Learn to Love: Persimmons
Now that berry season is long gone, I’m expanding my breakfast fruit horizons. Celebrate the cold weather with pomegranate seeds in your oatmeal , or slice pears or persimmons and serve them with nut butter on toast or whole-grain waffles . You probably know how to pick and slice a pear, but persimmons...
Food Review: Forze GPS Shakes and Bars
I’m typically wary of fitness drinks with gold packaging; they remind me of the weird muscle-building brands I see at the gym. But when I read the label on Forze GPS shakes and bars, I was intrigued. This line of snacks, including chocolate and vanilla shakes and four flavors of energy bar, is...
Review: GU Espresso Love Energy Gel
I have been experimenting with different sports gels lately. My latest venture into the world of gooey non-food energy supplements was Espresso Love by GU and it felt like I was going back to the source, since I think of GU as the originator of these energy packets. I ate (or rather gummed and swallowed)...
Organic Food No Healthier Than Conventional?
Everywhere you turn lately, it seems more and more foods are being labeled organic . It’s definitely been a huge craze, although sales have fallen since the recession. Sales may fall even further after people hear about a new study published Wednesday that states organic doesn’t mean healthier...
Foods With the Most Nutrition For the Price Per Portion
The majority of you haven’t felt the recession in terms of gaining weight - you’ve figured out that just because you might be feeling a financial pinch, you don’t have to resort to junk food that adds inches to your waistline. Because we’re all concerned about balancing our diet...
Fit Pregnancy: Eating For Two
Between the insane cravings and the nausea, the simple act of eating while pregnant can present many challenges. The concept of eating for two can be a bit dangerous, leading to weight gain that is difficult to lose while mothering 24/7. Since the old-school method of counting calories to track food...
Simple Steps for Eating More Veggies
Filed under: Food and Nutrition It’s almost impossible to go wrong when it comes to eating veggies. Rich in vitamins and antioxidants, super low in calories and fat, calorie-for-calorie, they’re just about as nutritious as it gets. They’re also bulky and filled with fiber, so they...
Healthy Fast Food - Good Choices Gone Bad
Filed under: Food and Nutrition , Diet and Weight Loss Fast food restaurants have long been criticized for their fatty, salty menu options — greasy burgers, salty fries and gigantic sodas. So they’ve started adding choices for the health conscious , like salads, baked potatoes and yogurt....
Are Raw Veggies Healthier Than Cooked?
Filed under: Food and Nutrition Steamed broccoli and roasted cauliflower are two of my favorite vegetable dishes; I could eat them every night of the week. But serve them up raw, and I won’t touch them. So goes the veggie lover’s dilemma: It’s a common belief that heat destroys powerful...
Nuts! Pistachios Becoming Problematic
Filed under: Food and Nutrition Peanut lovers are just barely bouncing back after a major salmonella scare . Now the news is breaking that the country’s second largest pistachio farm is recalling its entire 2008 crop — or a million pounds of nuts — due to concerns that the pistachios...
Acai - Like Red Wine and Chocolate?
Posted by admin in Food/Nutrition on 02 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
Filed under: Food and Nutrition Hurry, Quick. Get yourself some acai berries. I hear they taste just like a combination of red wine and chocolate ( Family Circle , February 2009 tells me so). They also happen to be chock full of disease-fighting antioxidants so apparently, you just can’t go wrong...
Diabetes
- Achieving Healthy Pregnancy Despite DiabetesAmong diabetic pregnant women, the most common problem when it comes to their baby’s health is the condition called “macrosomia” or having a baby with large body. This is because the blood of the mother with diabetes is interchanged with that of the baby inside the womb. As a result, the baby will produce insulin to be able to glucose and t […]
- Are You Suffering From Diabetes?People who are prone to diabetes—especially those who have the disease in their family’s history—should consider that there is a great possibility that they or their kids might inherit the illness. So, the best way to go about it is become very informed about the condition. The following are some the things that people who are prone to diabetes mus […]
- An Explanation of DiabetesIf you think that you are prone to diabetes, the first thing that you need to know is to understand what is the illness all about. Experts say that diabetes is a chronic disease, which develop among people who have the inability to utilize the glucose in their food to be used as energy. The illness develops when the accumulated glucose stays in the person […]