Articles tagged with food
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How To Practice Balance And Moderation In Your Diet
More than 50 percent of the exercise required to stay fit and firm as you age, involves a fork and knife. No amount of exercise can compensate for poor dietary habits. I believe in finding a healthy eating plan that works for you, that you can live with for the long-term. One [...]
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Weight Loss Tips for Travelling
Eating for weight loss, whilst travelling, is not as difficult as people make it out to be. Don’t use travel as an excuse to eat junk food, and reverse all the hard work you’ve been putting in. More than likely it’s not your fault that you’ve struggled to eat healthy while on the road. Most people just [...]
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10 Best Sources of Omega-3
Your kids might need more Omega 3 if they suffer from dry skin, depression, or fatigue. Including it in their diet may help reduce stress, lower hostility rate in young adults, reduce levels of aggression, (a definite plus if you have a toddler) lower cholesterol, reduce inflammation, may protect against macular degeneration (which my father-in-law [...]
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How You Can Form Good Eating Habits (despite the bad eating habits that still linger)
Do you make a habit of eating badly? Yes, you heard right – you making eating badly, a habit. Bad eating habits, as you well know, are hard to break. 'Once a habit, always a habit' is too harsh.
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What You Need To Know About Iron
Do your kids get tired? Are they unable to concentrate or having frequent headaches? They could be needing more iron-rich foods. Letter-I week continues with how to get more Iron in children’s diet. Children ages 4-8 years old need 10mg of iron per day. Some of our favourite iron sources include: Spinach -with 6.4 mg per 1 cup Lentils -have [...]
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Do Restaurants That List Calories in Food Help People Eat Less Calories?
Do you think your ability to control your weight comes from the outside in? If you think so, then you probably applauded the idea of restaurants that list calories in food. Well, you may need to think again. A study of restaurant receipts showed that people bought food with slightly more calories than they did before [...]
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What is Almond Milk?
Milk has been at the forefront of some heated debates over the past several years, between health and fitness experts. On one side of the spectrum you have Team Milk, which insists that drinking milk is the best way to consume calcium, build your bones and build stronger teeth. Whereas Team Soy milk scolds all the dairy milk [...]
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Benefits of a Calorie Controlled Diet
Calorie is a measurement of energy. In other words, ‘unit of energy’. When we eat food, the amount of energy contained in them will be used by our body to conduct various body functions. This energy is called ‘food energy’ and can be measured in calories. Our body needs energy to function properly. The source [...]
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Top 5 Rules For Eating Out
If you follow my top 5 rules when eating out, you can enjoy your meals without eating 1500 calories! Many of you eat out almost every day, so you can apply these rules. Here are the 5 rules: Rule #1 - IF IT’S FRIED, LET IT SLIDE (TRY BAKED OR BROILED). Rule #2 - Don’t go to [...]
