Food & Nutrition

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4 Ways to Replace Candy on Halloween

  Halloween is one of the BIGGEST candy days of the year! Let's be real when you were a kid what were you looking forward to most when Halloween finally...

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Sugar: The Enemy of All Ages

Sugar is known to lead to heart disease, obesity, and high blood sugar in adults. But did you know the risk of these diseases increases the more you eat sugar...

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Sneaky Sugars and How to Find Them

  80% of grocery foods have added sugar! Most of these foods are mainstream or easy foods such as Mac’n Cheese. But there are other foods you wouldn't think have...

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How to Read a Nutrition Label

The road to becoming health conscious has its many steep hills to climb. One of these hills is learning how to read a nutrition label. At first glance, a nutrition...

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Fructose: The Worst Sugar

Today, everyone is seeking for the perfect ‘diet.’ In America, the popular diet is low carb, while in Japan it is high carb. In both countries, people are losing weight...

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Understanding the Glycemic Index

If you have or know someone diagnosed with diabetes, you know of the Glycemic Index (GI). The GI helps diabetics to maintain stable blood sugar levels. Yet, more and more...