Nutrition 101

  • Cinnamon

    Cinnamon

    Adding Cinnamon to foods is a great way to bring out the sweetness that's already in it instead of adding extra sugar!

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  • Energy Drinks

    Energy Drinks

    They come with a lot of clever catch phrases and promises of "healthy energy", but most of them are full of high fructose corn syrup,…

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  • Do You Know Your Fiber?

    Do You Know Your Fiber?

    How Much Dietary Fiber Do You Need? 25 grams for women under 50 and teenage girls.  Teenage boys and men under 50 (who consume more…

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  • Food Addiction

    Food Addiction

    David Linden, Ph. d., a professor of Neuroscience at John Hopkins University, has done research on food and how it affects the pleasure centers of…

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  • Sugar: The Sweetest Poison Part I

    Sugar: The Sweetest Poison Part I

    What do you think of when you think of sugar? Most of us think the white granules we add to coffee, sprinkle over our cereal…

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  • Sugar: The Sweetest Poison Part 2

    Sugar: The Sweetest Poison Part 2

    This brings us into the turn of the century.  Roughly 75 million Americans have Metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance), and chances are if you have a…

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  • Supplements

    Supplements

    Should you take supplements?  Chances are you should. Now I'm not saying you should run out and get every product on the shelf, but here…

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