Posts Tagged ‘healthy eating’

Bruschetta – Healthy Eating

Gluten Free Chicken Marsala – Healthy Eating

If the word ‘fat’ on a label makes you run the other way, stop. Some fats that are good for you, according to author and registered dietician Elizabeth Somer. Here’s how to incorporate the healthy fats into your diet.

Whenever we get too busy or stressed, we all tend to make bad food choices that will actually make us feel more stress and cause other problems. To get the most of your healthy eating and avoid stress, follow these simple tips.

Always eat breakfast in the morning
Even though you don’t feel like you want eat, you need to eat something. Not having breakfast in the morning makes it hard to maintain the right blood and sugar levels during the day, so you should always eat something.

Carry some snacks with you
Keeping some protein heavy snacks in your car, office, or pocket will help you avoid blood sugar level dips, the accompanying mood swings, and the fatigue. Trail mix, granola bars, and energy bars all have the nutrients you need.

Healthy munchies
If you like to munch when you’re stressed out, you can replace chips, sweets or other non healthy foods with carrot sticks, celery sticks..etc

Pack your lunch
Most people prefer to eat fast food for lunch or even dinner, you can save some money and eat healthier if you take a few minutes and take your own lunch. If you do this a few
times a week you’ll see a much better improvement over eating out.

Stock good foods
Get the good food! The best way to do this is to plan a list of healthy meals at the beginning of the week, list the ingedients you need, then go shop for it. This way, you’ll know what you want when you need it and you won’t have to stress over what food to buy and eat.

Any food eaten beyond what your system requires for its energy, growth, and repair, is fattening, or is an irritant, or both.

If a food contains much fat, you will know that it is high in food value, for fat has two and one-quarter times the caloric value that proteins and carbohydrates have. Dry foods are high in value, for they are concentrated and contain little water. Compare the quantity of two heaping teaspoonfuls of sugar, a concentrated food, and one and one-half pounds of lettuce, a watery vegetable, each having the same caloric value. A moderate sized chocolate cream is not only concentrated but has considerable fat in the chocolate.

It is not necessary to know accurately the caloric values. In fact, authorities differ in some of their computations. The list is not mathematically correct, but it will give you a good idea of the relative values, and is accurate enough for our purposes. I have purposely given round numbers, where possible, in order to make them more easily remembered.

A mixture of foods should be used, in order to get the different elements which are necessary for the human machine. It is not wholesome to have many foods at a meal; but the menu should be varied from day to day.