4PM Crash? Veggies, Protein and Fat to the Rescue!

While I don’t have a statistic as to the number of people who have a 4PM, or thereabout, blood sugar crash, resulting in a trip to the local cafe for a milkshake (aka ‘blended, iced coffee drink) and a piece of cake (the seemingly benign little muffin), I’d  be willing to bet it’s more common […]

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Veggies Equal Love…And It’s Been Proven!

I absolutely loved a little article in a recent IDEA publication, entitled “Serving Up Veggies = Serving Up Love”. According to the piece, in a recent study, published  by Public Health Nutrition researchers discovered that meal preparers were rated higher on qualities such as “loving,” “thoughtful,” “attentive” and “capable” when they included vegetables with the […]

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Strawberry Tops, Broccoli Stalks & Chard Stems

Why is it that we automatically throw the greens on the top of a strawberry, the stalks of broccoli or the sweet, tender stems of Swiss Chard away? Well, I used to do that, to be completely honest. I have no idea who I saw just eat the red of the strawberry or the ‘tree’ […]

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Recover With High Protein Pasta?

This, unfortunately, was the title of an article on active.com recently. While some of the facts stated early on in the piece, such as the good old stand-by of “carbohydrates are the preferred energy source in the body” and “athletes training competitively on successive days need to consume a diet of 60 – 70 % […]

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