How Toxic is Sugar? NYT Article
Sugar is indeed toxic, and strongly linked to diabetes.
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Nutrition
Allergies – the Bathtub Effect
If you never heard of the Bathtub Effect for Allergies, I may have made it up. That doesn’t make it untrue. Here’s the issue. People have allergic symptoms and then go to an allergist to get tested. They get tested for bunches of possible allergies and come up negative on all of them. These tests typically don’t
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Mindful Eating – Better than Dieting!
Which would you prefer to do, focus restricting your portions and what you eat, or enjoy whatever food you are eating? According to a new research study, simply being mindful of what you eat is better than dieting. Being mindful means to be very present. So you don’t just take that first bite, think “Yum!”
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Seven Habits of Mindful Eating
Seven Habits of Mindful Eating
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The Most Important Foods to Eat Organic
According to our good friends at the Environmental Working Group, the foods that usually contain the most pesticides, and therefore you’d most want to buy/eat organic, are (in order of worst to least worst but still bad… the so called “dirty dozen”): Apples Celery Strawberries Peaches Spinach Nectarines ( imported) Grapes (imported) Sweet bell peppers Potatoes
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JoAnn with Pittsburgh Steelers’ Maurkice Pouncey
Pittsburgh Personal Trainer JoAnn Brickley talking with Pittsburgh Steelers first round draft pick, Maurkice Pouncey, at Hydration Health and Fitness. Click photos for larger images.
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What We Eat
Many people ask me what I eat. I hope you find this helpful. -JoAnn Fresh. Organic. Unprocessed. Whole. Every body is different. We all have individual needs for a particular amount of carbohydrates, protein and fat. It is your job to discover what ideal percentages of those macro nutrients work for your body. To meet