Posts Tagged ‘eating right’
Monday, April 30th, 2012
 Processed food has nothing to do with healthy eating. Consumers know this, food manufacturers know this, the FDA knows this, yet processed food is still flying off the shelves at the grocery store.
In fact, out of all the money Americans spend on food, 90% of it is allocated to processed foods. Knowing that processed food is cheaper than whole diet food makes that statistic look even worse.
In case you need to be reminded how to eat healthy, let’s go over some of the reasons why processed food works better with fad diets than healthy diets. (more…)
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012
 Coffee. Sugar. Soda. Candy.
You’ve tried it all to wake yourself up during that time between lunch and dinner, when your eyelids are heavy and brain needs a jump start to be productive.
These methods may or may not have worked for you before.
Either way, you should try to get through the afternoon with healthy eating and good nutrition. Doing a little bit of prep work and knowing how to eat healthy throughout the day can give you that perfectly timed pep without getting you off the healthy weight loss track. (more…)
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
 How good was your knowledge of healthy diets in high school? Would you have graduated if you had to pass “how to eat healthy”?
High school students in France will have a legitimate reason to worry about healthy eating if one doctor gets his way.
He thinks a body weight component should be added to an assessment that high school students take at the end of their career. The test traditionally measures academic skills and knowledge, and it is similar to the SAT or ACT in that it is the stepping stone between high school and college.
The doctor believes that students should earn credit on this test for being at a healthy weight.
There are a few different ways to look at this controversial idea. (more…)
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
 Just one small bite.
It’s only a taste.
It won’t do anything to your healthy weight loss plans.
Thoughts like these can easily steer your healthy eating off course. Those times when you’re faced with something that is most definitely not diet food but you have a little anyway… they add up.
Healthy diets don’t mean you eat vegetables and water 24 hours a day. But they do require you to put some thought into how to eat healthy. (more…)
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Friday, March 2nd, 2012
 Your kitchen can be your perfect partner or your biggest adversary when it comes to healthy eating.
If you followed the tips from the last post, then you are well on your way to making the most out of preparing diet food at home.
Remember that one of the most effective ways to conform to a healthy lifestyle and achieve healthy weight loss is to eat whole foods. (more…)
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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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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
 In realistic healthy diets, you are going to splurge every once in awhile on things that are definitely not considered diet food. What would happen if you could make these treats healthier by adding something that is easy to obtain and contains really good nutrition? (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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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
 You hear it over and over again: eat your vegetables and fruit.
There are numerous reasons why produce in healthy meals is a staple of eating right. The benefits are attributed to a lot of different good nutrition that fruits and vegetables have in common, like fiber. But one type of nutrients – antioxidants – turns this diet food into a super brain food. (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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