fats
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Your Body is Telling You More than You Think With these Signs
Our bodies are brilliant computers. If we listen to it closely, it will tell us what we need to keep it healthy. However, in our fast-paced society, we often miss obvious signals. In fact, there are many of us who notice every nuance of their car and then take care of their car better than
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Foods You Love with Better and Best Healthy Alternatives
It’s summer time and that often means lots of go-to summer food! During this time of year, we all seem to socialize even more eating our favorite comfort foods. However, most of us are becoming more and more aware of the questionable ingredients in our fave foods. So, do we have to say goodbye or
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Avoid Using These Oils in Your Holiday Baking
During this holiday season, many of us are up to our eyeballs baking lots of goodies. Many recipes tell us to use different kinds of Vegetable Oils. AVOID them all. Vegetable oils are not exactly made from vegetables! The problem is that these highly processed polyunsaturated fats are highly unstable and oxidize easily in the body. These oxidized fats cause inflammation
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The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight
Can’t we just eat less calories and lose weight? How about eating less fat–doesn’t fat make us fat? What about eating low carb or high protein? We need to look back to see how we gain weight in the first place to get our answer. The obvious is the foods we eat and the quantity.
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Does Fat Really Make You Fat?
No fat. Low fat. We’ve all been conditioned to think that these words lead to good health. The truth is that we NEED fat. Yes, the saturated fats such as meat, dairy products, some oils (olive and coconut) and tropical plants (coconuts and avocados). In fact, when you eat fats as part of your meal,
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Get the Facts- Label Nutrition Facts
That little white box labeled Nutrition Facts gives us important information that tells us about the food we buy. OK, but what does it all mean and what should we really be looking for? Serving Size- This indicates an assumed serving for a person on a 2,000-calorie daily diet. Beware of the amount you would
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The Real Skinny on Paula Deen
When Paula Deen revealed recently that she has been living with Type 2 diabetes for the past 3 years, most people were not exactly shocked. Mrs. Deen certainly isn’t the role model for healthy cooking. However, she is a great role model in what NOT to eat. It may not be what you think, though,