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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 calories than women) require upwards of 30-38 grams of dietary fiber daily.
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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 the brain.  What his research has discovered is that when a lean person sees and smells food, they only get a weak stimulus in the pleasure center of the brain…
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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 or put in when we make cookies.  In reality, that is only a tiny fraction of the sugar that we consume in our lives.  In this article, we'll go over…
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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 heart attack, you have Metabolic syndrome.  This brought research back to the topic of sugar and found that feeding someone a diet full of sugar had a "very obvious, very…
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