Love Your Liver


Updated 04/03/09 1:01 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 13 comments

Love Your Liver

There must be 50 ways to love your liver, but to truly love something you have to know what it is all about. Right? Well, what impresses me most about the liver is not that it is the largest internal organ of the body, but that it performs over 5,000 functions. A small list includes balancing your cholesterol, storing vitamins, activating hormones, and metabolizing fat into glucose to give Read more

Eye on IRON


Updated 07/07/09 10:24 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 8 comments

Eye on IRON

Spinach went from being one of ‘the healthiest foods you could eat’ to ‘the throw it all out as fast as you can’ foods. In case another media crazed E-Coli outbreak surfaces, we're going to have to find other ways to get that iron, as spinach was (and still is) one of the best plant sources of getting this mineral. For further ideas on how to get your iron, read more Read more