5 “Health Foods” that May Be Sabotaging Your Diet

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The following foods are often toted as healthy, but a closer look reveals they may be more likely to cause weight gain than weight loss, because of their high calorie content.  Read on, to make sure you’re not falling victim to these traps! Smoothies. Enormous smoothies packed with sugar and calories are the name of [...]

Plain Yogurt vs. Greek Yogurt

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Greek yogurt has become very popular lately.  But what is it?  Just plain yogurt, which is strained to remove most of the liquid (whey), making it very thick like sour cream.  It’s tart, creamy, rich-tasting, and has 7 grams more protein per serving, but only 1/3 of the calcium (because the calcium is in the [...]

Yogurt: Learn to Love It

Few foods offer more health benefits than yogurt. In addition to being a great source of protein and calcium, it provides live & active cultures, which are beneficial for many reasons, primarily because they promote healthy digestion & can boost immunity (there are lots of wannabe immune-boosting foods out there; yogurt is a real one).  [...]

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