Category Archives: Healthy Eating
Getting To The Bottom Of Why Kids Love ‘Junkfood’
Going shopping with your preschooler can end up into a huge scene. No matter how hard you try to avoid those aisles with all the junk food you know your kids love, they always seem to know where to go. You may have asked yourself just what attracts kids to these kinds of food? New … Continue reading
Talk To Your Kids About Their Weight-But How?
As childhood obesity rises – the condition now affects 17 percent of all children and adolescents in the United States, triple the rate a generation ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control – so too does the need to guide children about healthy eating. This percentage isn’t something that should be taken lightly especially … Continue reading
How To Pack Healthy Snacks For Your Kids
Eating healthy food shouldn’t be confined to when you are at home. Parents in particular should make sure that their kids get the right diet and have complete healthy meals. The problem comes when they start going to school. More often than not, kids view snack time as their chance to eat all those junk … Continue reading
McDo Puts Kids On A Happy Diet
Starting in September, the new Happy Meals will automatically include apple slices and a smaller portion of French fries. Customers will also be able to choose 1 percent milk or fat-free chocolate milk, which will be part of the choices that also include water, juice and soda. These changes are part of the chain’s effort … Continue reading
Happy National Junk Food Day
July 21 has been declared a National Junk Food Day. Does this mean that we are to honor junk food on this day? Go to the supermarket and buy a years supply of our favorite junk foods and stuff ourselves? Actually, the point is reminding ourselves of how junk food has affected us especially the … Continue reading
Should You Eat Snacks Between Meals?
When we hear the word ‘snack’ most of us think of all those jun foods that are obviously not helpful at all. Is this true though? Should you insist on eating only proper meals and skip eating snacks in between? For mums, giving kids snacks in between meals may result in their loosing appetite and … Continue reading
It’s NO Cola In Turkey’s School Canteens This Year
In an effort to encourage students to have a balanced diet and to prevent obesity, Turkey’s Health Ministry and the Ministry of Education have launched a program for the 2011-2012 term.According to an agreement between the ministries, primary and high school canteens will not be able to sell fast food, colas, industrial fruit juice, energy … Continue reading
Healthy snacks for your kids
Snacking not only staves off hunger until the next meal, but it provides much-needed energy for kids. The only problem is that most snacks for kids aren’t very healthy. So what’s a parent to do? Micki Sannar, a world-renowned chef and author of the cookbook Olive oil deserts says that when his kids wanted a … Continue reading
Better Memory-an incentive for Loosing Weight
How much you weigh and how well you remember may be connected. At Kent State University in Ohio, John Gunstad saw it in data on people who underwent bariatric surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs. This scientific finding may be exactly what obese people need to drive them to loose weight. The connection … Continue reading
Teaching Teens about Healthy Eating
Eating well is often hard for teens. Hanging out with friends, frequenting fast-food joints and snacking on greasy chips can lead to too much fat, sugar and calories and not enough vitamins and minerals. “When kids turn into teens, they are at a point where they are exploring and experimenting with lots of different things, … Continue reading
Healthy diet-Taming your appetite
As summer approaches, advertising for diet pills and other weight-loss aids increases. Unfortunately there are no quick fixes to trimming down, just healthy eating and exercise.The good news is that nature has provided us with a few secret weapons to fend off the munchies, overeating and snacking. One of the simple ways to try and … Continue reading
Healthy eating foods for Athritis Patients
Arthritis is a mildew routine many mostly compared with incapacity as good as affects in between 50 as good as 70 million Americans (depending upon a estimates used). There have been some-more than 100 opposite kinds of arthritis as good as any is treated with colour differently. While in outcome healing remedies have been accessible … Continue reading
Healthy eating with Greek Yogurt
Greek yogurt is perhaps one of the best foods to use for losing weight and eating healthy. Not only does it provide great nutrition and beneficial probiotics, but it’s also a very versatile ingredient. There are some great ways to begin eating more Greek yogurt everyday that you may have never considered.When many people think of … Continue reading
Healthy Eating-reducing Cholesterol levels
CHOLESTEROL is a type of fat that is a normal component of most body tissues, and is required for good health. Yet, high levels can increase the risk of developing diseases (eg heart disease).High cholesterol levels are asymptomatic, and in many cases, the first sign of any problem is a serious health issue. To help … Continue reading
Healthy eating with Vitamin B5
Just what is Vitamin B5 anyway? Vitamin B5, also known as pantothenic acid, is crucial as a stress-fighting B-complex vitamin. Vitamin B5 is necessary for optimum functioning of adrenal glands and for maintaining healthy skin, nails, and nerves…is crucial for metabolism of fats and carbohydrates, and it plays a role in the secretion of important … Continue reading