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Tell Me What You Want in 2017 (Reader Survey)

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Hey, friends! Happy Thursday/almost Friday/almost the weekend! First and foremost, thank you so much for reading CNC, especially those of you who have followed along for years now. Your support and opinion means a lot to me, so I am getting ready for 2017 and want your input so I can continue to make CNC a place that you love to come and visit. Using the survey link below, please tell me what you’d like to see (or not see) on CNC next year. Many, many thanks in advance!!! Carrots ‘N’ Cake Reader Survey And just wanted to share some updates from our 24 Days of Togetherness . (If you missed days 1-4, you can read about them here .) If you’re participating this year, I hope you’re enjoying the holiday season as much as we are!  I love seeing all of your posts on social media! #24daysoftogetherness DAY 5: GET A CHRISTMAS TREE DAY 6: TAKE A FAMILY PHOTO #nailedit DAY 7: WEAR RED AND GREEN ALL DAY Qman also wore red and black stripped socks, and I wore a red plaid infinity sc

Make Dinner Easy With This One Pan Dish: Lemon Rosemary Chicken & Root Vegetables

After investigating how food is produced and raised in this country, one of the first commitments to my health I made was to completely stop eating “factory farmed” meat. Whether I’m eating at home, a friend’s house, or at a … Continued The post Make Dinner Easy With This One Pan Dish: Lemon Rosemary Chicken & Root Vegetables appeared first on Food Babe . from Food Babe http://ift.tt/2hpbDh5

7 Light and Easy Holiday Cookies for Your Upcoming Swap

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These festive sweets are ideal for a holiday cookie swap, and they make great hostess gifts too. If you’re having trouble deciding on just one recipe, go ahead and make them all — it’s totally doable, since each recipe requires just 20 minutes of prep or less. Keep a few for yourself, then bundle the rest in gift bags for your friends and family to enjoy. Holiday “shopping” doesn’t get much easier than that. The fact that they’re all on the lighter side? Consider it a bonus. No-Bake Chewy Truffle Cookies Embrace the opportunity to give your oven a rest. These chewy, no-bake truffles are loaded with sweet dried dates bound together by cocoa powder, reduced-fat peanut butter, and a little bit of butter and honey (instead of the traditional combination of milk and sugar). Triple-Chocolate Cookies Why settle for one type of chocolate when you can load up your cookies with three? Ellie Krieger uses a combination of dark chocolate, milk chocolate and unsweetened cocoa powder to create t

Dear Readers: What Do You Want from Mark’s Daily Apple in 2017?

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No doubt, 2016 will go down in the books as one mammoth year for Mark’s Daily Apple. We went through an entire site redesign, a.k.a. MDA 3.0.—informed by your ideas last winter—and loaded it with a host of new resources. As we close out this year, I’ll have plenty of announcements for what’s coming down the pipeline in 2017. I’ll also take a look back at the best of 2016—as I see it. What have we learned, what have we accomplished, and how has the health and wellness world changed in the span of twelve months? For now, as I sit down to my New Year’s planning, I want to bring your thoughts to bear—your wish list for article topics, site resources, and all things Primal. And, let’s just throw in a contest for good measure…. This blog from the very start has been a community effort, and I can’t imagine it any other way. Reader feedback throughout the years has propelled everything from what I write about and how the site functions to what products I create and what Primal events we’ve

3-Ingredient, One-Pan Healthy Sweet Potato Hash

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Hey, hey! I’m breathing life into an old recipe, but it’s one that has changed and morphed so much over the years, it’s practically a new one all together. It’s definitely become a tried-and-true meal that we make again and again, so I just had to share the updated and easier (!!) recipe. I swear, this meal comes together in no time at all, especially if you use pre-cut sweet potatoes, and since it only requires one pan for cooking, there isn’t much clean-up either! Healthy Sweet Potato Hash Ingredients: 1 tbsp  unsweetened coconut cooking oil 2 medium/large sweet potatoes (or 1.75 pounds-ish pre-cut) 1 pound ground beef, turkey, or chicken 1 tbsp garlic (or onion) powder 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp sea salt 4-5 handfuls of baby spinach Directions : Dice sweet potatoes (peel them if you’d like) into small pieces and then add them to a large saute pan with oil, garlic/onion powder, salt, and cinnamon. Coat sweet potatoes in oil and spices, cover with a lid, and cook on med

DIY Gel Nails At Home

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I am not one of those gals who always has perfect nails. I tend to chip a classic manicure within 10 minutes of leaving the salon. And I am absolutely terrible at painting my nails at home. Once I took a long time to paint all 10 nails a dark shade but it looked so sloppy that I immediately took it all off and just went nail naked. Earlier this year I had my first gel manicure. I could not believe for how long my nails looked great and that I could carry on with regular life without treating my nails like they were breakable glass. But gel manis are expensive – $45 with tip at my favorite salon – and that’s not something I can justify spending on a regular basis long term. A friend of mine had an at-home kit and did my nails for me once, and it worked quite well! Not  quite as long-lasting as the salon, but pretty darn close. I researched what it would cost to buy my own, and I got everything for about $125. Therefore, DIY gel nails would pay for themselves in three manicures. I b

When and Why To Use Accommodating Resistance to Get Stronger

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Written by: Kevin Cann The use of accommodating resistance was made popular by Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell. Now a days accommodating resistance is not only used by powerlifters, but by high school and college strength and conditioning programs, as well as the general public. When I was an intern at Harvard University, many of the coaches used bands and chains in their programs. You definitely do not need to use bands and chains to get stronger. Plenty of people have put up huge totals without the use of accommodating resistance. However, a recent meta-analysis shows that the use of bands and chains can lead to faster gains in strength when compared to conventional training ( 1 ). I don’t know about you, but if there is the chance I can put up bigger numbers faster, I am going to incorporate it into my training. Accommodating resistance goes beyond building strength as well. They even serve a purpose with novice lifters. Having chains hanging from a bar will teach that novice