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Latest Articles
5 Diet “Traps” to Avoid
Maybe you’re trying to be a little healthier, or maybe you’re just looking to lose a few pounds. Whatever the reason for changes in your diet, there are…
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Gardening Could Reduce Stress Levels
We know the foods we eat can have a positive effect on our health, but what about growing our own food? Is there any real benefit to growing…
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Fruits vs Vegetables
Fruits and vegetables are generally paired together, but they aren’t all that similar. Yes, they both are plant products, but grains are also…
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Imagine skipping the busy lines at the grocery store checkout and just walking outside to pick your dinner. For some, this is a reality, but for most of us, it’s not that easy.
But what if you could grow your own produce, even if you live in the heart of the city.
Growing your own produce may be appealing, but not everyone lives in a rural neighbourhood with the space to raise a veggie patch. It is a lot harder for someone in a high-rise apartment downtown to grow their own food, but it isn’t impossible.
Picture yourself standing on the roof of an apartment building. You’re surrounded by thriving vegetation. There are barrels filled with hearty stalks of curly kale, baskets growing a variety of leafy greens, and staked tomato and eggplant bushes. This is becoming increasingly common as the urban jungle continues to grow and urban farmers gain more support
Urban farming is on the rise, but it isn’t a new concept. The notion of producing agriculture near where you live is an old idea, not a new one…Read More
Recent News
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Diets Do Work!
There always seems to be a new diet in the news. A new promise that’ll be a game changer in a shorter amount of time, or will let you eat all of your…
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Canadians At Greater Risk Of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases?
Inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis have become increasingly common lately, but is this largely a Canadian problem?
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Gluten Not to Blame For Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity
Gluten has been blamed for a lot over the last few years. It’s been linked to asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and non-coeliac gluten…
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Probiotic Supplements Aren’t Effective
Gut health is a key component of overall health. We know that our gut needs to get probiotics for a good balance of healthy gut bacteria, but probiotic…
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Growing A Food Forest
This is one of the coolest ideas we’ve heard of in a while. We love community gardens because they give people a space where they can get their hands…
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Low-Fat Guidelines Jumped The Gun
Fat got a bad rap. While you probably already knew this, the reasons for the low-fat dietary guidelines are continuing to be exposed for their lack of…
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The Rise Of Allergies
Are food allergies more common these days than in previous generations? Is it because we’re exposed to new foods, or have foods changed causing…
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New App Helps IBS Patients
We’re living in the age of technology, and now it’s easier than ever to monitor your health with apps tailored to diet and exercise…
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Are You Risking Multiple Sclerosis?
We know that there are many health risks from being overweight, heart disease and diabetes to name but a few. Obesity is often associated with…
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Maximize Your Brain Power One Step At A Time
We know the stereotype, jocks are dumb and brainiacs are terrible at anything remotely athletic. While some people may be better at team sports…
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Your Food May Not Be As Local As You Think
There has been a large push over recent years to eat local, and for good reason. Besides supporting local farmers, from an environmental standpoint…
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Vitamin D May Not Be As Important As We Thought
A recent research study out of the University of Alberta is concluding that there is little to no effect from taking daily vitamin D supplements…
Good Whole Food Origin Story
We found ourselves scratching our heads back in 2012. I (Tom) had been rushed to the emergency room with a series of very painful stomach pains that no ultrasound or doctor could make sense of. After the third terrifying visit I began to realize this needed some serious attention. At roughly the same time my wife discovered that our son, who had a runny and stuffed up nose from birth, could get it all cleared up by removing gluten from his diet. This was days after a doctor suggested we give him allergy medicine for the rest of his life. So if doctors could have missed the connection between a runny nose and diet with my son, were they missing the connection between my stomach pain and diet? This question led to a 12-month journey of pouring through books, podcasts, research, trials and errors that ultimately changed our views. We managed to fix my stomach pains and continued our education of food, nutrition and diet. And the more we researched, the more questions it raised.
Nick has been an avid fan of hitting the gym for a morning workout for years. He loves strength, power and Olympic lifts, and is a cross-fitter too. Over the years he’s experimented with tons of supplements to tweak his body, his workouts, and his results. Together our interest in food and nutrition has led us to test out tons of foods, to do live-blood cell analysis, to pay for food intolerance tests, and investigate countless vitamins and supplements. We run another business together, have families, and generally, like most, lead fairly stressful, time-constrained lives.
The more we’ve learned the more we have questioned our past beliefs around what we eat and the impact it can have on our lives. Could our diet help us not only fix basic problems with our health, but could it makes us perform better? Think faster? Work even more efficiently? How would we accomplish this? How does someone really and truly eat well? Do we take vitamins, or do we eat real food to get the vitamins we need? Do supplements have a role in our health or not? Can we really eat fat and lose weight, or is that just the latest fad too? Could we not only eat food to survive … could we eat a diet that would make us THRIVE? Welcome to GoodWholeFood.com and our journey of discovery…