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Archive for February, 2010

The Best Protein Bars

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

A quick perusal of the protein bars at your local store reveals a lot of brands to choose from. Some are packed with nutrition and make a perfect snack to satisfy your hunger, while others are just glorified candy bars.  Nutrition experts recommend looking carefully at the nutrition facts panel to guide your selection. [...]

Why We Should Eat Whole Foods

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

There are two great books I have read in the past few years that fire up my enthusiasm for eating whole foods (meaning foods in their natural state instead of processed and packaged).  The first is Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma and the second is Daphne Miller’s The Jungle Effect.
Omnivore’s Dilemma was one of those books [...]