Life and wellness: The 360° view
Whether you or a loved one has a chronic illness, we created this site to foster what we call indulgent wellness.
Life is about more than just being alive: It's about thriving no matter what's happening around or inside of you. We're addressing that right here, right now, including:
- Articles on health, food, beauty & fitness
- Coaching (coming 2012) to manage chronic illness
- Tools to support a state of delicious well-being
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Low-Sugar, Highly Satisfying Valentine’s Sweets
by Melynda Saldenais | Print This Page
Because your sweetheart is sweet enough, we put together some sexy low-sugar treats to delight your better half.
Unfortunately, Valentine’s Day has a reputation as a candy, cake, cookie and chocoholic holiday, second only to Halloween. If you’re on a low-sugar eating plan or you just like to keep the white stuff in check, you might be wondering how you can celebrate.
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Brown Rice 101
Rice is the primary dietary staple for more than half the world’s population and brown rice runs at the head of the pack as a nutritional powerhouse. So even if you don’t need to remove other grains, such as wheat from your diet, adding more brown rice is a nutritional no-brainer.
Indian-style Brown Rice Vegetable Pulao with Cucumber Salad
Best made with brown basmati rice, this Indian-style pulao can use any combination of vegetables including potatoes, peppers, parsnips, mushrooms and zucchini.
Brown Rice Cranberry Salad
This quick brown rice salad is perfect as a vegetarian main course or a light summer side dish.
Should you cleanse?
Another new year. Another vow to lose the weight, eat better, get healthy. Good for you. But are you going to do it the right way? We thought we’d take a look at cleanses, which many use as a quick way to drop the pounds, and give you a little food for thought.