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Blueberry muffins for happy arteries
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Blueberry muffins for happy arteries

Blueberry muffins for happy arteries I used to think I loved those regular muffins you find at most local coffee shops. But man, once I started researching how to eat for optimal health, I realised they were causing my body to consistently gain weight and be hormonally out of whack. A few years ago I began to explore what was possible when baking using superfoods and incredibly heart-healthy ingredients. It's not muffins (as an art-form) that are bad, just a few of their ingredients. Suddenly a whole new world opened, and my baking was baaaack. These blueberry banana muffins [...]

Green smoothie recipes to lower cholesterol: The Antioxidant Wonder!
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Green smoothie recipes to lower cholesterol: The Antioxidant Wonder!

Green smoothie recipes to lower cholesterol: The Antioxidant Wonder! How are your green smoothie or health resolutions coming along? If your blender is still hot from your last smoothie - well done!!! If you've fallen off the horse, don't worry, failure is to be expected and nothing to worry about. Just get your blender out and make yourself one of these bad boys! I have been playing with green smoothie recipes this month, and am excited to share today's heart healthy antioxidant wonder with you. I hope you will add this to your growing list of green smoothie recipes for [...]

Gorgeous vanilla apple crumble (wheat free, sugar free, and gluten free)
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Gorgeous vanilla apple crumble (wheat free, sugar free, and gluten free)

Gorgeous vanilla apple crumble (wheat free, sugar free, and gluten free) It’s Day 5 of Oat Week at The Curious Giraffe! One of my favourite ways to use oats is in an apple crumble. The trouble with most crumble recipes is the addition of wheat flour, sugar, and margarine. This recipe cunningly sidesteps these harmful ingredients, while offering a satisfying mouth feel and rich apple vanilla-spice flavouring. I've cut out the normal first step in crumbles which is to cook your apples first in a pot before baking the oat crust in the oven. In this case, we are going to simplify [...]

Banana oat muffins with almonds and blueberries (wheat free recipe for cholesterol reduction)
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Banana oat muffins with almonds and blueberries (wheat free recipe for cholesterol reduction)

Banana oat muffins with almonds and blueberries (wheat free recipe for cholesterol reduction) It's Day 1 of Oat Week at The Curious Giraffe! Today we are making muffins with oat flour and absolutely NO wheat. Before Oat Week gets underway, I wanted to clarify something. Why all this fuss about going 'wheat-free' or 'flourless' and using oats instead of wheat? Cardiologist William Davis, MD, author of Wheat Belly sums up wheat nicely (all forms including supposedly healthy forms like whole wheat, sprouted, etc.) as "incredibly destructive genetic monsters". His fascinating account of the genetic modification of wheat over the last [...]