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Choose Your Eating Habit With Healthy Food

January 22nd, 2010

As you may know, healthy eating habit is necessary for your life. For many people, health is the most expensive thing that should be taken from a lot of methods including how they choose the food to eat. It’s not only about delicious food, but it’s also all about balanced and moderate eating, consisting of healthy meals at least three times per day and exactly with a good menu. People need to eat many different types of foods, not limiting themselves to one specific food type or group. Food as a primary of people need precisely contains a lot of substances inside. Not at all of foods are good. Some of them even cause disease for human being. People need healthy food that can help to prevent or reduce the severity of diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and others. It may also help reducing the risk of developing some cancers. A main way of combating obesity and overweight is to eat a healthy food. Choose your eating habit with healthy food isn’t difficult to do. These are some easy tips you can apply in your daily life and even you don’t need to spend much money because it’s cheap food.Eat Plenty Fruits and VegetablesIt is recommended that we eat at least 5 portions, and ideally 7-9 portions, of a variety of fruit or vegetables each day. They contain a lot of fibers which can help you keeping the bowels healthy. Be sure you serve fruit or vegetables at every meal.Eat nutritious healthy food It can give the body all the nutrition it needs in order to maintain good health. It shouldn’t contain any harmful substances. Some other good resources of nutrition are lean meat and protein resources, such as fish, eggs, beans, and nuts. Don’t eat too much fat, choose healthier cooking methodsDeep fried foods aren’t good for you and your family. Choose low fat dairy products and when you want to cook your recipes, try to cook them with better methods, such as broiling, grilling, roasting, and steaming. It’s better than fried ones which can give you fatty supply. But if you want to cook fries, choose liquid oils for cooking instead of solid fats that can be high in saturated and transform fats. Limit fast food and low nutrient snacksYour children usually like eating snacks and fast food such as candy, chips, soda, etc. You should limit it but don’t completely ban your favorite snacks at home. Make them ‘once in a while’ food, so kids don’t feel disappointed. Also beware with sugary drinks. Serve water and low fat milk instead.Eating too much of even healthful foods can lead to weight gain. Watch your portion sizes. It’s easy for food to become a source of conflict, but it’s better for you to change your daily habit of food consuming before disease attack your body. Trying to find more healthy recipe and food will give more benefits for your family life. Health is expensive, once you get healthy, more you can do.

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8 Quck Steps To Get Healthier Fast

January 9th, 2010

1. Stop eating fast food ! Fast food is just that fast food that’s prepared fast and 9 x out of 10 unhealthy. Because of the low nutrition count it does the body bad. If you want to eat something fast try fruit. If you can organic fruit or grown local fruit would be the best.2. Stop using hydrogenated oils or trans fats. Succinctly, hydrogenation is the process of heating an oil and passing hydrogen bubbles through it. It because a very cheap oil economically and that’s why a lot of fast food restaurants and conventional restaurants use them. Hydrogen oils contain high levels of trans fats. Trans fat is a normal fatty and that has been trans magnified, by high heat processing when you eat these oils it like inhaling cigarettes smoke. Please read food labels and if you eat out ask what type of oils do they use.3. Stop using toxic cleaning products Make sure your cleaning products have no chlorine, phosphates fillers or added fragrance. Furthermore, make sure it’s not harmful to the environment. Conventional cleaning products usually contain Doc’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) which are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. These compound can have short term or long term health effects.4. Eat lots of organic berries and beans Beans and berries are powerful foods that are high in antioxidants. Antioxidants have the ability to protect the body from free radicals which may cause many health problems and premature aging. Eat as much as possible because they do the body good.5. Stop smoking and drinking. Smoking and drinking are the greatest terrorists to your health there is. There is a huge amount of studies to prove this. Therefore, if you want to really boost your health simply stay away from these mass weapons of destruction.6. Deep breath more. If you were to stop breathing for only a few minutes what would happen.That’s right death would reign supreme. Deep breathing is one of the most pivotal things can do for health. Just a few minutes a day will make reap major health benefits. Simply inhale through nose deeply and expand your abdomen hold for 5 seconds and exhale through through mouth. Do five rounds and see how you fee.7. Take green tea extract. Studies have shown many health benefits for example:Green tea extract protects against liver damage.Green tea extract is anti-bacterialGreen tea helps lower cholesterolGreen tea reduces inflammationGreen tea lowers blood pressureGreen Tea helps in weight lossThe list can go on and on. You want to take at least 300mg a day. If you prefer drinking make sure it has at least 100mg.8.Think Optimistically. Thoughts are things. Therefore, you want to think about what you want predominately. If you want health think healthy some things that will add in you thinking optimistically is abstaining from television the news, gossips and negative people.Fire it up, get busy, and release your health inner guru. Your mind body and spirit will make love to you for it. These 8 steps are easy and bring fast results. Therefore, if your’re ready to go on the journey of your life start stepping!By Ka Ntru

