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The garlic clove is revered for its health-giving nutrients. For centuries, garlic has been used as powerful medicine and zesty flavour enhancer. Read more!

For the Love of Garlic | Food & Wellness Magazine | Alive Magazine

Do we really eat healthier in the summer than the winter? Follow along with us in this article as we explore the link between the seasons and our eating habits.

Healthy Eating Tips for the Holidays

Eating Healthy

Natural is the way. We bring you credible approaches to preventative health, holistic treatments, and supportive supplements.

Health

When metabolic flexibility is impaired, it can lead to health problems such as insulin resistance. But simple lifestyle changes can help.

What is Metabolic Flexibility?

Metabolism

Sole Food, a unique urban street farm venture, has grown into a thriving multi-farm enterprise employing local residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Sole Food: Urban Street Farms Sow Seeds of Hope | alive

Urban Farming

Life is about balance. We provide you with strategies for a lifelong commitment to strength and well-being in all areas of your life. 

Lifestyle

The new way to nourishment is through letting go of unrealistic expectations and boundaries. Go ahead—feel good about eating these healthy indulgences.

Healthy Indulgences: 5 Virtue-Meets-Vice Recipes to Eat Sans Guilt | alive

Comfort Foods

Being extra busy can send your stress levels—and weight—sky-high. Try these simple strategies to stress less for a healthier brain and body.

Stress Less to Make Both Your Brain and Body Healthier | alive

Weight Management

Energizing lunches provide the perfect combination of protein and carbs to satisfy your hunger and get you through the rest of the afternoon.

Lunch

Flaxseed oil is one of the richest plant-based sources of an omega-3 fat known as alpha-linolenic acid (ALA).

Managing blood sugar levels is at the very heart of preventing diabetes. One of the best ways to do that is to adopt diet habits that focus on whole, plant&#x2d;based foods. Read on for some of the best foods for diabetes prevention and some alive&#x2d;worthy recipes to incorporate them into your diet.

Detoxification

If you’ve ever embarked upon an intense detox protocol that left you feeling weak, irritable, and wondering why you chose to put yourself through this misery, you might not have had your nutritional basics in place! Here are key nutrients for metabolic detoxification.

detox

While globalization in our food systems may have provided solutions in decades past, it’s also resulted in homogeneous diets, reduced local economies, uncertain supply chains, and environmental repercussions. How can we sustainably produce food for a growing population?

food security

Protect our planet better. Sustainability is the foundation of natural health. We teach you how to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle, one step at a time, because a healthier planet means a healthier you.

Sustainability

Compared to year&#x2d;round sourcing of food from far&#x2d;flung locales, the benefits of eating more locally and seasonally are pretty compelling. Explore practical ways to bring a more place&#x2d;based ethic to your diet.

Eating Locally

Fat, protein, and carbs have all had their turn being vilified throughout diet culture. Yet this powerful triad of nutrients, together with essential vitamins and minerals, is what our body relies on to thrive.

In From the Hill by the Sea: A Cookbook & Memoir, chef Seadon Shouse shares recipes and memories, taking readers on a culinary journey that educates them about the cuisine of his Nova Scotian youth, all the while cooking from the land and sea with heart and soul.

home cooking

The future of farming marries old and new practices to feed a growing population in a way that benefits the planet like never before.

Organic Farming

Composting helps to keep food waste out of landfills. By composting food waste at home, we can create a rich natural fertilizer that's good for the garden.

vegetables

Perpetual Edibles

For the Love of Garlic

Season’s Eatings

Metabolic Flexibility

Soul Food in the City

A New Kind of Healthy

Stress Less …

Loving the Earth and You, Too

Hot right now

Energizing Lunches

Herbal healing

5 Eating Strategies to Help Look on The Bright Side

Fabulous Flaxseed Oil

The 8 Best Plant Foods for Diabetes Prevention

The Truth About Carbohydrates: The Link Between Carbs and Weight Loss

Detox Myths, Debunked

Feeding Metabolic Detox

Sustainable Nutrition

Keeping It Local While Keepin’ It Real

The Whole (Food) Picture

From the Sea to the Plate

Cultivating Sustainability

Hungry For Change

Dishing Up the Dirt About Compost