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Sugar is like glitter. The delicious gift that keeps on giving, right? It’s EVERYWHERE and in EVERYTHING! At first you love it, then you just want it to go away, but it won’t! What is sugar anyways? Sugar comes in many forms with many different names. Wikipedia defines sugar as a sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrate, many…

Don’t we all want to have our cake and eat it too? Or, drink a soda that tastes like the real thing but has zero calories and guilt? Oddly enough, you can, but at what cost? Artificial or high-intensity sweeteners are a synthetically produced sweetening agents used to provide a sweet taste to foods and…

Do you know your blood pressure number? If you have high blood pressure you’re not alone. Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure with many of them not even knowing they have it. The best way to know if you do have high blood pressure is to have it checked by your doctor.…

You’ve heard the term before “you are what you eat,” right? While we won’t actually turn into a donut or a burger and fries, what we put into our body can affect us in more ways than one. It’s important to pay attention to what you eat and how much you eat because at the…

Making the transition from the way our parents cooked and their parents cooked can be difficult at times because who can resist fried chicken, homemade bread and buttery mashed potatoes? Cooking healthy doesn’t mean you have to give up all of your favorite foods or ways to cook them. You’re in luck! There are ways…

You know that feeling you get when you find a cool, new recipe then realize you have only one ingredient on hand, none of the fancy and weird gadgets needed or the two-hour time frame it takes to make it? The same feelings can be felt when starting an fitness program or any type of…

A Calorie or kilocalories (kcal) is a unit of measurement given to the amount of energy your body generates from the food you eat. The human body uses this energy for all our daily functions like breathing, talking, walking, digesting, our heat beat, and yes, exercise! So how many calories you consume can either help…

Do you ever find yourself hungry and staring blankly at the inside of your fridge wondering what to eat that’s healthy, will taste good and will satisfy your cravings? I know I find myself in this predicament more than I would like. But what if you could open your fridge, grab a perfectly placed container…

Are you one to turn your nose up to a plate of broccoli or do you gag when someone says, “brussels sprouts?” We know who you are; you’re a picky eater and have a very selective palate, right? As an adult having a selective food palate but wanting to get healthy and change to a…

With all the “trend diets” that are popping up all over your social media pages, it’s no wonder why many people struggle to lose weight. Not to mention many weight-loss TV shows are shown promoting excess exercise and a very restricted diet plan to lose large amounts of weight in a very short amount of…