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Have Cake. Make Gains. Stay Lean. Take advantage of the protein-first eating strategy and have some cake. It has no added sugar, no flour, and a sweet hit of protein. Protein is the secret weapon for body composition goals. In one study, women who increased their protein intake to 115 grams per...

3 Easy, No-Cook Recipes A higher protein diet solves a lot of issues. So eat cheesecake. Eat ice cream. Heck, eat pumpkin pie for breakfast. Just make 'em like this. Eat more protein. It’s the easiest way to make a positive change in your body composition. But a protein diet, or a...

The Most Filling Dessert Low calories, low carbs, no added sugar, high protein. Here's how to make it. People who eat at least .8 grams of protein per pound of body weight are leaner and better looking. Bump that up to 1 gram per pound, and, well, these folks are just too sexy for words. That's...

When sweater weather arrives, we all know what that means—it’s pumpkin-spice time. Whether you’re ready for it or not, pumpkin spice season is upon us (sorry, flip-flop fans) and clearly if fall was a flavor in America it would be this one. You’ll likely notice that every coffee shop is now...

Is Eating Pumpkin Actually Healthy? Poor pumpkin. Every Halloween the squash goes through the wringer. People leave pumpkins out in the cold on stoops and porches in the name of decoration. As if that fate weren't unkind enough, the pumpkins are later smashed by masked bands of pre-teen...

The pumpkin obsession in America is really just a thinly-veiled attempt for big food companies to sell us “seasonality” in the form of the same sugary foods with a little pumpkin-spice flavoring added to the mix. It’s a marketing gimmick. And it works. Most of those pumpkin-flavored things are...

5 Whole-Body Pumpkin Health Benefits by Julie Fidler Posted on October 8, 2015 Autumn is here, so it’s time for everyone to start experiencing some seasonal pumpkin health benefits! If you haven’t spotted pumpkin-flavored products popping up in stores all over the place yet, just wait – the...

Pumpkin/Chocolate Chip Cookies Total Time: 15 Minutes Servings: 10 Ingredients: 1/2 Cup canned pumpkin 2 scoops of Vanilla Protein Powder 1/2 Cup of rolled oats 1 1/2 cups of Greek Yogurt 2 Tbsp of natural Honey 1/2 Tsp of Vanilla Extract 1/4 Tsp of Cinnamon 2 Tbsp of Hershey's Dark...

Healthy Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies (Very slightly adapted from This Recipe at Chelsea’s Messy Apron) Ingredients: 1/2 cup organic pureed pumpkin (from a can or homemade, not pumpkin pie filling, which has sugar and other additives) 2 Tablespoons organic...