Thursday, October 28, 2010

Healthy Fish To Eat

Do you want to get the health benefits of fish, but don't know which ones to choose?

Many different varieties of fish are contaminated with mercury or PCBs. How do you choose the fish that are the healthiest to eat and won't adversely affect your health?

The Smart Seafood Guide 2010 tells you which fish, both nationally and regionally (U.S.) are the healthiest choices. "Food & Water Watch analyzed over 100 different fish and shellfish to create the only guide assessing not only the human health and environmental impacts of eating certain seafood, but also the socio-economic impacts ..."

This is the best seafood guide I have seen. It makes seafood selection easy.

Learn more about healthy food here.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

3 Ways To Enjoy Your Burger Without The Bun

White bread and buns, even if made with enriched flour or wheat flour - but not whole wheat - have all the nutrients removed and a few synthetic chemical nutrients added to give you the false impression that they are healthy and nutritious. They're not. In fact they deplete the body of the B vitamins and other nutrients your body needs to be healthy.

Besides being unhealthy for you, processed grains contribute to obesity, diabetes and other health problems. In fact, we eat far too many grain products. It is not advisable to eat the large number of servings of grains as recommended by the FDA food pyramid, even the 2010 version, and especially not refined grains.

Truth be told, you don't need a bun to enjoy your burger. And yes, burgers can be healthy if they are made of beef from pastured, grass fed cows or turkey from free range, organic birds. So, it's best to make your own burgers at home from scratch.

Here are my 3 favorite ways to eat a burger:

1. Use a corn tortilla (made with corn, lime and water only) instead of a bun or bread. You could also use a sprouted grain tortilla as well.
2. Wrap your burger in 1 or 2 large leaves of lettuce.
3. Eat your burger as a serving of meat in a meal with a salad, steamed vegetables and brown rice or a starchy vegetable, like red potatoes, sweet potatoes or winter squash.

You can add healthy condiments to your burger, like lettuce, organic mustard, organic ketchup, onion, tomato, sprouts, cilantro, shredded carrots, etc.

So, enjoy your healthy burger!

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Healthy Halloween Tips

On Halloween, our little "trick or treaters" get so much candy, full of sugar and chemical additives. Sugar is known to cause hyperactivity in children and dental caries, as well as mood swings, depression, and obesity. But, it's not only the sugar that's so bad for them. It's also the other chemical additives, including artificial and natural flavors and FD&C colors, most of which are derived from coal tar which is a carcinogen. Here are five tips ...

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Celebrate Your Body!


Thursday, October 21, 2010

You Can Start a Body Image Revolution

Are you bored with ‘managing’ your weight, sick of ‘watching’ every thing you put in your mouth, or tired of being embarrassed when you look at your body in the mirror?

What if there was another way to be a woman?

A way that honored all of you, just the way you are, rather than just what you’re not? A way that recognized everything you DO do, rather than just what you don’t? A way that helped us decide who and how we WANT to be, rather than trying to fit us in the picture of perfect in a magazine or movie?

There is a way, it’s called The Body Image Revolution, and it starts today, Thursday October 21, I’m part of it and you can be too. I am teaming up with eleven other international body image experts in one big Telesummit to bring you the real facts about your weight and your health, Practical 'How-To' Tips to help you see your body and your life, just how it is right now, in a new light that is more real, more powerful, and more YOU.

Click here to visit The Body Image Revolution.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Tofu and Your Brain

There are two camps on the benefits of soy products - those who proclaim it has health promoting benefits and those who claim that it is harmful to your health.

In spite of those who vigorously promote soy as a healthy food with health-promoting benefits, there is a great deal of evidence indicating that soy is not the health food that the industry would like you to think it is. Kaayla Daniel, in her thoroughly researched book, the whole Soy Story, explains in great detail why soy is not a healthy food and should generally be avoided, except for use of some of the fermented soy products, like natto, tempeh and miso.

I have noticed that some who endorse Dr. Daniel's work also endorse the use of tofu, claiming that it is a fermented food product. While fermented tofu is produced by the Chinese and Japanese and eaten in those countries, it is generally not the tofu found in the U.S. In fact there is a study that "showed that men and women who ate tofu at least twice per week experienced accelerated brain aging, diminished cognitive ability and were more than twice as likely to be clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease."

For more information on the harmful effects of soy, check out these resources:

The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food

Facts About Soy, the Industry Doesn't Want You to Know: An interview with Dr. Kaayla Daniel author of The Whole Soy Story

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