Eating For Health

So many people are working from home because of the pandemic.   Many people worked one day a week or more from home but often not full-time.   After a few weeks working from home, the weight scale may not be your friend.   This morning on the radio I heard a salesman for exercise equipment saying he was busier than ever selling exercise bikes, weights, treadmills.   People have found that working from home with gyms closed, can result in added pounds when stepping on that scale. What are some tips to avoid those extra pounds when working from home?   A number of articles have been written on this topic and maybe one or more of these suggestions may work for you. Some hints from How to stop overeating while working from home during coronavirus outbreak , and How to Avoid Getting Fat When Working From Home as well as : Easy Solutions to Prevent Weight Gain While Working from Home .  1.        Stick with your...

Fast Food anyone?   Who doesn’t like an Egg McMuffin for breakfast or some grilled chicken at KFC?   Or, a good Subway sandwich and chips?   Can you enjoy Fast Food and still be healthy?   Registered Dietitian, Christy Brissette, has some easy rules to follow for Fast Food.   Her motto is the 80:20 rule.   At least 80% of the time, eat healthy.   Less than 20% of the time, “treat yourself” and enjoy some junk food.   Brissette wrote that a client asked her, “How often can I get away with eating junk food?”   She has given this advice to many of her clients and found that it worked well even with chronic dieters.   You have met these folks.   People who are always “on a diet” and then have one cookie or a Fast Food meal and they have “blown” their diet.   Learning to eat healthy and enjoying “treats” is a way to learn healthier eating habits and get off the on-again, off-again dieting spiral.   Brissette notes that onc...

A few years back I saw the CEO of PepsiCo being interviewed on CNBC.   She said her goal was to make snack foods healthier.   Yeah, right.    Not too long after I noticed Sun Chips.    A whole grain chip made with a heart healthy oil.   Back then Frito Lay also began producing Doritos and Fritos that were whole grain.   But for some reason they no longer are.   But she continued to produce Frito-Lay chips with heart healthier oils.   So now what is Indra Nooyi the CEO of PepsiCo up to?   She now wants to cut down on the sugar in the sodas Pepsi produces so that Americans who are soda drinkers will get   less sugar in their diets.   Time magazine said she is putting “PepsiCo on an innovation diet”.    Pepsi   True – a new lower sugar Soda, coming to stores in October.   Good bye high fructose corn syrup and hello sugar (sucrose).   But less sugar as Stevia will also be added.    An...