Tag: diabetes
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Decoding Processed Foods: What Americans Get Wrong About Healthy and Unhealthy Dietary Choices
I recently read a study by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which shocked me: 39 percent of U.S. adults believe ALL processed foods are bad for our health. Consumers overlook a broad spectrum of dietary choices ranging from minimally processed vegetables to ultra-processed snacks because they’re uncertain of the differences between the two. This…
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Demystifying Sucrose Intolerance with CSID Diagnosis
If you said to me five years ago that I wouldn’t be able to eat sugar without extreme GI symptoms I probably wouldn’t have believed a thing you were telling me. I have always been the kid with a hidden candy stash and any time we went to the grocery store I begged my mom…
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Fiber: What’s the Deal? And Why Should We Eat More?
If you aren’t following news of America’s “fiber-intake gap” then you might be living under a rock, just kidding, of course! I’ve been learning a lot in my nutrition coursework at CSU about the importance of fiber and all of the roles it can play in our digestive system and overall health. One of my…
Sugar and Starch Free, No Problem 