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On-the-Go Muffins Tin Recipes

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Heyyyyy! Here’s another round-up of easy, on-the-go meal prep ideas. This time, all of the recipes are in muffin form, so you can just grab-and-go when you’re in the need of a quick meal or snack. These “Meals in a Muffin” are also super convenient for kid’s lunches and after-school snacks. I hope they inspire your meal prep this weekend! Breakfast Customizable Protein-Packed Oatmeal Cups With 11 grams of protein in each cup, these customizable protein-packed oatmeal cups make for the perfect breakfast on the go. Just customize, bake, and then keep a batch in the freezer so you always have a healthy breakfast waiting for you!  Cranberry & Cacao Nib Protein Muffins I mean, who wouldn’t love starting their day off with a little chocolate? These muffins are full of protein and very satisfying. Plus, the ingredients are simple and straightforward, so you’re more than likely to have everything in your kitchen! Peanut Butter Banana Jelly Filled Baked Oatmeal Cups These Peanu

Finding Balance After A Lifelong Eating Disorder

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It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me here . I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!  I clearly remember my first experience with binge eating. I was only about ten years old, but my home life was in chaos. My dad had recently lost his business and declared bankruptcy, and we had to sell our home and almost all of our belongings. The turmoil was hard for my parents, but was absolutely traumatic for my younger sister and me. I remember waking up during the night and hearing them fighting over the situation. My sister and I were too young to understand the details, but old enough to know it was really, really bad. At some point during that very rough time, I bought a bag of candy. This was an unusual occurrence for me because fo

Reducing Sugar Intake Improves Health Quickly, Researchers Find

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We know sugar is not exactly the healthiest thing we can consume, but a new study underscores just how dramatically and speedily eliminating it from our diets can affect our well-being. The study, which will be published in the September issue of Gastroenterology, looked at obese children who habitually consumed sugar (fructose). The children’s sugar consumption was restricted for nine days without a change in overall calories; the sugar calories they had been consuming were replaced by complex carbohydrates. In that short amount of time — just nine days — the children showed less conversion of sugar to fat, a reduction in liver fat, and improvement of insulin, glucose and lipid metabolism. The findings indicate that reducing sugar intake even short-term may lower the risk for obesity, fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. “The magnitude of the metabolic changes in only nine days was surprising,” the study’s lead author, Jean-Marc Schw

Five Of My Favorite Nutrition Books

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^^ Spinach, peanut butter, oat, banana, and milk smoothie. Not vegan, but plant-based! I’m sure many of you have heard about the documentary  What The Health by now. Along the lines of  Food Inc.  (which I love) and  Forks Over Knives ,   What The Health promotes a plant-based, vegan diet as the be-all and end-all right way to eat. I have had several friends watch it and immediately proclaim themselves vegan for life. I am not a fan of the documentary because it leans on cherry-picked studies to scare people into avoiding ALL animal products FOREVER. I stumbled upon this article  while digging around online and completely agree with these sentiments by the author, Julia Belluz: “Andersen’s film fails on several accounts, and cranks the food fear sirens to irresponsibly high levels. He mischaracterizes and overstates what we know about how particular foods drive disease, by offering a narrow view of the science with cherry-picked studies to support his views. He also seeks out a