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Recipe makeover: make family favorites healthier
Many favorite comfort foods are chock-full of fat and calories. But a few simple tweaks can transform familiar favorites into delicious and nutritious meals your family will ask for time and time again. The nutrition experts at Mayo Clinic share their top five tips for healthy recipe makeovers that cut the calories, boost the nutrition, and keep the taste.
Nutrients, fats, sugars and more: it's all on the food label
To determine the freshness of a fruit or vegetable, a person might squeeze, smell or even sneak a taste at the grocery store. However, when it comes to packaged foods, many people find it difficult to evaluate the quality and nutritional value of food items sold in cans, plastic containers and paper boxes. To ensure that you're a savvier shopper when selecting products that fit your personal nutrition goals, follow these tips.
Sweet Dreams: No Sugar Added
There is research out there pointing to the negative impact sugar has on our bodies, especially in large quantities. Refined sugar is something that we know our kids do not need to survive, and there are many other healthy alternatives for pleasurable treats. But rather than controlling what your kids eat, you can take steps to manage it healthfully. So, how do you decrease sugar in your child's diet? Here are some tips.
Smarter Meal Choices for On-the-go Families
Between the hustle and bustle of routines and non-stop schedules that run until bedtime, it can be difficult to find the time for everyone in the family to eat together, let alone eat healthy options. Healthier options other than quick-grab candy bars, fast food or other packaged items would be a welcome change. However, finding these options for an on-the-go lifestyle has always been a challenging task—until now.
On your mark, get set, start healthy snacking
It used to be that we thought that snacking was not good for us. We were told it would ruin our appetite for our meals and make us gain weight. But the tables have turned and the aisles are now full of nutritious and delicious snacks that we can enjoy between meals. Instead of feeling guilty about snacking, we can now feel good about it as dietitians are encouraging us to eat three small meals a day, but to also eat healthy snacks as well. So now you can plan to snack every day. Carol Dombrow, registered dietitian with the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Health Check program offers these tips to make healthy snacking easy at home, at school, at work and anywhere on the go.
Canadians see link between nutrition and improving fitness
Dietitians of Canada, in January 2009, released the results of a new Ipsos Reid poll revealing that one half of Canadians admit their eating habits need a lot of improvement, but many are starting to get the message that optimum nutrition can improve their fitness.
'Veg-ucate' Kids About Good Eating Habits this Spring
Ask any parents what foods kids want and what foods kids need, and they'll tell you the two rarely meet. In most cases, hot dogs trump tomatoes and animal crackers buck broccoli, causing many parents to wonder what they can do. But with spring blooming, green thumbs coming out of hibernation and gardens glowing in a few weeks, now is the perfect time to "veg-ucate" kids to like, and even want, veggies.
Smarter Snack Ideas When the Munchies Strike
The desire for healthy snacks (or at least less unhealthy snacks) is not a new one. What is new, however, is the emerging mindset that packing more for the punch, or doing more with less, can allow people to have their snacks and eat them, too. With a few lifestyle adjustments, the 3 p.m. snack—or the mid-morning or late night snack, for that matter—can continue.
Do 'social marketing' campaigns succeed in encouraging workers to skip the burgers and fries and make more nutritious lunchtime choices?
Can a veggie plate win out over a burger as the lunch of choice for an over-stressed cubicle jockey? Can a green salad successfully compete with a plate of fries in the company cafeteria? It depends on what food choices are offered and how they are presented.
Eating healthy in restaurants can be done
Making wise food choices at home can be done by planning in advance and stocking up on nutritious ingredients, but eating out poses a bigger challenge. The healthy choices are sometimes few and far between, and even when they are available, without seeing the nutrition information, it can be difficult to identify them. There are some simple rules you can use to help you make wise choices away from home.
