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Delicious Chicken Avocado Salad Recipe

by Jadie Aranda Leave a Comment

Chicken Avocado Salad - Chicken, bacon, onion, cilantro, avocado - a delicious combination of flavors!

This yummy dinner salad recipe combines chicken, bacon, avocado, onion, and cilantro for a deliciously healthy meal! I am a huge fan of all-in-one-meals. This is one of our family’s favorite meals, and I love that it is a dinner salad! It has loads of protein, healthy fats, and all whole foods. How much healthier […]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: food, greens, recipes

Does Sugar Make You Tired, Lethargic? Here’s Why

by Jadie Aranda 3 Comments

Does sugar make you tired, sleepy, lethargic, sick? Here's why it happens and what you can do about it

Does eating sugar make you tired? Unable to focus? Drained? If you have a human body, sugar can make you tired. And it happens to children, too, despite the initial energy boost. My stomach churned as the school bus bounced through the turns on its way to the museum. I hadn’t been on a school bus […]

Filed Under: Eat For Energy, Eating Healthy, Your Amazing Body Tagged With: biology, eating, food, processed food, science, sugar

Why Am I Always Tired? How Food is Sucking Your Energy

by Jadie Aranda 5 Comments

It's not lack of sleep making you tired - it's what you eat

Why are you always tired? Are you sleeping enough but still tired during the day? It’s what you eat that is sucking your energy. Read on, exhausted friend… On Sundays, I sleep in as late as I want. My husband gets up with the kids, and when I sleep really late, he’ll even make breakfast. […]

Filed Under: Eat For Energy, Eating Healthy Tagged With: added sugars, eating, food, immune response, overeating, processed food, sugar, water

How to Use Instant Gratification for Weight Loss

by Jadie Aranda 14 Comments

How to use instant gratification for weight loss. Sure, eat a donut. Make a goal to eat just one instead of five.

I stood on the scale in the pale, sterile exam room and slowly lowered my head to read the dreaded display. My polite half-smile melted away as evil numbers made my heart pound and my cheeks hot. Why is it that when I get weighed at the doctor’s office it’s more painful? At home or […]

Filed Under: Eating Healthy, Your Diet Can Bite Me! Tagged With: daily goals, diary, exercise, food, food journal, goal setting, goals, hacks, science, tools, weight loss

Caffeine – 5 Surprising Drug Facts You Didn’t Know

by Jadie Aranda 16 Comments

Caffeine is a drug - despite how many of us are addicted, there are a lot of things we don't know about it!

It was early morning and my eyes could barely stay open as I trudged to the kitchen to turn on my trusty red coffee maker. I expected to hear the machine steam and bubble, the smell of my favorite vanilla macadamia nut coffee filling the kitchen. But instead, there was silence. I filled my water […]

Filed Under: Science Bits, What's In Your Food Tagged With: caffeine, coffee, food, science

New FDA Food Label – The Truth About Added Sugars

by Jadie Aranda 4 Comments

New FDA Food Label - The Truth About Added Sugars. What you need to know before you get duped by the new labels

In my haste, I grabbed the bottle of grape juice that said “100% Grape Juice, No Added Sugars.” Later as the kids threw thousands of puzzle pieces in the air I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs. I felt like I fed them marshmallows for lunch. Apparently “No Added Sugars” does not […]

Filed Under: What's In Your Food Tagged With: added sugars, food, food labels, sugar, tools

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