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How to Have Fantastic Health in 7 Easy Steps and Breakthrough Inspirations and Revelations. I am the communicator, farmer, motivator, knowledge hit man, naturalist, green enthusiast, lover, spiritualist, life coach, consultant, father, friend and made in the image and likeness of goddess/god. I grew up on a farm in Georgia and was bless to a green lifestyle from my inception. Therefore, I have been living green for 30+ years.
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Eating on the Go – Avoid the Fast Food Trap!

December 31st, 2009

“I am on the go” – an expression we often hear, is often accompanied with a bad habit of poor eating choices. With a little bit of behavior change and discipline, ditching the fast food for a healthier alternative can easily be done.

If you are on a bad spiral of being ‘on the go’ coupled with unhealthy fast food eating habits, do yourself a favor and make a change. Here are some tips.

Your best bet is to ‘brown bag’ it. Follow this simple procedure:Step 1: Get a small size cooler, one big enough for a small freezer pack to keep food cool. Step 2: Pack your meals and snacks.

Okay, it is a little more involved than that. What to pack?

Passionately involved with helping others achieve weight loss and fitness goals for 20 years, author David P. Morrow shares all of his discoveries in: “Fat Into The Fire” ‘The simple missing links to maximize metabolism, energy, and yourself’. State Of Mind, Fuel, and Physical. His goal is to provide guidance, motivation, and education.
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Eating Healthy In A Fast Food World

December 31st, 2009

Rushing to Eat
People’s lives have become so busy and rushing around, that we no longer eat the way we should. In some places, there is a McDonald’s on every major corner, if not some other fast food restaurant. Watching TV, you see a commercial for some kind of food place almost every time commercials are on, urging you to eat there because it’s good and you can get it fast and cheap. With so many distractions and obligations, families have these days, how do you eat healthy in a fast food world? It’s not an easy thing to do but is possible with planning and knowing what to look for. This isn’t to say fast food can’t be consumed occasionally, but it should be less often than people are doing it now. Not to mention that our food is so processed that it takes five minutes to cook and has high carbohydrates among other things that are not digested quickly. This is leading to obesity in the population.
The Truth About Whole Grain
Because food is so processed these days to make it faster to cook, as well as more convenient for the way our lives have become, it is actually not as good for you as it once was. Recently the food administration even changed the food pyramid to coincide with how we eat these days and food is made. They are suggesting more whole grains than ever before, as well as vegetables. This may sound like what has been told to children for years, but even whole grains are deceiving on packaging these days. With all the new diets out there for low carb, no carb, low fat, no fat, etc., foods are coming out that say whole grain but are just as processed as its white counterpart. They are made with enriched wheat. This process takes out all the nutrients and other things that take time to digest for a healthy life. Reading the ingredient is a good way to find the real whole grain product. They are now more expensive than the over processed product because manufacturers could make the enriched version cheaper and faster. To eat healthy you have to read the labels of everything you consume.
Healthy Choices at Fast Food Eateries
The truth is that you really can’t eat healthy at any fast food restaurant. They aren’t designed for those trying or needing to watch what they put in their mouth. But you can make better decisions. Don’t’ eat the bread if you can stand not too. It’s along the lines of the South Beach Diet but that’s where lots of your weight gaining properties are. Don’t get anything fried, this includes French fries, onion rings, or even fried chicken. Get a diet pop, tea, or water. Avoid the desert and the salad, both have sugar in them and I don’t just mean in the toppings. Watch “Super Size Me” for a real eye opener. The show is on McDonald’s but you can bet that all fast food restaurants are basically the same. Limit how often you eat fast food to once per week, if that fast. Get a wrap at Subway instead of a toasted sub. Less bread and just as filling with all the fixings you want. When you get pizza, get vegetables on it so you aren’t just eating bread, sauce, cheese, and pepperoni. Remember just how bad fast food is for you, your waistline, and your cholesterol. Even if you are fifteen, you should be thinking about how it will affect you later in life. Starting early will make it easier on your body as you age.
Eating at Home
The best thing to do is find a way to cook meals most nights of the week. This can take planning and team work. Have at least one non-meat dish every week. It doesn’t have to be fish or seafood either. Don’t use fast cooking rich to go with your meals. Those are again loaded with carbohydrates, which take your body longer to break down and will make you hungry sooner than you should be. Plan weekly meals so that you can cook casseroles and other easy to reheat dishes early in the week for days you will not have time to cook. Utilize your crock-pot and get a recipe book for it. You can make just about anything in a crock pot these days and have a good meal when you get home. Have salad a few times a week with dinner, but watch how much dressing you put on it. Have desert, but make it Jell-O. Indulge once in a while to though and it won’t feel like you are depriving yourself of anything.

