Chronic Stress Could Mean Constant Cravings
Lisa Andrews Lisa Andrews

Chronic Stress Could Mean Constant Cravings

If you find yourself hunting for candy when you’ve had a stressful day, you’re not alone. Comfort food is a common go-to when we’re under pressure. Unfortunately, the combination of stress and high-calorie comfort food alters the brain and can lead you to eat too much. It may also increase cravings for sweet, highly palatable foods, which could lead to weight gain…

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Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Green Coffee Extract
Lynn Grieger, food shopping, grocery, food news, processed food Lynn Grieger, RDN, CDCES, CHWC, CPT Lynn Grieger, food shopping, grocery, food news, processed food Lynn Grieger, RDN, CDCES, CHWC, CPT

Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Green Coffee Extract

Unroasted #coffee beans contain higher amounts of chlorogenic acid (CGA) — the #phytochemical in coffee that provides many of the health benefits — than roasted coffee.

Studies using CGA have found that it decreases fasting blood sugar, insulin levels, triglycerides, and LDL cholesterol as well as reducing body weight and decreasing body fat.

So let’s talk about green coffee extract, a popular #functionalingredient…

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Choose More Blue Foods for Improved Health
Lynn Grieger, RDN, CDCES, CHWC, CPT Lynn Grieger, RDN, CDCES, CHWC, CPT

Choose More Blue Foods for Improved Health

The blue foods include fish, crustaceans (crabs, shrimp, krill, prawns, lobster), octopus, squid, mollusks (clams, cockles, sea snails, mussels, scallops), aquatic plants like water spinach or watercress, seaweed, and other aquatic animals such as sea cucumbers, sharks, and eels. There are over 2500 different types of blue foods that contain important nutrients for optimum health.

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Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Collagen
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Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Collagen

We choose what we eat for a variety of reasons: taste, convenience, cost, and #health concerns. Food manufacturers capitalize on consumers’ desire for healthy foods by adding ingredients that are marketed to help protect our #immune system, improve #mood, and increase #energy levels. One of the ways they do this is through #functionalingredients like #collagen…

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