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Reading Time: 2 minutes When it comes to making tasty meals for your family, you probably know that ingredients matter. From vitamins and nutrients to sugar and acidity, it’s important to know what you’re using in your recipes at every meal and how each ingredient can impact all parts of the body.
To help understand how ingredients matter and how quality ingredients can keep your body healthy, consider these tips from a registered dietitian, celebrity nutritionist and healthy cooking expert Keri Glassman, MS, RDN.
Reading Time: 6 minutes This leafy green gives you more nutritional value – with fewer calories – than just about any other food or vegetable!
It contains more than 45 different flavonoids – such as quercetin – which provide both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. Because of this, eating your kale will do its part to help you limit the discomfort of chronic inflammations.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Some people find that natural remedies for pain just don’t pack the punch of drugs, while others find that they work even better. Often the results are more subtle, or take a little more time to be felt. But you can be sure that the anti-inflammatory activity is happening.
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by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 4 minutes It was a real breakthrough for me to discover that coffee and a scone was just about the worst breakfast I could eat. The resulting blood sugar spike felt great – for about an hour. The subsequent plunge felt like an evil plot to set me up for a day of binge eating and frustration as I swung between falling asleep at my desk and reaching for another sugar boost.