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One of the most popular trends taking the main stage in beauty and health lifestyles is activated charcoal.

Due to activated charcoals potent, natural way of trapping toxins within our body and allowing them to be flushed out, its mainly used during drug overdoses or poisonings. However, activated charcoal is making its way into beauty and health products, and for good reasons.

Sugar, a beautiful treatment for those emotional moments in our lives, but it can come with a price.

What’s sad, and scary, about sugar is that it can be addictive – to the point where it’s compared to cocaine and other addictive drugs.

Along with that, we know that a sugar overload can lead to obesity, which in turn can lead to other health issues in the future – such as heart disease, diabetes, and an increased risk of cancer.

If you’re aware of the risks of consuming a large amount of sugar on a daily basis and have tried to cut it out completely, but have failed, fear no more. Cutting anything “cold turkey” is difficult, so to start off simple, consider these five ways of slowly cutting out sugar in your lifestyle.

In addition to your New Year’s goals and resolutions, it’s time to watch out for the New Year’s superfoods. 

While kale, acai and activated charcoal aren’t going anywhere any time soon, they’re so 2016! 

There are a whole new slew of superfoods for you to stock in your cupboard, and you can start with these 5:

With every winter comes the pumpkin craze.  The pumpkin spice lattes come out, the pumpkin muffins and pumpkin breads arrive, the pumpkins and squash show up in the grocery store and at the farmers market to roast for dinner and the cans of pumpkin go on sale at the supermarket. 

And if you’re like me, you never get tired of it, and more than that, you’re always up for new ways to incorporate it into your diet.

Here are 7 creative, healthy ways to use pumpkin that you may have never thought of: 

If you’ve read about raw food diets, seen the pictures of all the pretty food and heard about the amazing health benefits of incorporating raw food into your every day routine, you may be thinking it’s time you give it a try. 

If that’s the case, here are 5 things to do to ensure your diet is successful and tasty: