Maria's Nutritious and Delicious Journal

Sally Fallon NOURISHING TRADITIONS: “There is as much sugar in a small glass of orange juice as there is in a candy bar – and most of it fructose, which is more harmful than the sucrose of sugar. Consumption of apple juice has been linked...

In my book, Secrets to a Healthy Metabolism, I have a chapter called "Milk: Does it really “Do a Body Good?” The truth is that low-fat dairy is overrated. You are in the grocery store and two jugs of mi
lk sit side by side, one skim and one whole milk. Now, without any other information about the ingredients, which one has been scientifically proven to cause weight gain and heart disease, and which has been proven to support weight loss and coronary...

When I was a teenager, I mistakenly ate fat free frozen yogurt for a dessert thinking it was a safe "diet" food. NOPE, it isn't. One of the most famous frozen yogurt chains ingredients for vanilla yogurt powder is: Pure Crystalline Fructose, Dextrose...

For every molecule of sugar we ingest, our bodies uses 54 molecules of magnesium to process it! No matter where the carbohydrates come from; 4 grams of carbohydrates equal one teaspoon of sugar in our body. Let me say that again…4 grams of...