Eating For Health

Who doesn’t like some fresh fruit?   This week my husband stopped at the farmer’s market and brought home fresh raspberries, fresh yellow plums, peaches, and fresh corn in the husk.   He also brought home a fresh watermelon. The fruit and especially the watermelon were summer sweet.   Our neighbor just rang our doorbell and gave us some home-grown tomatoes.   All kinds of fruit will be coming your way during the summer months:   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.   A few years back, Consumer Reports had an excellent article on 100 calorie summer fruits (June 2018) and 100 calorie picnic foods .    If you are going on summer picnics or barbeques this summer, read what a 100-calorie serving of barbeque foods look like.   Enjoy some 100-calorie fruit :   What about the “sugar” in fruit? Most fr...

We have all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.   And that’s true.   You are literally “Breaking The Fast” as your body has been without food for as much as 12 hours.   It is important to refuel for the day.   But what you choose to refuel with is important.   My sister recommended the article, 37 Worst Breakfast Habits for Your Waistline by Eat This, Not That!.     We won’t discuss all 37 habits and we will add some good habits to include in your day. Yogurt, oatmeal and berries Bad Breakfast Habits for Your Waistline:  Coffee with Cream – who doesn’t like a morning cup of coffee?   I always start my day with coffee. But adding cream or the fake cream adds calories, fat but few nutrients to your day.   And adding the flavored creamers with lots of added sugar is a double no as that adds even more calories but few nutrients.   But you don’t have to skip the “cream in your coffee”.  ...