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What the HECK am I supposed to eat, anyways?

What the HECK am I supposed to eat, anyways?

It seems that every day we find out that another supposedly “healthy” food may not be quite as healthy as we thought. Hormones in milk (possibly aspartame soon), pesticides on vegetables, genetically modified soy (GMO) and other foods, cancerous causing meats, stomach upsetting wheat… I mean, really, what can we eat anymore? It all seemed... Read more »

By Melanie Bolen,
March 13, 2013 at 3:22 pm

The Best Sugar Substitutions

There is a lot of debate out there about sweetners and how they affect our bodies. Which ones to choose? Should we just stick with regular sugar? What side effects could I have from using other sweetners? Well, I can tell you, straight off, that if it’s been created in a laboratory by man, you... Read more »

By Melanie Bolen,
April 11, 2010 at 11:23 pm

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