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The Best Fast Food Choices for Weight Loss

December 27th, 2009

While fast food is typically not going to fit the definition of healthy, it certainly can be included as a part of a balanced diet. Here are my favorite suggestions for making the best choice at a fast food restaurant:

1. A salad is always the best choice as you will be consuming vegetables. A salad that is made with dark green leafy lettuce as opposed to iceberg is far superior in nutrition. Choose grilled chicken or lean meats on your salad for your protein choice. Be aware that the salad dressing is what can make this very healthy choice a disaster. Ask for the salad dressing on the side and dip the tines of your fork into the dressing and then into the salad. You will not feel deprived, as you will still have salad dressing on each bite. This is called the “dipping technique” and will drastically cut your fat and calorie intake at this meal, even if you choose the regular-fat dressing choice.

2. The best sandwich choice by far is the grilled chicken breast with barbeque sauce. Skip the mayonnaise that has just as much fat as butter. Although the bun is always made with refined, white flour, which offers little in the way of fiber, it only contains 2 grams of fat per bun.

3. If you are getting tired of eating grilled chicken breast, choose the regular hamburger. Again, skip the mayo. Ask that lettuce, tomato and pickles be added to your burger to add some nutrition and increase the volume of your meal.

4. Limit the choices that indicate that they are fried. The term “crispy” or “crusted” usually indicates that the item has been deep-fried. Instead, eat your favorite fried food choices at home and bake them to create an “oven-fried” healthier option.

5. When you are choosing a menu item that is higher in fat, be sure to drink water instead of a sugary soda with it. The “sugar-fat combination” is the optimal combination for body fat storage. If you really want to have a soda, drink it an hour or so later and think of it as your dessert.

6. Soft serve ice cream is an excellent dessert option. The ice cream is low in fat and calories. It also contains calcium, which has been recently found to be correlated to greater success in losing weight and maintaining lean body mass.

7. Eating to the point of uncomfortable or full is not advised, whether you are eating fast food or any food. Eating to this level causes your body to increase its lipogenic (fat storing) enzymes.

Jill Fleming, MS, RD is a Registered Dietitian, author of the book Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates and the owner of ThinChoices.com.

Jill Fleming, MS, RD is a highly sought-after motivational speaker & Registered Dietitian. She wrote the book Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates: Simple Lifestyle Choices for Permanent Weight Loss to help Americans in their never-ending quest for the “magic bullet” to weight loss. Jill says losing weight permanently is about choices, not diets.
Jill leads by example. She lost 38 pounds 15 years ago using the THIN CHOICES® concepts she encourages overweight, tired and prematurely aging individuals to adopt. Jill says the dieting “all-or-nothing” approach to weight loss is making us fat.
Jill was the cover model for Woman’s World March 2005. She is featured as the nutrition expert for magazines and radio shows, including: Redbook, Family Circle, Men’s Muscle & Fitness, Woman’s Health & Fitness, Health, HealthNewsDigest.com, Health Matters World Talk Radio, Donna Seebo Show, New York’s WFAN and Stu Taylor Show (WBIX Radio Boston).
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Fast Food Trades…For When You Are on the Go!

