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Let Talk About Water
Let's talk about water. We all know that we need water every day to survive, but how much do we actually need? The research on this is...

Erika Collette
Jun 7, 20223 min read
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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...

Erika Collette
Jun 7, 20222 min read
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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...

Erika Collette
Feb 3, 20213 min read
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Pre- and Probiotics for Immunity
Another big consideration in nutrition for staying healthy is pre- and probiotics. Prebiotics are fermented ingredients that provide...

Erika Collette
Jan 25, 20212 min read
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Eat the Rainbow
Protecting yourself against viral respiratory diseases, like influenza and COVID-19, is an important part of living a healthy life....

Erika Collette
Jan 20, 20213 min read
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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...

Erika Collette
Jan 18, 20212 min read
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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...

Erika Collette
Jan 13, 20212 min read
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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...

Erika Collette
Jan 11, 20213 min read
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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...

Erika Collette
Jan 6, 20213 min read
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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...

Erika Collette
Jan 4, 20213 min read
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The Deception of Organic Dairy
All animal products contain hormones, like estrogen and progesterone, because the animals that they came from naturally produce them....

Erika Collette
Dec 30, 20203 min read
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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...

Erika Collette
Dec 28, 20203 min read
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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...
Dr. Andres Jimenez
Jun 14, 20192 min read
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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...
Dr. Andres Jimenez
Jan 16, 20192 min read
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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...
Dr. Andres Jimenez
Dec 3, 20181 min read
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