Posts From Kathy Magilton

Nutrition

What’s so great about spinach?

You may remember a post we did last fall about pyrroquinoline quinine, a mighty antioxidant that protects our bodies at the cellular level and promotes the formation of new healthy cells

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What’s So Great About Walnuts?

You probably know what a serving size of almonds is (about 20). You may have a bowl of almonds hanging around the kitchen, always being restocked for little hands to

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What’s So Great About Tilapia

You practically need a Masters in Nutrition Science to safely navigate the aisles of most grocery stores these days. Is this cereal too high in sugar to count as a

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What’s so great about apples?

Trivia time! Sharon, Annie Elizabeth and Karin Schneider… girls you went to high school with or types of apple? Question 2: Duchess of Oldenburg, Duke of Devonshire and Lady Williams…. European royalty

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What’s So Great About Lemons?

Gotta be honest, in the garnish category lemons may reign. Need a jaunty little kicker on the edge of a cocktail glass? Lemon’s your man. Spritz of something tart and zesty on

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What’s So Great About Stevia?

What’s white, granulated, used as a sweetener in food and drink and rapidly becoming a billion dollar industry? Before you answer sugar, here are a few more clues. Unlike sugar,

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What’s So Great About White Potatoes

Wait, what? Hasn’t it been established that all white foods are bad? White rice is stripped of all the fibre, white bread is sugar in loaf form, and white sugar

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What’s So Great About Hemp

This post originally ran on October 26, 2011 but we wanted to rotate it out of our archives for you since Kathy has the week off. Start Besides talking about how much

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What’s So Great About Ginger

As a trainer and nutrition advisor, one of my favourite websites is www.precisionnutrition.com (shameless plug but really, so much good scientific info. I will wait for the sponsorship cheques to

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What’s So Great About Goji?

Andy Warhol said everyone would have their 15 minutes of fame. Seems that’s true for inanimate objects too. From Emma Stone to Tickle me Elmo, Kings of Leon to leg