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Mood Swings? You Don’t Need a Snickers: How Blood Sugar Stability Creates Emotional Resilience

When you are having a mood swing, eating a chocolate bar is not the best solution. Sure, it will elevate your blood sugar in the short term, but refined sugars are only setting you up for a crash later on. There are ways to stabilize your blood sugar to avoid mood swings that are healthier and more effective. Fueling your body with healthy food not only reduces mood swings, it also helps you to perform at your peak mentally so you can knock it out of the park.

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Foods That Combat Cancer: Science-Backed Nutritional Strategies to Reduce Your Cancer Risk by 50% or More

There are a number of natural substances that prevent the spread of cancers. Some reduce tumors while others combat cancer cells to help your body fight back. Of course healthy lifestyle choices like exercise and diet can really reduce your cancer risk. Here are some amazing cancer-busting foods that you should add to your diet today.

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Best Prebiotic Foods to Boost Digestion

Best Prebiotic Foods to Boost Digestion: Feed Your Gut Bacteria Right

So you’ve probably heard of probiotics;those diminutive little bacterium that live in your tummy and keep you healthy, happy and sane. Well, in order to keep your little belly bugs alive, you have to feed them the good stuff and that’s where prebiotics come in. Prebiotics are insoluble dietary fibers that provides a food source for probiotics and promote healthy intestinal flora.

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Why Carb-free Diets are Not the Answer

Why Carb-Free Diets Are Not the Answer: The Science Behind Why Your Body Needs Carbohydrates

From Atkins to Paleo, low-carb diets are all the rage. Touted as the best thing since sliced bread, low-carb diets are credited with everything from weight loss to curing acne, but are these high fat, high protein diets really the answer? Carbohydrates do cause high blood sugar and modern baking methods flood the body with gluten, but cutting carbs out completely is probably not the long-term answer to weight loss and other health issues.

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Are you Gluten Intolerant?

Are You Gluten Intolerant? Understanding Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity

Gluten, gluten everywhere and the effect it’s having on our bodies is astronomical. The increase in hamburger buns, pizza dough, unhealthy snacks and processed bread in our diets has introduced more gluten than our poor digestive tracts can manage. You see, modern baking methods don’t leave enough time for the gluten to convert into digestible sugars and this causes a negative reaction in the immune systems of those who are gluten-intolerant leading to a number of unpleasant, and often debilitating symptoms.

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