“…the right type of vitamin K may offer immense benefits to your heart health, including reducing coronary calcification and thereby decreasing your risk of heart disease.”

Saturated fat has taken a beating from the popular media and from health and nutrition professionals, but what’s the other side of the coin that most of those people don’t tell you about?

thatgrace:

That’s right - I don’t eat grains or refined sugar. But, by golly, every so often, I eat cookies.

How can that be?

Two words: Almond Meal - also known as almond flour, though it’s really just finely ground almonds.

Show of hands, who wants the recipe?

Yeah… that’s what I thought….

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I am curious: what are the favorite foods from your childhood that you remember with fondness? Do you remember being drawn to “good, whole foods” as a child, and do you think the era you grew up in had anything to do with your preferences?

“Now that food manufacturers are removing trans fats, otherwise known as hydrogenated oil from their products you might think the replacement would be a natural fat instead of going through an extra processessing step and messing with mother nature.  But NOOOO…”

“People looking to lose weight are fixated on portion control.  It’s one of the first things I get asked when people see the results I have produced.  They want to know whether I practice portion control.

The simple answer is no. I believe it is a horribly flawed theory that has inflicted unnecessary psychological damage on countless people who struggle with their weight.”