Compass Rose Nutrition & Wellness
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With Gaylene Gomez
Since you all loved my Sparkling Lemonade Recipe (click if you didn't see it yet), I thought I would share with you another warm weather favorite of mine. This recipe was from my mother in law, and gets tweaked a little bit each time I make it.
Is it time to admit you have had ENOUGH chocolate eggs, bunnies and chicks? For many people, the sugar roller coaster has made for a very long weekend.
Sugar can be very hard on our bodies, in many ways. There are studies which report the average American consumes well over 100 pounds of sugar per year!!! Aside from our regular daily intake, holiday weekends like this don't help with our healthy eating plans. If you need some convincing to toss the rest of that chocolate away, here's just a few tidbits on sugar.
Have you been hearing lots lately that fats are good for you? Well, it's true! Kind of. Let me explain.
When we say the word fat- many people immediately think of all the yucky foods that make us fat, and put on a couple of inches on our hips. Because fat has gotten a bad name, there are all kinds of low fat diets and word has spread that we should all reduce our fat intake. But that's not necessarily the case. There are many different kinds of fats, from all different foods and SOME of them are healthy- and in fact, necessary for our bodies to stay healthy such as Fatty Acids- you have probably heard that Omega 3 Fats are healthy (its true). So, avoiding fats of all kinds is not a good solution to health, or weight loss.
When you hear about fats such as soluble, trans fats, saturated, healthy fats, bad fats, it can be really confusing! Let me try clear it up a little bit more.
