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Eating
Shannon

Just Planting an Idea

It is important that we don’t offer simple nutritional advice at the risk that it may do more harm than good. A perfect example from the 1970’s, was Health Canada suggesting fat intake be reduced from 40% of one’s daily calories to a healthier 35%. The result was a ‘low fat/fat free’ movement that accelerated

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Body Chemistry
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Where Did Those Two Pounds Come From?

It’s summer and the healthy thing for the body to do is sweat.  Sweating is the body’s natural response to cool itself down.  The body produces water, transfers the heat to the water and moves the heated water out of the body.  The body uses this recipe to make sweat: 2 hydrogen molecules mixed with

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Food Science
Shannon

Not Cool, Beans!

  No one can deny the obvious discontent that the human body feels after eating a serving of beans. Beans, like grains, contain elements in the shell that protects them from predators . . . . predators like humans.  One of these elements is a sugar, oligosaccharide, which ferments in the intestine and produces that

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