Diet & Nutrition: Choose salad for a summertime lunch

Here are a couple of quick salad recipes, perfect for summertime lunches. The first recipe serves four. The second is broken down into 3- and 4-block meals.  These meals come from the ZoneDiet Website.  Go there for many more healthy and delicious ZONE recipes. Tuna and White Bean Salad with Arugula, Capers and Feta with [...]

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Diet tips: Cod Liver Oil, Good For What Ails You

This is an exert from an article on Cod Liver Oil found at www.westonaprice.org.  I recommend reading the entire article here. Cod liver oil greatly improves heart function to prevent heart disease and to treat it even in advanced stages, after a heart attack and after heart surgery. Cod liver oil alters the linings of [...]

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Diet Tips: America’s Worst Drinks

20. Worst Water Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water (1 bottle, 20 fl oz) 150 calories 0 g fat 33 g sugars Sugar Equivalent: 2 Good Humor Chocolate Éclair Bars While “Worst Water” may sound like an oxymoron, the devious minds in the bottled beverage industry have even found a way to besmirch the sterling reputation [...]

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Diet Tips: Weston Price Foundation on the Myths & Truths about Cholesterol

Click on any picture to see read the sheet. This is great information!

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Diet tips: Sugar, how many ways to say it?

Here are 45 Ways to say Sugar (in alphabetical order):  barley malt, beet sugar, brown rice sugar, brown sugar, cane juice, confectioners sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, date sugar, dextrin, dextrose, fructooligosaccharides, evaporated cane juice, fruit juice concentrate, galactose, glucose, fructose, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, lactose, malted barley, maltitol, maltodextrin, [...]

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Women’s Hearts & High Glycemic Carbs

Thus, a high consumption of carbohydrates from high-glycemic index foods, rather than the overall quantity of carbohydrates consumed, appears to influence developing coronary heart disease,” wrote the researchers.

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Diet Tips: Paleo Eating

The Paleolithic Diet a.k.a. Neanderthin is the diet that we humans are genetically adapted to eat. The paleolithic age is the same as the Stone Age – so this is a stone age diet or life style. This has been humanity’s preferred diet for something like 2.5 million years, and humans have only genetically changed [...]

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Portion Control

 “Portion Distortion”  Take a walk through downtown America and the spread of obesity in our communities is painfully obvious.   The consequences? Over 9% of the national health expenditures are due to excessive weight and the cost of obesity to the American business community has been estimated at almost $13 billion annually.  More important than the [...]

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Happy Friday! 4-2-2010

Hello all.  Another week comes to an end. To date our top loser and top female loser (as a percentage of her starting body weight) is: …..(drum roll)…..Mary Pasek, with a loss to date of 14.4% of her starting body weight. To date our top male loser (as a percentage of his starting body weight) is: Luis [...]

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Success Tips: Break the Deprivation/Binge Cycle

One of the major causes of failure when it comes to dieting is the feeling of deprivation.  Feeling deprived can really wear you down and out.  When a “diet”” feels like food deprivation you are in a constant battle with what you want to eat but ”can’t” have.   No matter how committed, no matter how determined, no [...]

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