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HOLIDAY FEAST HELP
With the holidays coming up and Thanksgiving in less than a week the question may arise as to what challenges this will pose to your healthy eating. Thanksgiving is not famous for healthy eating. Sure the turkey is packed full of protein and there may be green beans or other vegetables. Then again there is pie and macaroni and cheese and all that other stuff that is good for your taste but not your waist. What do you do? Well you can be bold and avoid all those foods and eat clean. So while your family enjoys that entire feast you will enjoy turkey, steamed broccoli and…ok I’ll stop now because this doesn’t sound like much fun.The thing is some people can avoid all this and eat clean. They should be celebrated. The greater … Read entire article »
Filed under: NUTRITION
NOT SO DIET…DRINKS
So usually when people want to lose weight or want to avoid gaining weight they turn to diet drinks. The most popular being diet soft drinks which are in most every case sweetened with some type of artificial sweetener instead of sugar or corn syrup. This is a huge break from waist expanding sugar filled calorie bomb that soft drinks can be. However they may not necessarily be a better choice. It has long been suspected that diet drinks can actually lead to weight gain. A study put out in June 2011 by The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio found that an astonishing 70% of test subjects had a greater waist circumference than the non diet drink group. (It should be noted that this is not stating the … Read entire article »
Filed under: HEALTH
WHAT IS A VEGETABLE?
Recently the United States Congress, that group of EDUCATED lawmakers that we trust to manage our country, declared that…ready for it…tomato paste on frozen school pizza put it in the vegetable catagory. I’ll wait while you process that and utter “HUH??” Read about it here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-wartman/pizza-is-a-vegetable_b_1101433.html By the way, when you get to the part that tells you what is in the pizza sauce, NTSS stands for Natural Tomato Soluble Solids. Yummy! And these are the people we trust to run a country and conduct war. Note to Congress, this is a stupid ruling. Note to Congress, a tomato is a fruit Suggestion to Congress, Funyuns should be a vegetable too and Cherry Coke should be a fruit. … Read entire article »
Filed under: FEATURED
HELP SAVE ANIMALS
