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Sweet Potatoes Erroneously Reported as Healthier

The size used for comparison was a Russet that’s 52% larger in weight! That is the loophole Sweet Potatoes used to promote superior health benefits. And if it's so simple and obvious, how did so many trusted nutritional professionals and reliable resources get this nutrition fact wrong?

The USDA's website is the root cause of this misinformation. 

Small, medium, and large sizes are most familiar to the general population and easiest to visualize. The problem is the weight for each...

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How to Lower Blood Sugar with Healthy "Slow" Carbs

Blood Sugar Matters for Everyone, Especially if You're Over 45  

If you're over 45, you're even more susceptible to increased blood pressure, body weight, increased (bad) LDL cholesterol, pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and more! Elevated blood sugar levels cause and contribute to almost every one of these conditions. Healthy foods, like slow carbohydrates, can help lower blood sugar levels naturally to help improve these conditions to avoid progressive disease.

Slow Carbs = Steady...

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3 Ways to Improve Blood Sugar Levels with Food

Want to improve blood sugar levels and manage body weight? The metabolism responds and reacts to what we eat and drink, so if you want to manage your body weight and better regulate your blood sugar levels, focus on these three aspects of nutrition.  

1. Fiber 

Don't count calories or carbs; count on fiber. Fiber is what the metabolism relies on to maintain a healthy digestive tract. It also feeds the good gut bacteria in the belly that communicate with the brain to...

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Lower Blood Sugar Naturally

Blood Sugar Matters for Everyone, Especially if You're Over 45  

If you're over 45, you're even more susceptible to increased blood pressure, body weight, increased (bad) LDL cholesterol, pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and more! Elevated blood sugar levels cause and contribute to almost every one of these conditions.

Healthy foods can help lower blood sugar levels naturally to help improve these conditions to avoid progressive disease.

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Sweet Potatoes Aren't Healthier: "Uprooting" the Myth

Sweet potatoes have been erroneously reported as the healthier potato because the size used for comparison was a Russet that’s 52% larger in weight! How did so many trusted nutritional professionals and reliable resources get this nutrition fact wrong? 


Small, medium and large sizes are most familiar to the general population and easiest to visualize. The problem is the weight for each medium sample on the USDA’s website isn’t the same; see USDA images below.

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Best Weekend Pancake Recipe!

Pancakes are a fun food I enjoy on occasion and when I do, they better be exceptionally good! Which means, I will make my own mix, using simple ingredients, from my family recipe below: no fillers, no fakes and no flour imposters. 

What’s a flour imposter? It’s flour impersonating a healthy food, because it is made from a healthy ingredient, it pretends to be healthier. But it isn’t because once the healthy ingredient is transformed it into flour it’s an...

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Beer: Did You Know?

Beer is often referred to as liquid bread, because regular beer contains sugar in the form of maltose…that’s the sugary carb and the brewer’s yeast, which is used to make both bread and beer. 

UPDATE: May 3, 2022 Video Post "How I Buy Beer" click to watch! 

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