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Sugar or Salt: Which Has a Greater Impact on Your Health?

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What’s worse for your body, sugar or salt? This post from Women’s Health moves toward settling this once and for all! These days, the saying "everything in moderation" has become a battle cry for healthy eaters everywhere—but when it comes to sugar and salt, many of us just can't help ourselves. Even though both play several essential roles in our health (the brain needs sugar ... Continue Reading

How Your Brain Responds When You Give Up Sugar

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If you give up sugar for Lent, this post from CNN has insights on what you can expect over the next 40 days. Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania -- the "Chocolate Capital of the World" -- doesn't help either of us. But Andrew is ... Continue Reading

There’s Copious Amounts of Glyphosate in Our Foods!

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This report shows millions are being poisoned by Monsanto’s glyphosate that has ended up in processed foods like Cheerios, Ritz Crackers, and Oreos across the world! This post from Food Babe reveals how Monsanto is scrambling to bury this breaking story and why you shouldn’t let this go unshared! I am frankly shocked this information is not making front page news right ... Continue Reading

The 10 Best Health and Fitness Books of 2015

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Make the most of your holiday downtime with top of the line health and fitness books of 2015. Here are our favorites for fueling your physique and nourishing your mind and spirit in 2016. 1. Bulletproof: The Cookbook by Dave Asprey While we wait for Bulletproof’s global takeover, we’ll be busy incorporating Dave Asprey’s unique approach to healthy eating (like, oh, steaming ... Continue Reading

The 7 Health Foods That Aren’t Really Healthy

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With seven so-called health foods turning out to be not-really-healthy, check out if you’re as virtuous a snacker as you consider yourself to be. This article from The Huffington Post puts together a list of seven snacks that are supposed to be healthy but aren’t, along with their healthier alternatives. Turns out, lots of so-called health foods are hiding way more bad-for-you ... Continue Reading

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