The unmistakable smell of ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, mingled together in just the right combination. The sound of grandmother’s humming as a spoon gently clanks against the bowl. The feeling of warmth that wafts over my face as I open the oven to check on a batch of gingerbread. Little fingers covered with batter, tested while no one is looking.

In the back-to-school hustle and bustle it is all too easy to forget the most important tool your child has for learning: the brain. While it might seem like enough to just get that brain into the classroom, without the proper nutrition, a growing child will have trouble focusing, concentrating, comprehending, and retaining information.

Where would we be without the honeybee?

February is American Heart Month, and while you’ll no doubt see and hear a lot about the heart this month, it is but one piece of the whole picture of cardiovascular health. Of equal importance is the intricate system of arteries, veins, and capillaries—collectively called the blood vessels—that put the vascular in cardiovascular.

What a new understanding of cardiovascular health means for your own heart health

Remember when you were young and everything seemed so simple, and was accepted without question? Storks delivered babies, Santa brought the toys, and we all lived happily ever after.

Discover new flours for making your baking delicious AND healthy

Flour. Where would we be without it? We use it to bread our meats, thicken our sauces, bake our cookies, and otherwise fill our bellies, but most of us have a love-hate relationship with flour.

Have you had your 17 heaping teaspoons of added sugar today? The average American consumes around 60 pounds of refined sugar per year!¹ In excess, refined sugar can be toxic, plain and simple. Artificial sweeteners are even more so. Our bodies were not designed to cope with the enormous quantities of sugar we routinely ingest.