December 26th, 2009

If you are a busy person, running here and there, always in your car, taking kids to school, commuting to and from work, running errands, it can be difficult to make healthy food choices. Navigating the menus at local fast food restaurants is tricky, and the right choice seems to be just out of reach at times. With some simple switches, you can lower your calorie counts without sacrificing taste. Here are a few ideas:
• For your morning coffee, switch from a Latte or Mocha made with whole milk to a cappuccino or other coffee blended drink make with skim or non-fat milk. Or order a hot tea for the caffeine, with zero calories.
• If you are ordering lunch at a sandwich shop, skip the Tuna Sub, because the restaurants are very likely to be using full-fat mayonnaise. Switch to a Turkey or Roast Beef Sub on wheat bread, and hold the mayo. Mustard packs 5 little calories in a typical serving, and will give your sandwich the moisture you crave, with more flavor and no fat.
• For your sides at sandwich shops, go for the baked chips instead of the regular potato chips. The oil and grease will be skipped, and you will still get the same flavor as your favorite variety. You can also sub in pretzels or some places offer apple slices.
• If you are driving through the Drive-Thru at a fast food chain, opt for a grilled chicken sandwich on a wheat bun or protein-style with no mayonnaise, instead of any sandwich that is labeled “crispy” or “fried”.
• If you are in the mood for a burger, skip the large “signature” burgers at fast food places, or anything that they are currently advertising. Indulge in a small, plain burger. You can add ketchup and mustard, pickles, tomatoes and lettuce, but skip the cheese and mayo or any kind of “special sauce”.
• Fries are the normal accompaniment to most burgers and chicken sandwiches, but you can forgo those and ask for a small side salad and save big on the calories.
• If you are in need of a snack, and chocolate is the snack of choice, you could have a small chocolate bar with peanuts, but if you skip that and choose a mini-version of your favorite energy bar, or s small morsel of dark chocolate, you will be able to curb your craving for sweets, while saving calories trough portion size.
• Instead of a chocolate, vanilla or strawberry shake, stop into a convenience store or market and pick up a bottle of vegetable juice or a small protein shake. Many shakes from fast food places are made with ice cream.
It is possible to eat healthfully on the go. Navigating between menu items can be hard, but if you pick a healthier restaurant in general it will be an easier task. Choosing a place that does not have a fryer or a griddle will keep you away from dangerous items. Or always ordering your burgers wrapped in lettuce instead of eating a bun can save you. Passing on the mayonnaise is always a must-do, because mustard will do the trick and save you many calories. Many employees at these restaurants are knowledgeable on what the healthier choices are, and fast food restaurants usually have a pamphlet with their calorie and fat content for menu items listed. Grab one from each of your favorite fast food joints and keep it in your car for quick reference. You will soon be on your way to healthy food, on the go!

How to Lose Weight With Eating Fast Food

December 21st, 2009
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Healthy Fast Food Menu Options

December 20th, 2009
Danna Schneider is the owner and primary contributor for several websites about health, beauty and weight management including the herbal and natural remedy information portal Herbal Remedies and Natural Treatment Reviews and also this one where she reviews diet products, various popular diets and weightloss techniques and tips and tricks to lose weight Diet Product Reviews and Weight Loss Tips .
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How to Make Healthier Choices When Eating at Fast Food Restaurants

December 19th, 2009

We all know that eating at fast food restaurants is terrible for our health. It makes us fat, lazy, bloated and sick. Just one cheeseburger will double your daily calorie requirement, and the salads, yogurts and diet sodas they sell are not really all that much healthier. They are the biggest reason for the obesity epidemic in America today, and there does not seem to be any way of making them disappear from our ever growing suburban landscapes.

If you are really serious about getting or staying in shape, fast food restaurants are not on your path to success. Sometimes, though, these restaurants may seem like the only option other than starvation. Long road trips, co-worker lunches, and other situations may force you into choosing between bad or worse. This can be devastating to anyone trying to lose weight or trying to change their bad eating habits to good.

Listed below are 7 tips that will help you make healthier choices if you are ever forced to eat fast food. It is inevitably going to happen in todays fast paced world. You might as well be prepared!

Fast Food Healthier Choice Tips #1: Get Less For Your MoneySo-called value meals really only offer you extra calories, saturated fat, sugar, and other diet killers. The only way this could be beneficial is if you are saving up for bypass surgery. Getting twice as many fries for only 20 cents more is not a good deal. Fast food packs a lot of unhealthiness into a small package as it is, so super-sizing it is only adding fuel to the fire.

Think about it this way. Is 20 cents really worth eating an entire weeks worth of fat and calories in one sitting? Paying extra to ruin your health makes no sense. Ordering the small size may not be as cheap per pound of food, but it will save a fortune when working off pounds of fat later.

Fast Food Healthier Choice Tips #2: Discover Your Inner Child Sadly, a reasonably sized portion for an adult is now only found on the children’s menu! Want to get healthy sides like fruit or carrots? Again, only on the childrens menu! It is great that kids are getting healthier options, but what about adults? We need good nutrition too! Don’t be ashamed to order the junior hamburger or even the kids’ meal. You are the only one who can control what you eat and how much of it.

