Eating For Health

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 believ...

Last week we discussed five diet pitfalls you may be making.     Here are four more diet pitfalls to be aware of.   These are from   9 Things You Should Never Do When Starting a Diet .    If you are trying to take off a few pounds, be aware of some diet mistakes you might be making.   As I noted last week, so many people start a diet, then go “off” the diet.   Rather the focus should be on changing your eating habits and your exercise habits. It is a lifestyle change to a healthier you.     Change your habits and you can be a healthier you.     Diet Tips – Don’t make these mistakes (continued): Mistake #6 – Don’t Keep your Diet Goals a Secret Hiding your “diet” from everyone may actually make it harder to stick to it.   Go out to eat and your friends will keep asking you to “have another bite” or let’s try a dessert.   Get a “diet buddy” or an “exercise buddy” to help you stick to your action plan. ...