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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
 If you are a fan of cooking shows on TV, then you are probably aware of the current discussion going on regarding the responsibility of TV show chefs to practice what they preach, so to say.
This controversy stems from a popular host who features butter and sugar in the majority of her recipes. She is as far as can be from a show that gives tips on how to eat healthy. And she is not shy about trying her own recipes and touting their deliciousness.
Her approach to cooking and hosting was not of much concern until she made a surprising announcement. (more…)
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
 You have a choice about the food you eat for meals and snacks: diet food, junk food, comfort food, fast food. When you’re eating right, you choose food based on its good nutrition and its value in healthy meals.
Take meat and poultry, for example. You know that these lean protein sources can be a staple of healthy diets, if you choose to eat them.
But you might need to know even more than just facts about good nutrition. Specifically, it is worth checking into the eating plans of the animals themselves.
Why should we care about whether our food sources are eating right or on fad diets? (more…)
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
 School lunch programs can be a great way to teach children how to eat healthy and to set them up for a lifetime of healthy eating. This would be the case, at least, if school cafeterias were filled with plenty of options for good nutrition, followed true principles of eating right, and limited harmful factors like empty calories and bad fats.
But when lunch programs make up their own fad diets where a slice of pizza can be counted as a serving of vegetables, there is a problem. (more…)
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
 Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, had his own personal beliefs about healthy eating and what counts as good nutrition. He didn’t think of them as fad diets, but rather how to eat healthy in unconventional ways. See if you think he was eating right or hurting his health. (more…)
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011
 How do you sweeten the foods and drinks that are part of your healthy meals?
With so many choices out there, I am sure we would get a lot of different answers to this question. Of course, with many options, comes lots of information, including some that is truthful, some that bends the truth, and some that conveniently leaves out the truth.
So how do you know what type of sweetener to use in your healthy eating plan?
A plant called stevia answers your questions about how to eat healthy while adding some sweetness. (more…)
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
 After reading the title, you might think I am about to talk about all the tasty things you are missing out on when you choose healthy eating over fast food diets.
This is far from the truth. Keep reading to find out one more reason to favor whole foods and their natural good nutrition over anything processed, no matter how “healthy” it claims to be. (more…)
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
 If you are a busy person … aren’t we all? … and trying to really take the concepts of healthy diets to heart, there is one big thing you need to be aware of. Convenience foods. These are the foods that come packaged with some of the preparation steps already done for you, and they are not healthy eating shortcuts like you might want to believe.
Some convenience foods do contain wholesome ingredients. After all, a bag of frozen seasoned vegetables contains a staple diet food, right? Of course vegetables need to be in your diet, but their good nutrition can be overshadowed by all the ingredients and artificial additives that are thrown in.
Preservatives and other additives don’t really have a place in healthy meals. (more…)
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
 If you have kids, or have ever been around kids when they choose their favorite snacks, you know what they like to eat most: bright, colorful, sweet or salty snacks. What kid doesn’t get excited over chewy red, green, purple, orange, and yellow “fruit” snacks? Or bright orange chips that turn their fingers a funny color?
This is more than just kids having fun with their food. This is a healthy eating sabotage. (more…)
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
You might be at risk of developing a life-altering condition and you have no idea because your doctor doesn’t mention it. It’s not the latest health catch-phrase that your friends bring up. Nobody talks about it, but it is serious.
And it could affect you if you’re not eating right.
The condition is called metabolic syndrome. People who have it are at a high risk of developing cardiovascular disease. If your heart is unhealthy, many catastrophic things can happen in your body.
Since nobody talks about metabolic syndrome, how can you know if you have it? It might seem logical that if you’re eating diet food and experiencing healthy weight loss, you don’t have to worry about this condition. But that is not the case. (more…)
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
 What is a whole grain carb? What’s a good carb? A bad carb? When am I supposed to be eating some of these carbs in my healthy meals?
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