Eating For Health

Do food manufacturers have secrets they don’t want you to know?   My sister recommended an MSN article on a number of things food manufacturers want to keep secret as outlined in   the article 50 Secrets Food Manufacturers Don’t Tell You That Could Change the Way You Eat.   Some of the changes food manufacturers are making are good for our health.   More manufacturers are cutting back on the added sugar in foods.  Also, manufacturers are reducing the artificial flavors and artificial colors in foods.   For example, Kraft has removed the artificial color in their macaroni and cheese.   Even fast food chains are focusing on healthier options by getting rid of the antibiotics in chicken.    What are some things you should be aware of?      1.  Crackers – are you being fooled by crackers?   Are crackers healthy?   Most crackers are made from refined flour (white flour) and sugar and salt.   Add some preservatives and you have your typical cracker.   But there are healthier crack

Who doesn’t like some fresh fruit?   My husband brought home a watermelon this week.   It was summer sweet.   All kinds of fruit will soon be coming your way as summer approaches; strawberries ripened on the vine, cherries from Washington, blueberries from Michigan.   Not only is fruit delicious it is super healthy, low in fat and low in calories.   Consumer Reports has an excellent article on 100 calorie summer fruits (June 2018) and 100 calorie picnic foods .    If you are going on summer picnics or barbeques soon, read what a 100-calorie serving of barbeque foods look like.    Enjoy some 100-calorie fruit:   most fruit is so low in calories that you can eat a handful or more and enjoy a number of servings throughout the day.   Yes, fruit has “sugar” but this is the natural sugar, fructose.   It is the “added sugar” that we should be cutting back on, not the natural sugar in fruit.   Some people mistakenly believe fruit will make you fat.   Not true.   Fruit has no high fruct