Category: Healthy Diet
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Healthy Diet for December 31 – Time to Reflect, Look Ahead, Celebrate
When the clock strikes midnight, how will you ring in the New Year? Will you reflect back on how you achieved your fitness goals over the past twelve months? Will you rethink and update next year’s approach to healthful eating and active living? The smart approach: Do both. Review what you’ve learned this past year…
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Healthy Diet for December 30 – Wrap-up tab
Over this past year, you’ve explored the positives: what you can eat, not what you can’t, for health. You’ve “tasted” what’s known so far about the wide variety of health-promoting foods. And you’ve learned how many of those foods may protect you from heart disease and cancer. With these benefits in mind: • Add one…
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Healthy Diet for December 29 – Boost Your “Burn”
You know the basics: a pound of body fat equals 3,500 calories. To trim down, eat fewer calories, burn more, or do both. You get out of it what you put into it. So, the more often you’re physically active, the longer you do it, and the harder you move, the more calories you burn.…
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Healthy Diet for December 28 – Weight Loss? Think Again
Gained weight this season? Before you’re lured by January promotions that advertise “fat-melting,” “appetite-suppressing,” “metabolism-boosting” weight-loss aids, get your guard up! Even if they foster short-term results, they’re likely ineffective in the long run. First, two gimmicks: Electric muscle stimulators don’t really work your muscles, so you don’t burn calories. Rubber belts and nylon clothes…
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Healthy Diet for December 27 – It’s Date Night
Dates add a flavorful complement to romantic dinners for two. Enjoy this peak season for this nutritious and sweetest of fruits. Seventy-percent sugar by weight, dates have a candy-like sweetness. Unlike other fruits, dates have essentially no vitamin C. Yet even five or six dates deliver fiber and potassium, and no fat. Sweeten your cooking…
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Healthy Diet for December 26 – Eating with – African American Flavor
Keep the holiday spirit. Today starts Kwaanza, a weeklong African American commemoration of renewal, patterned after the African harvest celebration. Its name comes from the Kiswahili word ku-anza, meaning “to begin.” Symbols of Kwaanza have universal meaning. This first day honors umoja, or unity, among family as well as the community, the nation, and the…
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Healthy Diet for December 25 – Healthy Holiday
No matter how—or why—you may celebrate, it’s Christmas Day. As you enjoy family and friends, make healthful choices together that match your individual lifestyles. For the best gift of the season—good health. Be realistic. Stick with your small steps to eat smart and move more. Enjoy vegetables served at dinner. Serve yourself a reasonable portion…
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Healthy Diet for December 24 – ‘Twas the Night Before . . .
According to tradition, Saint Nicholas was the first to fill stockings— with gold coins to ensure happy marriages for three noble sisters who lost their mother. Today food and trinkets turn empty stockings into festive gift bags. Rather than the usual candy canes, chocolates, and small toys, why not stuff children’s socks with health-focused goodies?…
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Healthy Diet for December 23 – Better Angle
Positioned comfortably by the TV this wintry evening? Americans, on average, watch nearly four hours of television daily—potentially a lot of sitting time. Yet we all know, fitting more movement into leisure time offers more long-term health benefits. Get more from your TV time today. Take a commercial action break! You’ve got 10 to 12…
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Healthy Diet for December 22 – Chilled Out? Warm Up!
Do you need to eat more to keep warm? That’s a tempting rationalization. But if your daily routine doesn’t change, you don’t need more calories. True, your body uses energy to stay warm. But you burn extra calories only if your body temperature drops enough to make you shiver. That said, can food or drink…