Healthy and Filling Breakfast Choices
In order to stay energized throughout the day, experts suggest eating a hearty breakfast daily. The first meal of the day is usually the most important. But many people seem to neglect it or eat unhealthy choices while on the go. Some may even choose to eat a breakfast meal that simply does not provide the body’s energy needs or may even contribute to weight gain. Here are some healthy breakfast choices for you that would both be a filling meal and help provide the energy boost you need for the …
Eating Well As You Get Older
As we get older, we should pay better attention to our diet. Eating a healthy, balanced diet is the key to fighting off diseases, keeping our minds and memories sharp and keeping our activity and energy levels high. Helpguide.com recommends doing the following steps to get a healthy balanced diet:Focus on good carbohydratesFor your source of good carbs, turn to whole grains such as whole wheat bread, brown rice, and barley. Avoid refined “white” products such as white rice, white bread, or produ…
Healthy Foods for Working Women
Working women have very little time to even eat, much less prepare healthy meals. Thus, they should be able to easily include foods that provide their nutritional needs. That said, below are some super foods that all working women should incorporate in their meals and snacks:Calcium-fortified orange juice – a glass of freshly squeezed of O.J. fortified with calcium every day helps prevent PMS, high blood pressure, and osteoporosis. High fiber cereal – fiber helps counteract calories, fights canc…
Tips for Healthy Fast Foods
Just because you are eating at a fast food restaurant doesn’t mean you have no control over what you eat. Helguide.com lists down the following tips to help you eat healthy the next time you hit a fast food joint.Make careful selections If their menu offers descriptions of their dishes, pay close attention to them. Avoid dishes that are labeled deep-fried, pan-fried, basted, batter-dipped, breaded, creamy, crispy, scalloped, Alfredo, au gratin or in cream sauce. These dishes are usually high in …
Saying No to Food Cravings
Temptations abound for people who struggle to lose weight. You are starting your vegetarian diet, for instance, when your friends invite you for a night on a diner serving nothing but juicy burgers and cheesy French fries. Naturally, you would like to say no, but just thinking about those tempting food just make you want to call your friends anyway.So what should you do to control your cravings from unhealthy food? Here are some useful tips!Feel in your gut if you are “really” hungryWhenever …
Desserts for 300 Calories or Less
In the age of dieting and eating less, desserts have been wrongly labeled as “sin foods” by many diet plans simply because of its sugar content. Seriously, why keep yourself bored with a bunch of stale “diet foods” when you can still have fun eating the things you love? All it takes is using alternative ingredients and, presto, you got yourself a neat dessert in half the usual calories!Cheesecake browniesLet the smooth texture of cheesecake and decadent taste of brownie slide down your throat …
Top Foods for the Sodium-Conscious
The authors of Eat This, Not That diet program has released a report about the saltiest foods in America for 2009. After looking at the sodium content of hundreds of food items from fast food to comfort food, the report declared P. F. Chang’s Hot and Sour Soup Bowl as the saltiest of the lot with 6,878mg of sodium, which is like eating 208 saltine crackers. In fact, many health experts would discourage people from eating too much fast food, even avoiding them all together, as these have high am…
Eating Too Much Good Food
These days you can’t walk into a grocery store without noticing how just about every product has a starburst on its label extolling the health benefits of the food. With the diet trend focusing more on healthy eating, these “announcements” can easily sway an unsuspecting grocery shopper. There are two things you have to consider when buying foods with starburst-ed proclamations of goodness. First, there’s the issue of duplicity. As the one who’ll consume the supposedly healthy food, make sure th…
Party This Summer Without Putting On The Pounds
Summer is the time for cookouts and barbecues. If you don’t watch out, this could spell trouble for your summer figure. Fortunately Naturally Thin author Betheny Frankel has the solution. Frankel shares her tips to partying without the pounds to Health.com. Eat slowly. Frankel says people think eats a lot at parties because she still eating whenveryone else has finished. But the truth is, “I just eat really slowly, which means I’m eating a lot less and enjoying it more,” Frankel admits. Use the …
8 Foods to Avoid
A healthy diet does not restrict the foods you are required to eat, but just as long as they are nutritious and beneficial to your body and health. There are many foods that you actually need to avoid and stay away from to keep you and your family at risk of obesity and other diseases. Cheese fries One order of fastfood-quality cheese fries has op to 2,900 calories, way beyond your daily caloric intake. It also contains 182 grams of fat and hardly any nutritional value.Fried desserts Donuts, c…
