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on April 15, 2015

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Why Vegan Does not Mean Healthy

I write this today because I am a little angered about an acai bowl I had for lunch today.

If you don't know what it is, it is a Brazilian fruit-based bowl, that is kind of like a smoothie. The acai is supposedly super good for you- filled with antioxidants. You top the sorbet-acai with bananas, granola, cacao nibs, coconut or fresh fruits.
And, it's most often vegan. No dairy used.
But there is one BIG problem.
One Acai bowl can contain the amount of sugar equivalent to a 20-oz bottle of Coke.

Healthy?! I think not.
I don't think I'm alone when I say sometimes I fall into the "vegan myth". It goes like this, "It's healthy so I can have more of it! Yay!"
But, unfortunately the major culprit here is sugar, and some cases it may be excess fat.
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A couple weeks ago, I had a beautiful breakfast/brunch plate of Avocado toast and a Turmeric Latte (I know very LA, but I was curious to try the Vegan thing). The restaurant I visited is alway…

3 Deadly Ingredients in the American Diet

I used to think I was eating healthy. As healthy as I could at least...

But, I was wrong.
There are childhood favorites that I seem to magnetize to when I go to the grocery store. That's probably why I love shopping at Trader Joe's, because I am not victim to 20+ years of brand loyalty and kids commercials saying "eat me".
I still indulge in my occasional mini fruit loops box, ketchup, and Kraft macaroni and cheese. I don't know if I'll ever shake those for good.
But anyway, I was buying one of my favorite English Muffins today, you know the ones with the orange and white boxes, but I stopped. When I read the ingredients I had to put them down. See what I ended up buying later in this post.

Like many of my favorite childhood foods, it contains soybean oil.
While many claim it is "heart-healthy", those in the nutrition community know it is not. Soybeans are a big GMO crop, and soybean oil is a highly processed food that has adverse effects on our …

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