Eat Well

Living the Sustainable Life

Deborah Niemann educates others about how to live a sustainable life and recently released a book, Homegrown & Homemade: a practical guide to more self-reliant living.

Helping Clients Find Daily Digestive Relief

Renee Barasch, owner of Nutritional Health Solutions, in Highland Park and a certified digestive health specialist and enzyme therapist, helps clients to improve digestive and overall health through the use of enzyme therapy.

What Price Do We Really Pay for Produce?

Barry Estabrook’s new book, Tomatoland, will make it hard to ever look at the popular fruit in the same way again.

The Chicago Homegrown Cookbook

A Celebration of Chicagoland’s Local, Year-Round Harvest

The Chicago Homegrown Cookbook is a celebration of the local food scene that gives respect to farmers that realize people care about where their food comes from.

Natural Ways to Age Gracefully

Chinese medicine expert Anatoliy Pak, owner of Healing Arts of Oriental Medicine, of Deerfield, highlights a few simple changes women can make to enhance their outer beauty, as well as their inner beauty.

Glenview Farmers’ Market

Glenview New Church will host an indoor farmers’ market from, sponsored by Faith in Place.

A Farmers’ Market in November?

Shoppers can purchase food and natural beauty products at a farmer's markets in Atherton Hall at Countryside Unitarian Universalist Church, in Palatine.

Chicago VeganMania Returns with Speakers, Demos

Celebrate at Chicago VeganMania, a free event dedicated to vegan culture, commerce, community, cuisine and couture at the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse, in Chicago.

Nutritional Health Solutions Moves to New Highland Park Location

Beginning November 1, Nutritional Health Solutions will move to their new location at 480 Elm Place, Suite 108, in Highland Park.

Improve Your Snooze

Sleep Aids versus Sleep Sappers

Can what we eat help us enjoy better sleep? Yes, says our panel of experts—see which foods, drinks and supplements they recommend to ease your zzz’s.

Backyard Gardening

How to Get a Lot From Your Plot

Whether this is your first year growing a kitchen garden or your thumb glows green from years of use, it’s possible to quickly turn dreams of bountiful organic harvests into a reality.

A Flexitarian Diet for a Flexible Life

On Your Mark, Get Set, Flex

There’s a new term in town, ‘flexitarian’, which gives us a handle on what many of us are likely doing anyway; we are inclined to eat less meat and more plant foods, but not ready to completely give up chicken or the occasional burger.

Nutrition for Breast Health

Food Choices are Big Factor in Preventative Breast Health

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, prompting many studies about the possibilities for preventive breast health through a healthy lifestyle that incorporates good nutrition and regular exercise.

The Edible Schoolyard

Revolutionizing Classes and Cuisine Across America

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches may be a lunchtime mainstay for many schoolchildren—along with other cafeteria fare of questionable nutrition and taste. Or worse, soda, snacks and candy from a hallway vending machine. But better, more healthy alternatives are on the horizon, thanks in part to the vision of renowned restaurateur Alice Waters.

Satisfying Summer Smoothies

Get a Whole Day's Fruit Quota in One Delicious Shake-me-up

Fruit smoothies have come of age and gone main stream to the point that they now rival coffees as a daily drink of choice. They’re quick, portable, filling and, of course, naturally nutritious.

Another Strike Against Saturated Fat

Brain Hit with Saturated Fats Fails to Signal the Body to Stop Eating

Why Junk Food Is Aging

The Side Effects of Drinking Soda

Nutty Help for Diabetes

A Healthy Replacement for Carbohydrates

Olive Oil Protects the Liver

Benefits of this Healthy Fat

For Love and Heart

A Delicious Way to Keep Heart Disease at Bay

Celery as Nutrition Staple

Advantages to Eating This Crunchy Green