News on Healthy Eating

Infant Parenting

2010-03-16T05:14:11Z

Infants are little explorers who are curious about their environment and constantly travel on all their fours to learn and experience what the world has to offer them. Being parents our concern for our little angel is quite evident, we build a protective fence around them to guard them against any injury or danger, but we often don?t realize that we might be hindering their learning abilities by doting over them. It is essential to keep a watch on them and always be at an arms length to prote...

Childhood Obesity: Ways of Prevention

2010-03-16T05:10:12Z

One of the main health issues with children are obesity and almost 15 percent of children all over the world are suffering from this disease. There are many reasons for child obesity and some of these reasons include, change in eating habits. This means that these days child are getting less of nutritional food and more of fatty foods. They tend to be away from fresh food, vegetables and whole grains and are attracted more towards foods that are high in fats and additive sugars. One of the ot...

An Insight Into Nutritional Foods For Your Body

2010-03-16T05:04:44Z

If you want to live healthy life then the first thing you have to pay attention towards is your healthy and nutritious diet. Let us look at eight of the nutritional food you should have daily.  Spinach: This food is famous as ultimate food with so many nutritional value attached to it. This is a leafy source rich in plant contents like omega 3s, which helps in reducing the heart disease risk and osteoporosis. More than this, folate is also helpful in increased b...

Gourmet Leftovers

2010-03-15T21:15:15Z

<div>Turn: Roasted Chicken and TabouliNote: Tabouli is a Meditterean dish made with chopped parsley, bulgur grain, mint, tomato, and onion. Check your grocery store for one of the dozens of boxed options available.Into: Chicken Tabouli SaladHow to do it: Mix a couple servings of prepared tabouli salad with 3/4 cup cubed cooked chicken and a bit of sauce or salad dressing of your choice. Toss lightly and ad...

Can You Eat Healthy at a Fast Food Restaurant?

2010-03-16T02:18:45Z

You have changed your eating habits to align with your decision to live a healthy lifestyle but you find yourself with only fast food restaurants for lunch. Due to hypertension your doctor has put you on a low sodium diet but your kids keep nagging you to take them to McDonalds. After a thorough diet evaluation you have chosen a low fat diet plan to lose those extra pounds but your friends love to eat at Subway. Do an...

Healthy Eating Tips For Work at Homers and Telecommuters

2010-03-15T22:23:49Z

It can be hard to eat healthy foods when there is a McDonald?s or an Arby?s on every street corner. It can be even more difficult for those who work from home. Telecommuters have flexible hours, unpredictable work schedules, and do not always have the time to make the best food. So it is understandable why so many work-at-homers are interested in fast, easy ways to make delicious, nutritious, and healthy foods. There are a few different strategies that the work at homer and the telecommuter c...

Avoid These Foods For A Healthy Heart

2010-03-14T15:05:06Z

Farmed Salmon: I am sure you have heard about Omega-3 fatty acids and how we get too few in our diet. Omega-3's are essential for heart health and for emotional and mental well-being. You may not be aware, however, that farmed salmon contains a lot fewer Omega-3 fatty acids compared to wild salmon. In addition, farmed salmon is much more likely to contain PCB's and dioxins if care is not taken at the facility where the salmon is raised. Instant O...

Use the Pyramid to Get Healthy

2010-03-13T14:33:31Z

You keep reading and hearing about eating healthier and getting regular exercise to improve your health but you don?t know where to go to get started. Instead of buying the latest diet book or investing in exercise equipment or a health club membership why don?t you consider a free alternative? Free is good. So where do you go for this free information and tools to get you started? The Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Street food and fast food fall under the category of junk food. Apart from adding empty calor...

Want to Lose Weight? Eat More

2010-03-12T01:56:03Z

In order to effectively lose fat and keep it off you must create a lifestyle change for your nutrition and not jump from diet to diet. There are many "diets" out there that will grab your attention and allow you to lose weight and fat very rapidly but how long can you maintain such a restricted state? I have seen too many people go through the yo-yo dieting and by the time they get to the correct answer for effectively losing fat (which is a healthy and balanced diet), they...

Staying Healthy at Child Daycare Centers

2010-03-11T11:35:37Z

When your child attends child daycare centers during cold and flu season, there are some basic things that you can do to prevent the spread of germs. Your child care centers will enforce basic hand washing, and you can do your part at home, as well. With techniques that include a healthy diet and proper hand washing, your child will be happy and healthy at day care year round. Health at Your Child Daycare Centers Good health begins at h...

Eating Healthy For Living Healthy

2010-03-10T09:20:41Z

?The health of people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their power as a state depend." Benjamin Disraeli (England Jewish Prime Minister, 1804-1881) Nutrition is essential for a healthy sustenance of human life. Eating healthy encompasses foods that provide nutrients to maintain a robust lifestyle. These nutrien...

Tax soda, pizza to cut obesity, researchers say

2010-03-09T09:30:21Z

<div>CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults' calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.The researchers, writing in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday, suggested taxing could be used as a weapon in the fight against obesity, w...

15 Comfort Food Fixes

2010-02-27T21:15:14Z

<div>Some men love to cook. Some don't. But no matter where you fall on that spectrum, you have to eat. And while takeout and ordering in are always options, there are times when all you want to do is throw something together. You know—one or two of those super-quick, super-easy meals you've been living on for years. The thing you cook when nothing else will hit the spot.The only catch? Many of the most basic recipes in a guy's cooking repertoire - classic comfo...

Oprah helps chef fulfill Michelle Obama wish

2010-02-27T20:45:09Z

<div>When Oprah Winfrey recently asked her former personal chef what he wanted for his 50th birthday, Art Smith's first thought was a new treadmill.Aim higher, she told him.How about a check to help fund the sort of healthy eating programs for children called for by another of his high profile clients, first lady University of Buffalo in New York, led by psychologist

Occasional binges may undo alcohol's heart benefits

2010-02-22T08:41:02Z

<div>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While research has linked moderate drinking to better heart health, a new study suggests that those benefits disappear when drinkers add the occasional binge to the mix.Pooling data from 14 previous studies of moderate drinkers, researchers found that those who drank heavily every so often were 45 percent more likely to develop coron...

Hit the Weight-Loss Bull's-Eye

2010-02-22T09:30:04Z

<div>Is your quest to shed those extra pounds on target or way off the mark? We asked MF weight-loss adviser Christopher Mohr, Ph.D.,R.D., to weigh in on what works and what doesn't.On TargetDrink More Water It'll flush away sodium, which bloats you. You'll also be less likely to down high-calorie beverages. People often underestimate how import...

Farm to School program changes kids' views on food

2010-02-22T10:51:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Farm to School program plants seeds of healthy eating in kids</div><div>The third and fourth graders at Sharon Elementary know where the veggies in their soup come from because they've visited the farms. They know the nutritional value of the carrots, onions and cabbage because they've studied them in class, and they know how they're grown because they've nurtured them in raised beds out back.<...