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Let's talk about water. We all know that we need water everyday to survive, but how much do we actually need? The research on this is...
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Erika Collette
- Jun 7, 2022
- 2 min
Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
At some point in your life you’ve probably heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But does research agree with this?...
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Erika Collette
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Eating to Boost Immunity
Adequate nutrition is important for your body to be fully functioning and to have the energy to carry out daily activities. This also...
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Erika Collette
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Pre- and Probiotics for Immunity
Another big consideration in nutrition for staying healthy is pre- and probiotics. Prebiotics are fermented ingredients that provide...
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Erika Collette
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
Eat the Rainbow
Protecting yourself against viral respiratory diseases, like influenza and COVID-19, is an important part of living a healthy life....
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Erika Collette
- Jan 18, 2021
- 2 min
US News and World Report Healthiest Diet of 2021
US News & World Report recently came out with their list of the healthiest diets in 2021; the Mediterranean diet came out on top while...
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Erika Collette
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
Artificial Sweeteners
In terms of combating diabetes and obesity artificial sweeteners seem to be everyone’s solution. They are low in calories and reduce the...
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Erika Collette
- Jan 11, 2021
- 3 min
Why You Shouldn't Be Doing the Keto Diet
The most popular fad diet right now is the ketogenic diet; a high-fat, very low carbohydrate diet that was developed in the 1920’s to...
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Erika Collette
- Jan 6, 2021
- 3 min
Why Do We Need Fiber?
Fiber is a type of carbohydrate needed from the diet and can be separated into two types; soluble and insoluble. Soluble fiber can...
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Erika Collette
- Jan 4, 2021
- 3 min
What Makes a Fat "Healthy"?
In the world of nutrition and dietetics we tend to stay away from the terms “good” and “bad” to instead promote the idea of things being...
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Erika Collette
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
The Deception of Organic Dairy
All animal products contain hormones, like estrogen and progesterone, because the animals that they came from naturally produce them....
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Erika Collette
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
How Much Protein Do You Really Need?
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the question of how much protein is enough protein and there are many factors that play a...
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Dr. Andres Jimenez
- Jun 14, 2019
- 2 min
Standard American Diet (SAD)
Although not a well-defined term or standardized in terms of ingredients, the Standard American Diet in general is considered a diet that...
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Dr. Andres Jimenez
- Jan 16, 2019
- 2 min
Fitbit App - Log Food
One of the toughest challenges when using a fitness tracker platform, is logging food. The rest of the data captured is pretty much done...
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Dr. Andres Jimenez
- Dec 3, 2018
- 1 min
Tackling chronic disease
According to the CDC, in 2016 1.5M people died from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes…that is over half of all US deaths that year! 6...
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