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7 Things You Should Know About Nightshade Veggies

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So we’re kind of embarrassed to admit but we’ve just learned about nightshade plants. Now, don’t get us wrong, we’ve heard the term before and knew that eggplants were in the category of nightshade foods, but we always thought their…
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The Big 10: Which Vitamin Supplements Should You Really Take?

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There’s a lot of mixed information out there about whether vitamin supplements are really necessary, or if you should rely on the food you eat to fill your nutritional needs. Of course, vitamin and mineral supplements are not a replacement…
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5 New Food Inventions That are Even Crazier than the Cronut

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Just as we were trying to become bikini ready, here comes June 6, National Donut Day. Held the first Friday of each June, National Donut Day was established in 1938 by the Salvation Army to honor “donut dollies,” the women who served donuts…
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15 Health Benefits of Strawberries

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Summer brings us vacations, warm days and cookouts. Best of all, it brings that wonderful fruit, strawberries. As the plant’s distinctive white flowers turn to deep red fruit, celebrate May 20, National Strawberry Picking Day. Strawberries…
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12 Veggie Burgers that Will Make You Say “Moo!”

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It is both Hamburger Month and May 6 is No Diet Day so we’re about to rock your socks off with some decidedly non-diet, hamburger ideas that you’ll go nuts for! The hamburger is an oldie but a goodie tracing back to the Mongol Empire.…
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8 Extreme Diets That Should Never Have Been

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May 6 is No Diet Day. Need we say more? Oh, you do want more? Okay, well today we’re thanking Mary Evans Young, Director of the British anti-diet campaign Diet Breakers and recovered anorexic, for creating International No Diet Day in 1992.…
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20 Reasons Why Diets Fail

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We’re celebrating No Diet Day on May 6 courtesy of the eating disorder recovery advocate and Director of Diet Breakers, Mary Evans Young. International No Diet Day began in 1992 and has been going strong ever since, fighting disordered eating,…

15 Reasons Why You Need to Get a Juicer

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May 6 is National Beverage Day. We happen to love this national “holiday” because beverages just so happen to be one of our specialties! While those kinds of cocktails are not part of the recommended 3 liters of fluid per day for men and…
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Moms Must Declare War On In-School Junk Food Ads NOW!

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38-22-35 These are the hot new measurements that every Mom should know. But, don't fear. I'm not trying to sell you on a new fad diet or at least not one that involves your measurements. These numbers are aimed at your children. And those measurements…