McKel Hill

This recipe uses those golden babes plus fresh strawberries from the farmers market with a boost of protein using one of my favorite vanilla plant-based protein powders that I’ve been hooked on lately. Strawberries are one of my favorite summer fruits not just because of their delicious flavor, but because they’re rich in antioxidants, vitamin C, manganese, iodine, folate and other B vitamins, copper, potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus. The healthy fats from coconut milk will keep you satiated as well as the boost of protein from the new Kashi GoLean Vanilla Vinyasa plant-based protein powder I’ve been enjoying lately. Ingredients I used for this recipe: organic coconut milk, Kashi GoLean Vanilla Vinyasa protein, The Peach Truck peaches. p.s.

Although numerous studies show drinking coffee can improve health from lowering risk of certain types of cancer, Parkinson’s disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and heart disease, caffeine in coffee might not be great for everyone. I never knew how much I relied on the caffeine in coffee to “wake me up” for the day until I was laying in bed one Sunday morning Some people show that caffeine doesn’t affect sleep at all, whereas others couldn’t sleep after drinking caffeine late in the day (8). Some of us are “slow metabolizers” of caffeine (due to a gene called CYP1A2), which basically means you process caffeine slowly which can increase your chances for impaired fasting glucose (6), heart disease (1), and hypertension (7).