Salad — bleuh!  That’s how I always felt about it, mainly because I always ate the same kind of salad with the same kind of dressing. And the more I ate it, the less trouble I went to with it, so that it eventually wound down to carrots and lettuce.  The trick to adding more…

A spoonful of sugar makes the panic attacks go away?  Well, maybe it will help. One of the newest sugars on the alternative sweetener aisle has been around for hundreds of years in southeast Asia.  Now it is quickly becoming the favorite here, too.  Coconut palm sugar has the advantage of being natural, minimally processed,…

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.” ~Joe Girard Wouldn’t we love to take the elevator to our goals?  That’s what all the diet pills and magic potions promise.  Just push the button and presto change-o, you have the slim, svelte body you always…

A stroll down the sugar and sugar alternative aisle in the health food store will….confuse you.  What are all these products and how are they different from sugar?  We’ve looked at some — honey, stevia, agave Nectar, and xylitol.  Today we’ll look at another twist to the sugar story, sucanat. Sucanat stands for SUgar CAne…

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