My Road To a Healthier Lifestyle

When I grew up, we were told that avocados should not be eaten in large quantities because they were too fatty. And we believed that!  Whatsoever we were told, do you know if avocados are healthy for you? Or are avocados a fruit or a vegetable? You are about to find out some interesting facts about this powerhouse of energy food.

5 Interesting Facts About Avocados

1) We use avocados in our salads, soups, on our bread as a vegetable. However, avocado is a fruit and not a vegetable. Botanically it belongs to the berry family because it is a large fruit with a single seed, which grows, depending on the variety, on trees up to 16 m in height. Some know avocados as the alligator pear because of its skin similarities with alligators. [...]  Read more...

Have you ever questioned yourself: Why are onions healthy if you smell not too good for some time after eating them? And they have such a strong and spicy flavor, how could they be healthy? Or maybe you just do not like the crisp taste of raw onions, because you cannot chew on them very well because of their texture?

And maybe this is the food that your child does not want by any means in their food. And maybe you strongly dislike the aftertaste of this vegetable?

If you like or dislike this easy-to-have-vegetable, you will find out some interesting facts about one of my all-time favorite vegetable. I believe onions are the most known vegetable in the whole world and they were well-known thousands of years and have been used by most cultures around the worlds. [...]  Read more...

Tomatoes are the fruit that is rejected by children (and probably adults sometimes too) most of the time. Anytime I observe children eat, tomatoes are among the first things they would rather not eat.

Maybe it is not because of their taste, but because their friends have told them they do not taste good. However, we keep telling children that tomatoes are healthy and want them to eat them. But are there any health benefits to this fruit? You are about to find out in this article.

A Little About The History of Tomatoes

Before I talk about why tomatoes are healthy, I want to share a little of the history of this fruit, which is a rather mysterious one. [...]  Read more...

Lately, I have been pondering about the effects on refined and processed sugars in our bodies and I also made an experiment with consuming more sugars and then cutting them 100% out of my diet.

The results of this experiment are unbelievable to me, yet I found them to be true. The question that I asked after the experiment is if sugar makes me tired or what the reason for my exhaustion was. And I came to the conclusion that sugar is the reason for that.

I had been eating sugar-free for around 35 days. Now, I cannot say if there was not one gram of refined sugars in the ingredients of my food, but I prepared the food at home and knew what was in it. That was just before the Christmas season. [...]  Read more...

Spinach is a green, leafy vegetable that is packed with health benefits, which I will be discussing in this article.

You have probably asked many times: Is Spinach healthy or is it really as healthy as it is said to be? I had wondered about this question too, and I have come to the conclusion that there are definitely many reasons to eat spinach on a daily basis.

After doing some research over time about spinach, I can say that it is actually one of my favorite vegetables because of the benefits I have from eating it. It took me some time to get used to eating so many leafy greens as I currently do. My first 25 years of life were marked by eating literally no leafy vegetables at all. They just did not taste good nor did we have them in our house regularly. I would eat a little of lettuce here and there with my burgers, but that was it. And salads were rarely on our table and nobody asked us to eat them. [...]  Read more...