Tag: nutrition

• Glowing Up After College: My Story + How-To’s

  

  Remember how I started my blog in the beginning… …then continued in college? Woo boy, we’ve come a long way! Look, I am in no way saying I started from the bottom of the barrel. People have told me I won the genetic lottery, but I understand that I don’t fit everyone’s criteria on what…

  Cassie Tran

  May 9, 2023

  Exercise, Fitness, Health, Life, Travel, Videos, wellness

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• Copycat Recipe: Body Energy Club chocolate peanut butter smoothie

  

  If you all have already known, I’m OBSESSED with Body Energy Club‘s skinny peanut butter dream smoothie. It was a weekly must–now a monthly to bi-monthly essential, but it’s never let me down! Trust me, I’ve tried the other smoothies on their menu. It simply doesn’t compare! Now, I had, HAD to recreate this at…

  Cassie Tran

  April 13, 2023

  Breakfast, Dessert, Diet, Health, Nutrition, Products, Recipes, Reviews, Smoothies & Drinks, Travel, wellness

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• This Protein Bar is Basically a Candy Bar…but I Like It Anyways

  

  You know what you are told whenever asking to purchase a protein bar: “Basically, most protein bars are fortified candy bars. Your ideal protein bar should contain at least X grams of protein and only X grams of sugar.” It is seriously annoying that many of the protein bars in the market do not contain…

  Cassie Tran

  September 10, 2020

  Diet, Health, Nutrition, Reviews, wellness

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• What We Should Account For in Food More Often, But Probably Don’t (Hint: it’s not fiber or added sugar)

  

  Well folks, it’s time to celebrate: Happy 100 Years of Popularized Calorie Counting! Yep, calorie counting propelled in prominence beginning in the post-war era during the 1920s, though the existence of the calorie was discovered long before. Ever since we began viewing the numbers on our food labels and instructed to pay more attention to…

  Cassie Tran

  August 14, 2020

  Diet, food science, Health, Nutrition

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• Being Vegan in San Francisco vs. Los Angeles: How Do They Compare?

  

  All my life until mid-September in 2016, I’ve been a SoCal woman. I’m still natively SoCal, but it’s taken over 18 years for me to experience life in a new city (San Luis Obispo) in Central California. One area that is even more popular in California as a state would be the Bay Area. This…

  Cassie Tran

  August 7, 2020

  Diet, Health, Life, Nutrition, Travel

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• In Honor of National Ice Cream Month…

  

  …in general, it is TREMENDOUSLY challenging for me to select one favorite dessert. Coffee cake any day. Mango sticky rice until I die. A whole plate of chocolate chip cookies will win me over more quickly than a diamond ring. Peanut butter chickpea blondies….OOF. Having said that, ice cream holds an incredibly special place in…

  Cassie Tran

  July 26, 2020

  Diet, Health, Reviews, Travel, wellness

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• Why I Stopped Intermittent Fasting Every Day

  

  Good old IF…or as one would say, eye-eff. Intermittent fasting: a time-oriented method of dieting (not an actual diet) where one undergoes precisely measured and specific allotments of time to eat and the rest to fast (by that, we mean no calories or net macros). There is a plethora of studies and works of research…

  Cassie Tran

  July 23, 2020

  Diet, Health, Life, Nutrition

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• Pumpkin Curry Soup

  

  Throwing back to one of the recipes we created for the Food Science Club here! I know this isn’t quite the correct time to consume what would be considered a “heavy” and creamy soup, but believe me, when it becomes cold at night, this pumpkin curry soup is a dish you will want every single…

  Cassie Tran

  June 29, 2020

  Health

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• A Low Fiber Vegan Diet: Why? How? When?

  

  Amongst the vegan community, it is an absolute headache to constantly be bombarded with questions about protein, zinc, calcium, vitamin B12, iron, and organoleptic enjoyment of food in a vegan diet. Yes, we can consume plenty of these nutrients AND adore the taste of our meals. What many vegans and non-vegans alike understand is the…

  Cassie Tran

  June 29, 2020

  Diet, Health, Life, Nutrition

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• Reasons Why Gaining Weight is a Good Idea

  

  On this blog, I often talk about tips and topics regarding weight loss and fat loss–specifically regarding my own personal experience with it. There are more than plenty of weight loss and fat loss dedicated posts you can check out, but I have also sprinkled some information about weight gain (healthy and unhealthy) in my…

  Cassie Tran

  June 23, 2020

  Diet, Fitness, Health, Life, Nutrition, wellness

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