Recipes

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1. Kim V. says:

   January 25, 2010 at 5:02 am

   April, I’m addicted to your blog. I read every morning! I am just like you a protein kinda girl!!!!!!! The receipes are awesome. Just wanted you to know that I’m loving it!!

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2. emilie says:

   February 17, 2010 at 3:04 pm

   i just wanted to say: you are a recipe genius.

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6. Maria Emmerich says:

   August 19, 2010 at 6:08 am

   For those of you who need more info on the difference between sugars…

   1. After eating fructose, 100 percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. But with glucose, your liver has to break down only 20 percent.

   2. Every cell in your body, including your brain, utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is “burned up” immediately after you consume it. By contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (the damaging form of cholesterol), and triglycerides, which get stored as fat.

   3. The fatty acids created during fructose metabolism accumulate as fat droplets in your liver and skeletal muscle tissues, causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Insulin resistance progresses to metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes.

   4. Fructose is the most lipophilic carbohydrate. In other words, fructose converts to activated glycerol (g-3-p), which is directly used to turn FFAs into triglycerides. The more g-3-p you have, the more fat you store. Glucose does not do this.

   5. When you eat 120 calories of glucose, less than one calorie is stored as fat. 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat. Consuming fructose is essentially consuming fat!

   6. The metabolism of fructose by your liver creates a long list of waste products and toxins, including a large amount of uric acid, which drives up blood pressure and causes gout.

   7. Glucose suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and stimulates leptin, which suppresses your appetite. Fructose has no effect on ghrelin and interferes with your brain’s communication with leptin, resulting in overeating.

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7. Laura says:

   September 2, 2010 at 10:53 am

   Hi April! Thanks so much for your blog! Just had a suggestion for some toppings for your overnight oats (the ones made with the cottage cheese). I just had them with better’n peanut butter, walden farms caramel dip and walden farms chocolate dip….reminds me of a snickers bar! Delish!

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   April Reply:
   September 2nd, 2010 at 12:26 pm

   Oh yum that sounds great!! I’ll have to try it next time I make them..Thanks for sharing!

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