Sweet Potato-Black Bean Salad with Ginger Peanut Dressing Serves 1 Ingredients 2-3 cups raw spinach, rinsed 1 small sweet potato, cubed 1/2 tsp ground cumin 1/2 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp chili powder 1/2 cup no-salt-added canned black beans, drained and rinsed 1 cup fresh pineapple or 1 small Champagne mango, diced Ginger Peanut Dressing (recipe [...]

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The 80-20 rule. Cheat meals. Dessert shots. Aside from their common foundation in weight loss culture, all these things share something else: an emphasis on moderation. Indeed, one of the main tenets of healthy eating doctrine is that a healthy diet is a diet of neither deprivation nor indulgence. Moderation in the diet can be [...]

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Here’s a riddle for you: What is… black, white, and red all over? Beans, of course! Beans are a healthful addition to almost any diet, as they boast several valuable nutrition attributes. To name just a few… Protein: Although they are classified vegetables, a single cup of cooked beans contains up to 16 grams of [...]

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