Carla Golden Wellness | Posts About Nutrition

Below are posts containing my thoughts about nutrition. I hope you enjoy them.

6 Health-Preserving Reasons to Stop Consuming Oil

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The definition of a whole food is a nutritious edible meant for human consumption that possess all three macronutrients fat, protein, and carbohydrate in their natural form. Whole foods are important in a healthful diet because they are proportionally balanced to deliver optimal nutrition for performance and disease-prevention. No vegetable oils are whole foods. They are 100% separated fats with […]

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Know Your Complex, Simple, and Refined Carbs

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Of the three macro-nutrients that comprise whole foods – carbohydrates, protein, and fat – it is carbohydrates that seem to get the greatest lashing and are surrounded by the most confusion. Are carbs good to eat or best avoided? Well, both! It totally depends on what kind of carbohydrates you eat. All carbohydrates can not […]

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Starbucks Matcha is Not Real Matcha

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One evening after dinner out and a movie, my husband and I had some time to fill before the babysitter expected us home so we stopped off at Starbucks. As an avid & daily matcha green tea drinker, that’s what I ordered: plain with just hot water. Powder + water = matcha. When my cup was prepared, […]

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Key Steps to Preventing & Slowing Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

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On March 12, 2015 I exhibited at the local Memory Matters’ Your Amazing Brain! conference. Below are the resources that I presented at my table. All words in orange are links that you can click for more information. Dietary Guidelines for Alzheimer’s Prevention by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Cholesterol Confusion: Let’s Make Sense of […]

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Nutrition Only in Animal-Based Foods

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When it comes to personal food choices there are several nutrients that are considered only existing in, are better in quality from, or are easier to obtain from animal-based foods. Many people believe that this notion indicates that humans are naturally meant to eat animals and that doing so is not only justifiable, but necessary. The […]

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Alkalizing the Body is Oxygenating the Body

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What I love about studying alkalizing foods is that it leads one to a whole food, plant-based diet. If you can’t bring yourself to eat plants for the benefit of the environment, the welfare of animals, or willingness to feed global people, then perhaps you could be convinced to eat a plant-based diet for the […]

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Choosing the Safest Fats, Carbs, and Proteins

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Fats, carbohydrates, and proteins are macro-nutrients, not food groups. All whole foods, by definition, are a combination of these three macro-nutrients in a form that is minimally processed. Fats serve to insulate and protect our bodies. They help keep us warm, cushion our interaction with gravity, help metabolize fat soluble vitamins, and assist the conduction of energy […]

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Alcohol is Junkfood

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First, let’s take a Sunday-drive through the dictionary. Alcohol: a colorless, limpid, volatile, flammable, water-miscible liquid, C 2 H 5 OH, having an etherlike odor and pungent, burning taste, the intoxicating principle of fermented liquors, produced by yeast fermentation of certain carbohydrates, as grains, molasses, starch, or sugar, or obtained synthetically by hydration of ethylene or as […]

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