Category Archives: Healthy Living
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
Men:Want to Look and Feel Great? Read This!
Let’s face it-men love eating their steaks and barbecues. Food can be said to be the language that all men speak. The bad thing is these favorites are among the the list of food that are labeled as ‘unhealthy’. In as much as men love to eat, they surely are as vain as women. No … 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
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
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 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
Healthy Eating tips from Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou lost 50 pounds and she accredits the loss to eating healthy. Fusing food and words to helping make it happen, the esteemed writer opened up her house to share her delight of food with others. On Thursday morning the popular poet shared dishes from her latest book and surprisingly her focus of literary … Continue reading
Family meals to Fight Obesity
Families that find time to eat even one meal together have been found to be a lot healthier. Children in particular were found to be less likely to become overweight. A lot of it is psychological according to the experts. Sitting and eating together as a family increases the child’s’ self esteem which can help … Continue reading
Got Sugar Phobia? 3 Things You Should Know
It is generally thought that to keep a healthy diet, you should get rid of sugar. Anything with sugar is viewed as a big no no and hindrance to loosing weight. This notion is spread especially online where you can find tons of articles discouraging you from eating sugar. There has even been a lot … Continue reading
Think Cheese is bad for your diet?Think again!
That’s the position of Arne Astrup, a professor at the University of Copenhagen. He argues that observational studies demonstrate that dairy products reduce blood pressure and do not have the negative effects on blood lipids that one might expect. Moreover, he says, calcium appears to have an effect both on appetite suppression and on the … Continue reading