Eating For Health

Hoping to lose a few pounds 2020 and have you made a New Year’s Resolution to do so?   Everywhere you look there are ads for taking off weight easily.   But we all know there is nothing so easy about it.   Yes, there are diets that one can lose a few pounds pretty quickly but what we really want is to lose the pounds and have them stay away.   To do so, skip the fad diets and try some real diets that have been shown to work.   If you do want to drop a few pounds or more, what are some healthy weight loss diets?   Too many diets promise the world but are not good for your health.   For example, one of the diets ranked the worst is the Whole30 diet.   This, like so many fad diets, don’t work to help you change your lifestyle but offer some quick solution that isn’t viable for the long term.   You may lose some weight but when you go “off” the fad diet, the weight piles back on.   Another poorly ranked diet is the Alkaline Diet.   So,...

Nutrition in the news talks about how exercising can help you eat a healthier diet and maybe you should enjoy that dessert and not skip it.   March is National Nutrition Month so learning more about nutrition and good health is a key focus this month.   Time has some interesting articles discussing food this month.          1.   Exercising Might Help You Make Healthier Food Choices – a recent study has found.   How does increasing your exercise help you eat better?    A study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that those who exercised on a regular basis ate healthier.   Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin studied 2,680 adults who were not exercising or on a diet.   After starting an exercise program, the study participants started to eat healthier.    They chose lean meats, ate more fruits and vegetables and cut back on fried foods.   They also cut back on the ...