While an occasional dessert is the ultimate mood lifter, too much sugar in your diet will be detrimental to your health. Enter agave: the healthy and delicious alternative to sugar.
When you consume sugar, insulin is produced in your body, and too much insulin has been linked to all kinds of problems such as depression, lethargy, hypertension, heart disease, type II diabetes and even Alzheimer’s. So if you really enjoy sweets, agave might be the answer for you. Agave is a sweet syrupy liquid found inside a plant that grows in Mexico.
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6/29/09
Agave: the healthy and delicious alternative to sugar
Cellulite: can we all finally agree it’s natural and not nasty?
Cellulite is not a medical term or condition. The word was coined by European spas several decades ago and later took hold in the U.S. in the early 70’s. Now that beauty icon Kim Kardashian has said, “So What!” to her cellulite, can we all finally agree it’s natural and not nasty?
Ninety percent of women have dimpled skin around their thighs and hips that is referred to as cellulite. And we’re obsessed with getting rid of it because the current accepted beauty norm says it’s a problem.
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