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Would you like to eat healthier, but don’t know where to start?

Are you overwhelmed by all the nutrition and diet information out there?

If you answered yes to these questions, then our new eBook, The P.O.W.E.R. of Healthy Eating, is a must read. It’s perfect for anyone who wants to improve their health – and the health of their family.

Each day, you make hundreds of choices about what to eat, when to eat and how much to eat. The key to great health is really understanding your options and making the right choices. Eating healthy does not have… Read the rest

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We often discuss the importance of reading food labels in this blog. Healthy eating really starts with knowing what it is you’re putting in your mouth. Women’s Health Magazine sites a new study from Johns Hopkins University that provides an interesting take on labels.

They are proposing that junk food packages also include the amount of exercise it will take to burn off the number of calories in one serving of the food. They believe that the ingredients and nutrition facts should still be there too, but they found that providing the amount of exercise was a big… Read the rest

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Portion control can be one of the biggest challenges to healthy eating. Whether at home or a restaurant, we tend to eat more than we should. Sometimes this is called “portion distortion,” and it’s gotten much worse in recent years. What we think of as a “standard portion” today is significantly more than it was 20 or 30 years ago.

In fact, eating too much, rather than eating unhealthy or “fattening” foods, is the biggest contributor to weight gain. Too much of even a good thing is no good for you!

We tend to “supersize” everything today, including our meals.… Read the rest

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The USDA wants to limit the amount of potato products included in school lunches. Limiting starchy foods, like potatoes, is just one effort to limit total calories for schoolchildren, but as expected, it is controversial.

Senators from potato-producing states like Maine, Idaho and Colorado say the proposal is well-intentioned, but wrong, and they are mounting an effort to block the new rules. They believe that potatoes are very affordable, nutrition vegetables.

While potatoes are inexpensive, they are much less nutritious than other vegetables and that’s the problem. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that potatoes are the number one vegetable… Read the rest

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Instead of going out to eat, how about cooking all your family’s favorite fast food meals right at home? Did you know that you can make fast food meals that are healthier that the originals? And you can make most of them in less time that it takes to pile everyone in the car and go to the restaurant.  Here’s how:

Taco Bell: Most markets carry seasoning packets and sauce mixes that you can add to your ground beef as you cook it. The tacos, burritos and Enchiritos you make will taste just like the ones from the restaurant.

McDonalds: Many… Read the rest

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