November 2014

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Nov

10 Delicious Thanksgiving Recipes… and they’re healthy too!

Does anyone really like that green bean casserole?  You know the one, smothered in mushroom soup and topped with durkee onions? I’ve got some recipes I absolutely love for Thanksgiving, and they’ve become delightful traditions that are tastier and healthier than some of the classic recipes we’ve known over the years. Vitality Code-Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes Try them out. Let me

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5
Nov

257 Names for Sugars & Artificial Sweeteners

Sugar is getting a bum wrap. Sugar not evil. Sugar is a viable source of energy, but when not used immediately it turns to fat. The key is to find a healthy balance between how much sugar you intake on a daily basis and how much you burn in the form of movement and exercise. The challenge is that the

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5
Nov

The Top 10 Ways To Cut Back on Sugar

a great common-sense article from nutritionist, Jonny Bowden. Tattoo this under your eyelids: Sugar turns to fat. Not only that, research in the past decade has implicated sugar in cancer, gout, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Sugar is inflammatory, and inflammation is now believed (correctly) to be at the heart of every degenerative disease we know of. And it’s no

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5
Nov

Sugar is _____________________ [Fill in the blank]

Sweet! A great source of energy Getting a bad wrap BUT… sugar also is ________________________ An inflammatory food (and inflammation is linked to just about every disease known to man) 8 times more addictive than cocaine Hidden in almost every food we eat Driving up the average caloric intake of Americans and making us fat When I did triathlon, we

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