Reducing Risks of Getting a Chronic Disease
Monday
Jan 25, 2010
Do you know how to reduce your risk of getting one of the chronic diseases that older Americans will often get and are responsible for the majority of deaths in our country such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer? ……
Cream of Yam and Spinach Soup Recipe
Sunday
Dec 13, 2009
This is a delicious and different healthy Christmas Recipe… When you
Put spinach and yams together you produce this sensational, creamy, rich-flavored soup. ……
Amazing Health Benefits of Beets
Friday
Dec 11, 2009
Beets are known for their amazing health benefits reaching almost every part of the body. And yet, very few people eat beets, much less juice this great vegetable superfood! ……
Lamb Chops Recipe for Your Grill
Wednesday
Nov 4, 2009
Personally, I love lamb chops, what about you and your family? They are delicious eating and cooking them is easy because you can just cook them on the grill. ……
Apple-Ginger Chicken
Monday
Oct 12, 2009
Can you imagine cooking chicken in ginger, coriander, cumin, garlic and yellow mustard seeds? And to top it off serve it on top of rice with shaved lemon zest…Wow! That starts my mouth watering just to think about it. Well keep on reading… ……
Stay healthy From Kidney Stones
Thursday
Sep 3, 2009
Healthy eating is very important for all of us. We should try to be conscious of food nutrition and consume a nutritious diet of fruit, vegetables, nuts, whole grain bread and low-fat dairy products. ……
Interest in Grass-Fed Beef Growing
Tuesday
Aug 11, 2009
There is a growing trend in which business and consumers are beginning to move away from the decades of the factory-farming model that has dominated our American agriculture, and the food we eat. One such area is in the world of beef. ……
Are You Being Ripped-Off?
Friday
Jun 26, 2009
There is such a very lucrative and ready market for food companies to exploit the overweight and obese population with expensive, nutrient-poor, highly-processed, slimming ‘foods’ and diet products.
Some of these, the liquid powders you made into a drink, were made largely from skim milk powder, with added chemicals and artificial flavors. The ingredients were very cheap for the manufacturers to buy (skim milk powder is almost given away), but were very expensive for the dieter to buy. Others included inert fillers which contained no food at all.
The current low-carb ‘fad’ has allowed the food companies to widen their net to ensnare even more people with even more rip-offs, which are even more expensive. Here are some examples on sale to the ‘low-carb diet’ market.
The Atkins diet has several such products, however, they are not the only ones.
I don’t want to just point them out when there are many other manufactures that sell these kinds of products. Your store shelves are full of them. But, just to give you a small example of the rip-offs look at the following products.
Atkins Morning Shine (Chocolate Chip Crisp) is a breakfast bar. Breakfast needs to give you at least one third of the energy you need for the day. So you must think in terms of between 600 and 1,000 calories for breakfast.
There is no nutritional information on this bar – it is too small. But, according to information on the Atkins website, it will contain about 137 calories. Thus you will need five of them at least and, even with a discount, this means a very expensive breakfast!
Now, compare this with four large eggs scrambled in butter. Their cost will average more than 80% less, contain all the nutrients in the Atkins bars – and more besides – and they’ll be more natural and healthier.
Look at the Atkins Advantage Shake, it’s another such product…try and find the food in this one… If it weren’t for the soybean oil, it might be healthier than a ‘healthy’ low-fat shake but, then, that isn’t saying much.
There is slightly more real food in the Carbolite Chocolate Flavor Crisp Wafer than in the Atkins products, so it might just be slightly healthier to eat. BUT look at the price!
Carbolite also offers another bar which is called a Milk Chocolate Flavor Bar. At 28g it is the same price as the one above. Despite its name, if you look at the ingredients you will find that it contains no milk chocolate!
But that isn’t the idea, is it? These aren’t food, they are a treat. In which case, why not buy Continental dark chocolate. Financially they are not only a much better value – it’s a heck of a lot healthier as well! Too much carb? No: relax and don’t get all up tight about carbs. This should be a low-carb diet, not a NO-carb diet. You can have treats – without getting ripped off.
But if what you need is a snack, cheese (of which there are many different varieties, textures and tastes) is even healthier – as well as far better value.
What am I saying with all this? Check the ingredients in the products you are buying. Make sure you are getting what you need. Or, even better still…go natural. Snacks can be very satisfying when they consist of whole and natural foods. And in the end they will be healthier for you and may save you money.
Some Health Benefits of Eating Wild Salmon
Monday
Mar 9, 2009
There are many nutritional benefits you’ll gain from eating wild salmon. This is a delicious fish that is packed full of vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients that help to keep you in the best of health.
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Out of the Box List of Healthy Foods
Thursday
Feb 5, 2009
Perhaps you didn’t realize some of these foods were all that healthy for us. And again, you probably knew about some of thm already. Anyhow, this seems to be a list a bit different from what we’re used to reading about. check out below and incorporate what you can in your daily diet. ……




