Continuum Wellness News

What’s for breakfast? The selection is huge. The menu can include such items as waffles, pancakes, omelets, bagels, fruit bars, power bars, protein shakes, a piece of fruit, sausages, or cold cereal. With all this to choose from, which items will best fuel the brain of your growing child or an aging adult? You guessed [...]

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The High Fructose Corn Syrup Debacle In recent years the literature grows on the dangers of high fructose corn syrup as a food additive. The corn industry and the sugar industry laud the substance but our bodies tell us different. Growing girths, increased rates of juvenile and adult onset diabetes tell a different tale. Leptin [...]

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This delicious non-dairy recipe is easy to do year round and offers added variety to your diet. Tools: requires a blender Almonds: pre-soak in water for 2 days. Or soak overnight, the soaking process increases digestibility. 3 cups water 3/4 cup of pre-soaked and peeled almonds 1 tablespoon maple syrup 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract [...]

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by Catherine Carter No need to be overwhelmed with packing the kid’s lunches. Packing a healthy lunch doesn’t require one to be a dietitian or a nutritionist it just takes label reading and a little planning. You will save money and build your young one’s health. One of the challenges of the mid-day meal is [...]

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When was the last time you ripped into a juicy grapefruit? A large, round fruit, the grapefruit is a hybrid of pummelo and sweet orange. Grapefruit is rich in heart healthy flavones and phenolic compounds. One of the phenolic compounds in grapefruit is naringin. Research studies show it to have a cholesterol reducing effect (hypercholesterolemia). [...]

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For teens looking to keep weight off, it doesn’t have to be a breakfast of champions, but it should be some kind of breakfast — and preferably a healthy one. Yet another study is confirming that adolescents who skip breakfast have a higher risk of being overweight. “There’s a pretty significant inverse association between how [...]