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Don’t Eat Enough Greens? Here’s The Solution

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Do you know how many people are consuming the recommended 5 or more servings of vegetables each day?

If you guessed not many, you are correct…

  • Less than 1% of men & 4% of women ages 18 to 24
  • Less than 6% of men & 9% of women ages 25 to 34
  • Less than 14% of men & 16% of women ages 35 to 49
  • Less than 24% of men & 22% of women ages 50 to 64

Basically, almost everyone (including me some times) is coming up short…

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Is Honey Bad For You, or Good? The Sweet Truth Revealed

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“Sugar is sugar is sugar is sugar.”

You may have heard this mantra repeated again and again by a variety of health coaches and low-carb advocates, including us…

But not all sugars are created exactly equal.

“What about honey? Is that okay?” is a very commonly asked question at our Eat by Design seminars.

First off, let’s define what we mean by ‘okay’.

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Do You Get Sugar Cravings? It Might Be The Aliens In Your Gut…

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Okay, so maybe not Ridley Scott’s aliens, but there are definitely foreign puppeteers pulling the strings from inside your body.

The good news is that they are fairly happy to coexist with you, instead of bursting out of your chest like Porky Pig at the end of a Bugs Bunny cartoon…

You’re probably aware that there are trillions of bacteria that live in your stomach and intestines, but their importance and influence in maintaining your overall health may not have been highlighted to you…

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