Fast Food Healthier Choice Tips #3: No All Salads Are Created EqualJust because it has lettuce does not mean it is healthy. A Big Mac has lettuce, and you know it would not be any healthier if it was called a Big Mac Salad. Don’t be fooled by clever naming tricks. Use common sense when selecting a salad, and make sure all the ingredients are vegetables, fruits, and lean proteins you recognize. Also, do not go through all that effort just to drown your healthy meal in a pool of fatty dressing! Ask for vinaigrette.

Fast Food Healthier Choice Tips #4: Have It Your WayMost restaurants honor your requests if you ask them. Hold the mayo and high-corn-syrup ketchup, and ask for more pickles, tomatoes and lettuce. Substitute the breaded chicken breast for the grilled chicken breast. Ask for extra vegetables. Ask for wheat buns instead of white. And by all means, hold the cheese! Most of the time you can not savor the flavor when it is packed into a sandwich anyway.

Fast Food Healthier Choice Tips #5: You Are What You Drink The most profitable menu items for restaurants are soft drinks. Costing almost nothing to make, they want you to get as big a size as possible and pay for it. What you’ll get is tons of sugar and chemicals. And maybe eventually, diabetes! Soda and diet soda will ruin your figure and your health. Order iced tea or water instead. If someone is holding a gun to your head and making you order a soda, get the small.

Of course the best advice I can give you is to make your own fast food at home in the form of a soy-based protein meal replacement. This is how I lost 70 pounds in 4 months and have kept it off for over 15 years. It usually takes me about 3 minutes to make, which is less time than it takes to wait in the drive-thru line at any McDonalds.

I rarely go to fast food restaurants anymore, but when I do I follow the tips listed above. Losing weight and keeping it off for good is about making healthy decisions about what you eat, no matter where you are eating.

Bill Winch is a Personal Wellness Coach whose mission is teaching and coaching others who are struggling with getting healthy, losing weight safely and keeping it off for good. He is also a Certified Business Growth Specialist, former High School and College Business Educator and Counselor, and mentors from his home office in Rochester, NY. If you are interested in receiving his Free Report “9 Weight Loss Myths Exposed” visit his website by clicking on FREE REPORT or by calling him directly at (585) 271-3767 for a free wellness consultation.
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Make Your Food Your Friend

December 3rd, 2009

The food you choose to eat, can be your answer to a healthy, vibrant body or it can be the cause of your sick body. The fact is, we need good nutrition for good health. Good nutrition can be broken into four categories: water, carbohydrates, protein and fat.

WATER; water is an essential nutrient involved in every function of the body. It helps transport nutrients and waste products in and out of cells. We need to drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of pure water each day.

CARBOHYDRATES; carbohydrates supply the body with energy. The best carbohydrates are from plants and include: fruits, vegetables, legumes (peas, beans) or milk and milk products. Young children require higher amounts of dairy products as they grow. Adults should refrain from too many dairy products, because they are acid forming foods.

PROTEIN; Protein is essential for growth and development as it provides energy and is required to manufacture hormones, antibodies, enzymes and tissue. The correct proteins also help maintain the proper acid-alkaline balance in the body. Protein can be found in meat, fish, poultry, eggs, hemp hearts, grains, legumes, leafy green vegetables, beans, brown rice, some nuts, milk and dairy products.

FATS; fat is the most concentrated source of energy. Children require more fat for normal brain development. All humans need fat to provide energy to the body. We get our fat from animal and dairy products, as well as the different types of oil.These are the recommended healthy oils;Butter, Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Hemp Oil, and Grape Seed Oil. Some fats are good for us and others are not. It is important for a person to research the information on good fats versus bad fats.

There are many different eating plans and each person must find one that suits their body and lifestyle.

The newest health information is now suggesting that over 50% of all the food that we consume should come from vegetables and fruits. The Canadian Cancer Society suggests 8 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Most of these should be raw. You have the knowledge about the basic foods we need to maintain a healthy body. Don’t forget; we also need, high quality nutritional products to help us live longer and healthier lives. Here is the rest of the story.

FOODS WE SHOULD ELIMINATE

There are many foods that we all like to eat, but they can be harmful and don’t offer any nutritional value. We should eliminate these foods from our diets: All white food, white flour, white sugar, white rice, and white pasta. Junk food; such as soda, candy and chips. Prepackaged foods, frozen dinners, commercially prepared frozen foods. Processed meats, commercially canned foods, such as vegetables, fruits, baby foods, juices, sauces, condiments and margarine.

Right now you might be feeling overwhelmed, but if you start slowly and change your shopping habits bit by bit, your taste buds will change and you will embrace the new eating plan. Soon you will have a healthy, vibrant body!

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