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Cleaned-Up Joanna Gaines Biscuits

If you love Joanna Gaines’ new recipe book, Magnolia Table, but you also noticed (like I did) that most of the dishes in there aren’t the most health-conscious, I’m here to tell you…you can have it both ways!  You can have good ol’ southern, stick-to-your-ribs cuisine and still be healthy(ish), you just have to clean it up a bit.  Not quite sure what I’m talking about?  Let’s take the “Jojo’s Biscuits” recipe.  Because when it’s almost summer, who doesn’t like strawberry shortcake? According to Joanna, it took her a year to perfect her recipe–to strike just the right balance between …

Eating too much sugar? 12 surprising high-sugar foods

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Are you underestimating how much sugar you eat every day?   Did you know that excess sugar may lurk in foods that you wouldn’t even consider “sweet”? The American Heart Association recommends limiting the amount of added sugars you consume to no more than half of your daily discretionary calorie allowance. For most American women, this is no more than 100 calories per day and no more than 150 calories per day for men (or about 6 teaspoons per day for women and 9 teaspoons per day for men). We all know that too much sugar is bad for our health.  It’s been linked …