When I think back to my high school days, I remember a pretty clear picture of what I thought healthy eating looked like. In my mind, healthy meals included giant salads, roasted vegetables, green juices, and smoothies. Although all of these foods are technically healthy, I was missing the bigger picture. A healthy diet does not have to …
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Tale of Two Meals
Bacon is traditionally associated with breakfast, when it’s usually served alongside an egg or two, or as one of the hallmark ingredients of a BLT. But you can find bacon on burgers, in appetizers, on salads, and even covered in chocolate or added to ice cream.
Good Food Gone Bad
Each year, contaminated food products are estimated to cause 48 million consumer sicknesses in the U.S. alone. Use the following guide to help protect yourself from food-borne contaminants.
Decoding Nutrition
Nutrition is the selection of foods and preparation of foods, and their ingestion to be assimilated by the body. By practicing a healthy diet, many of the known health issues can be avoided.
5 Healthy Spices
When you think about adding spices to your food, I bet most people would say that you add them for flavor. But did you know that spices and herb are often nutritional powerhouses providing antioxidant benefits, reduced risks of cancer, immune system protection and more? If you are like me when cooking, you grab one …
Guide to Gluten
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, triticale and oats. In some people, eating or drinking anything containing gluten can cause different types of undesirable reactions. The most extreme of these is the auto-immune condition known as celiac disease. Some other types of reactions are known as non-celiac gluten sensitivity, gluten sensitivity, or …
Fill up on Fats
A healthy balanced diet should include the healthier monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. However, it’s not always easy to know where to find them or how to use them in meals. Below is a guide to using healthier fats in your meals and snacks. Monounsaturated fat is found in foods such as avocados, almonds, cashews, peanuts …
Health Food or Not?
These tricksie hobbits pretend to be healthy, by theys isn’tses! THEY ISN’TSES!
Size Matters
A list of healthy portions relevant to things of similar size. Just don’t eat a smartphone.
Pre-workout Supplements
A guide to pre-workout supplements and amino acids.