughout history, we’ve heard many conspiracy theories from outlandish to credible. But the one involving the miracle berry and the FDA may not have made it across your radar. In fact, a berry conspiracy sounds rather dull, unless, of course, it has kept many people away from a natural sweetener that could reduce our dependency…
America’s relationship with sugar has been one of contradictions. Once only available to the wealthy, it now makes up nearly 20 percent of our modern diet leading to our current epidemic of diabetes and obesity. Once Upon a Time, Only the Wealthy Could Afford Sugar In 1992, archaeologists opened a coffin of a woman in…
The miracle berry is getting noticed in other areas of the world which is a great thing to see. In northern Queensland, Australia, a couple has started growing the country’s first commercial crop of miracle berries after discovering a bush on their property several years ago. Accidental Farmers Chris Beckwith and his partner Karen Pereira…