Healthy Eating Tips

How To Eat Smarter and Healthier
Learn how to make smarter and healthier choices in food without compromising flavor and taste.

10 Tips For Boosting Your Energy

A fourth cup of coffee isn’t what you need to get through that energy slump. Try a few “you-friendly” remedies instead.

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.

Whether it’s Atkins, Beach diet, or one of the many other low or no carb diets you are practicing, low carb food lists become necessary to living day-to-day with your diet.

Here are two low carb food lists that may help you achieve your weight loss goals and one low carb list that you can use to limit your carb intake.

Low Carb Food List No.1
Zuchini
Tomatoes
Apples
Peaches
Grapes
Salmon
Skim Milk
Shrimp
Nuts
Whole grain breads, low or no sugar

Low Carb Food List No.2
Carrots
Broccoli
Chicken (Skinless)
Turkey
Fresh trout
Tuna
Fat-free yogurt
Eggs
Olive Oil
Water

Foods With Higher Carbs
White bread
Breaded meats (chicken fingers, breaded fish)
Potatoes
Soft drinks
Fruit Drinks full of sugar
Pastries
Cookies
Bagels
Chips

By watching what you eat, placing more of your foods into the top two lists, you can move toward your rapid weight loss goals with ease.

1. Eat often, but eat less. Your body should not need to wait hours before its next meal. You need to provide it with the fuel it needs consistently. Eat a meal every few hours that is much smaller.

2. Snacks are the ideal meal between big meals. But, do not go for empty calories or poor nutrition. Great choices for snacks are vegetables, fruits, salads, and nuts. These provide high levels of minerals and vitamins your body is craving.

3. Get your energy from all the food groups. Carbohydrates are ideal for times when you are pushing yourself hard. They are perfect for a workout. But, you do not want to cover them with bad stuff either. Go without the butter and without the dressing.

4. Breakfast is essential. Your body needs a kick start in the morning to get the metabolism moving. It also gets your body working the right way from the start.

5. Skip late night meals. They will not provide you with anything necessary for your health. You need to provide your body with nutrients so that it can do things. Food is fuel, not needed for sleeping!

Good Fats are the naturally-occurring, traditional fats that haven’t been damaged by high heat, refining, processing or other man-made tampering, such as “partial hydrogenation”. The best of these kinds of fats are found in fish, nuts, avocados, seeds, and even fresh creamery butter. The “Good” fats include monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats:

• Monounsaturated fats are found in olive oil, canola oil, peanuts and other nuts, peanut butter, and avocados. Monounsaturated fats lower total cholesterol and lower “bad” LDL cholesterol levels in our bodies. LDL cholesterol accumulates in and clogs artery walls. Monounsaturated fats also help to maintain levels of “good” HDL cholesterol, which carries cholesterol away from artery walls and delivers it to the liver for disposal.

• Omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fats found in coldwater fish, canola oil, flaxseeds, walnuts, almonds, and macadamia nuts. Recent studies have shown that populations that eat more omega-3s, such as Eskimos (whose diets are heavy on fish), have fewer serious health problems such as heart disease and diabetes. There is evidence that omega-3 oils help prevent or treat depression, arthritis, asthma, colitis, and cardiovascular disease.

Are you aware that the major health problems in “modern” countries are caused by tobacco, obesity, poor nutrition, lack of exercise? Various health agencies say that such self abuse causes at least 7 of 10 deaths through resulting chronic diseases.

In other words, the majority of us are committing slow suicide by treating our biological machines as if we are only renting, able to move into other bodies if we just place a down payment and sign a contract for some low APR. Yet news reports tell us how bad our escalating health costs are, and how they will bankrupt this country, if military or other Federal expenses don’t succeed first.

Fortunately, I am not the only person who has taken heed, and changed life style to include better diet and daily moderate exercise.

The sad truth is that corrective action really is not that difficult. All we have to do is think, and be honest with ourselves. After all, “think” is not a four letter word.

If you crave food between meals, snack on raw vegetables, fruits, un-salted nuts, raisins, and similar. I have found that “GORP” (Good Old Raisins and Peanuts) or raisins with almonds taste extremely sweet without added sugar. The fairly small amount of unsaturated fats in the nuts will do a lot to ward off hunger.

When I realized / admitted that my muscles were pretty out of condition, I started with stretches and walking, then researched such sources as Charles Atlas, Jack La Lanne, and army calisthenics for a self regulated range of exercises which cost next to nothing, and can be done in times and places of my choice. For bad weather, I admit to having a paddle wheel exer-cycle, but brisk walking in shopping centers or other large buildings also works.

I had taken my body for granted. Now I am in better health and fitness than when I passed age 60, feel and sleep better, don’t get tired so easily, feel more alert. And my weight is the same as in my mid teen years.

My two health books and numerous free articles show that taking ownership and responsibility for one’s body is not that difficult. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that some health advice violates biology, chemistry, physics, or just plain common sense. If the providers of advice want you to pay for more than the basic information, be skeptical, such as for magic pills to control weight.

The rewards are simply great. Slow the aging process, resist even scary diseases, lower medical costs, and on and on.

It nauseates me to see people running after magic pills, worthless dietary supplements, and fad diets. The truth is available on the internet if you search out good sources of information. You don’t have to trust just one reference.

Let the truth make you free from health and wealth robbing magic revelations.