Tag: healthy choices
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A Smorgasbord of Substitutions Who doesn’t like a cupcake? But this is no ordinary dessert — it’s meatloaf with mashed potatoes for icing. This is a bit of a prank, but substitution is one of the most powerful ways to make a shift from not-so-healthy choices to healthy ones. Check out Greatist’s List of 89…
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Learning to Say “When!” Most of us know roughly which foods we should be eating more of, and which we should be eating less of, but that second category is just so darn tasty. Quitting cold turkey works for many people, but it can be impractical, especially if you’re not easily able to prepare almost…
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Eating and Exercise Dr Yoni Freedhoff is a bariatric physician in Canada — he specializes in weight loss (in his case, without surgery, although he is not opposed to surgery for people who can benefit from it). Dr Freedhoff’s position is that weight control is about food, and exercise is about health. Of course, it’s…
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Read the Label Food processing companies are incredibly sophisticated, and their mastery of manipulation of food is only a part of it. Where food companies really excel is in how they write their labels. It can be as simple as the rather silly claim on a candy package that the contents are “a fat-free food!”…
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Sheldon asks a classic question — and illustrates the many ways we rationalize things when we think we shouldn’t be doing them. Note that once a bunch of work gets done to rationalize the cookie, the second cookie just happens. Worst-case scenario: you binge. So how do we get around this? Build treats into your…
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Good Carbs, Bad Carbs Carbohydrates are the sugars and starches that make up part of our food. The digestible carbs are the quickest forms of energy for your body to use. (Dietary fiber is also a carb, but it helps to clear out your gastrointestinal tract rather than contributing energy.) Carbohydrates are sometimes divided into…
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Keeping Score Few of us can just eat whatever we want without consequences, and there are lots of ways out there to keep track. The gold standard is counting calories, and it’s a great way to be very aware of what you eat, but if you’re just starting out, it’s easy to get bogged down…
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One of the simplest ways to eat more nutritiously is simply to use less packaged food. Packaged foods contain ingredients that keep them “shelf stable,” manipulate their color and texture, and other goals that are interesting from a chemistry perspective but don’t contribute anything to our nutrition. Many packaged foods have their basic ingredients manipulated,…
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Healthy living is about making choices. Sometimes those choices will be from the Burger King value menu – and that’s OK. You can still make most of your choices in a way that keeps you on track for good nutrition (and regular exercise). Many diet programs offer “cheat” options – suggesting you eat carefully 6…