- Nutrition -
Revolutionary Act 37: Ignore Labels
By Pilar GerasimoHelpful tips for making sense of dubious food-marketing claims.
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Revolutionary Act 36: Read Labels
By Pilar GerasimoPay less attention to your food’s calorie count and focus more on the ingredients.
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Revolutionary Act 35: Move It Out
By Pilar GerasimoMost of us would rather not talk about poop, but it turns out that what exits your body is just as important as what goes in.
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Revolutionary Act 34: Go for Quality, Not Quantity
By Pilar GerasimoWhen it comes to eating, an ounce of wonderful is far better than a whole mess of mediocrity.
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Revolutionary Act 33: Care Where Food Comes From
By Pilar GerasimoWhy knowing your food’s history can motivate you to consume more selectively.
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Revolutionary Act 32: Savor What You Eat
By Pilar GerasimoHow you eat is as important as what you eat. Here’s why.
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Revolutionary Act 31: Go Easy on the Sugar and Flour
By Pilar GerasimoThese two ingredients have a starring role in most packaged foods we eat. More than any other culprit, they fuel our chronic-disease epidemic.
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Revolutionary Act 30: Approach AND Dietary Guidelines With a Healthy Dose of Doubt
By Pilar GerasimoThe Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics — the country’s largest nutritional professional society — is sponsored by Big Food.
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Revolutionary Act 29: Beware the USDA Food Guidelines
By Pilar GerasimoThey’re a whole lot healthier for Big Ag and Big Business than for humans. Focus on vegetables and other whole foods, and don’t let the propaganda confuse you.
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Revolutionary Act 28: Watch Your Reactions
By Pilar GerasimoUp to 70 percent of adults are intolerant of dairy, gluten, or other dietary triggers. Learn if you’re one of them. Digestive, skin, joint, energy, and mood problems may be your first clue.
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Revolutionary Act 27: Have Breakfast
By Pilar GerasimoLet there be protein, produce, healthy fats, and fiber in it. A good breakfast wards off energy dips, brain fog, and afternoon cravings.
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Revolutionary Act 26: Learn to Cook
By Pilar GerasimoGet a dozen healthy, whole-food recipes under your belt, and your lifewill be forever changed. Start by mastering one.
- Fitness Tips -
A Better Way to Roll Your Yoga Mat
By Pilar GerasimoOur founding editor offers a quick, simple technique that will keep your mat cleaner and in better shape.
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Revolutionary Act 25: Don’t Fall for Fakery
By Pilar GerasimoProcessed ingredients, sweeteners, and chemical additives inflame your body. Here’s how to keep it real.
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Revolutionary Act 24: Eat More Plants
By Pilar GerasimoThere’s a long list of phytonutrients and other good stuff in vegetables, fruits, and legumes that you can’t get any other way. Put plants at the center of your plate for as many meals and snacks as you can.
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Revolutionary Act 23: Eat Fresh
By Pilar GerasimoTrade dead, packaged goods for foods that are fresh, alive, and full of high-vibe goodness. Figure out where to find them, learn to juice/slice/dice them, and eat them with great pleasure.
- General Health -
Revolutionary Act 22: Brush and Floss
By Pilar GerasimoYour teeth and gums are a huge determining factor in your whole-body well-being. They’re also an easy place to start demonstrating your commitment to whole-person health on a daily basis.
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Revolutionary Act 21: Keep Your Body Clean, Inside and Out
By Pilar GerasimoToxins, poisons, and other gunk have no place in the temple. Avoid artificial flavors, preservatives, colors, fragrances, petrochemicals, and other toxic ingredients whenever possible.
- Personal Development -
Taking Direction
By Pilar GerasimoFounding editor Pilar Gerasimo on the value of following your internal compass.
- General Health -
Revolutionary Act 20: Aim for 85%
By Pilar GerasimoYou don’t have to make 100% healthy choices all the time. It’s what you do most of the time — day in, day out — that counts.
- Personal Development -
Reality Reconsidered
By Pilar GerasimoFounding editor Pilar Gerasimo on recasting our current reality in hopes of tackling the seemingly impossible.