This post comes from Nutritional Twins.com
If you’re like our friends and our clients, you’re wondering if cutting out lectins from your diet will help you with weight loss and make you healthier, or if it’s just another fad diet. If you’re thinking about trying it, here’s the scoop, including what foods to eat on a lectin-free diet as well as which foods are highest in lectins.
What exactly is the lectin free diet? And what is the thinking behind cutting out foods with lectins?
If you’ve been looking for a healthy and satisfying homemade protein bar that’s easy to make, packed with wholesome, anti-inflammatory ingredients and fiber and –that you can grab for a sweet tasting snack on-the-go, these No-Bake Chocolate Protein Bars are about to be your new bestie. We’re pretty psyched about these–they turned out really well and were so easy to make and kind of taste like a hot chocolate flavored Rx bar (the texture reminds us of Rx bars a little, dare we say a tastier, less expensive Copy Cat RX bar! 😉 ). We love that the ingredients are super simple (vegan & gluten-free too!), and the method is too — basically just mix and press into a pan! Not bad for a protein-packed, fiber-filled protein bar that you can make part of your everyday healthy snack routine.
We wanted to make sure that our delicious and healthy homemade snack bar creation was a far cry from our early day protein bar experiences (and from many of the bars on the market), which we falsely believed were healthy on-the-go fuel. When we were in high school we relied on our daily snack routine (an apple and peanut butter) to boost our energy and tide us over between school soccer practice and club team practice. The idea of a bar that we could grab on the go and that was purported to fuel workouts and to help muscles to repair with protein—and that tasted like a candy bar (score for our sweet tooth!) had us sold! The only issue… the “healthy snack” was the nutritional equivalent of a candy bar –full of artery-clogging saturated fat, sugar and not too much else.