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100% Fruit: A Guide to Buying Better Jam, Juice, and Popsicles
With so much mass produced food lining the shelves of our supermarkets today, it is often unclear what our food is actually made from. Sneaky advertising and packaging makes it even harder to decipher our food contents and make healthy choices for our families. Products made of 100% fruits can be a great treat if [...]

Are Veggie Chips Actually Healthy?
Healthy is an interesting word. What determines if a food is healthy? For the sake of this review, let’s define healthy as nutrient rich food, as opposed to food which contains little to no positive nutrients, but has high levels of sodium, cholesterol, or fat. While many different brands of veggie chips claim to be [...]

Why You Should Invest in Complex Carbs
In the world of diets and diet pills, you’ve probably heard terms like “complex carbohydrates” and “simple carbohydrates,” “good carbs” and “bad carbs” thrown around. In this article we’ll explain the difference between the different types of carbs and explain why you should buy products that contain complex carbohydrates.
First, complex carbs are the good carbs [...]

Foods that Naturally Curb Your Appetite
You’ve got two options here: You can buy SlimmerX or Herbal Phentremine or any other diet pill that helps curb your appetite, or you can learn how to go grocery shopping for foods that naturally do the same thing.
Next you go shopping, make sure you fill up your cart with these fiber-rich foods—they’ll fill you [...]

Arnold Sandwich Thins, Thomas’ Bagel Thins, and Vitalicious Muffin Tops
Carb lovers unite with unanimous delight over the popularity of smaller portion carb treats. These three diet de-lites are sure to tickle your carb tooth, fill up that belly, and make you forget that they’re only 100 calories each.
1. Arnold Sandwich Thins: The truth is, if you’re going to just have a plain turkey sandwich [...]

Reasons Not To Ditch Breakfast
Besides for the fact that breakfast foods are some of my favorites—I’m a bit of a cereal addict—there are many other reasons why I make sure to eat breakfast everyday. First off, I wake up hungry. Perhaps people who wake up without stinging hunger pangs actually consider whether or not they should have breakfast, but [...]

Are Cereal Bars a Healthy Breakfast Substitute?
As with most things there are two sides to this story. Most health sources believe that breakfast bars are a gimmick: an unhealthy and poor substitute for a well-balanced breakfast that should probably be taken with a diet pill and a vitamin if you want them to do any good. Others (mainly the cereal bar [...]

Sugar Substitutes: A Comparison
We all know that sugar is bad for you. But some of the sugar substitutes on the market are tasteless and don’t really work. So what can you use to replace sugar to help you cut it out of your diet so that you can lose weight?

Splenda – This is the obvious choice. It [...]

Oil Substitutes: All the Flavor, None of the Fat
We all know it’s true: frying things is bad for you. But oil is used in so many other recipes as well, and it is not good for you. Oil is basically fat. This means that the more you use, the more fat you are ingesting. So how can you reduce your oil intake to [...]

The Benefits of Vacuum-Packed Tuna Packs
Health-wise consumers, listen up! I’m sure you’ve seen these handy-dandy packets of tuna on your local grocery store shelves. Maybe they’re a little more expensive than the traditional cans, but when it comes to a healthy convenient food, you can’t get much healthier or convenient than these neat packs.
The health benefits of tuna:
• Tuna can [...]

Kashi TLC Dark Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
If you love a nice, chewy chocolate cookie but not the idea of all of that white sugar and cheap white flour they’re usually made with, prepare to rejoice! Kashi has done it again with their whole grain TLC cookie. Oh, and they’re dark chocolate oatmeal cookies. Yes, the soft cookies are filled with whole [...]

Glenny’s Yummy Low-cal Soy Crisps
Soy. Just the name seems to turn off so many people, making folks think of flavorless tofu or crunchy hippies and their often tasteless meals (no offense to you crunchies out there!). I was one once of those. But I changed.
My Glenny Soy Crisp story began when I came upon these in a neighborhood store, [...]
Slim-Fast Bar Review
I always though of Slim Fast as diet shakes/meal replacements which were less than tasty and not much beyond. You know—“ a shake for breakfast, another for lunch and a sensible dinner.” But boy, was I surprised when I discovered Slim Fast Optima –advertised as “Controls Hunger for Up To Four Hours” Caramel Crispy Peanut [...]
Hershey’s No-Carb Treats
Ok, chocolate lovers who have gone into hiding after joining the ever-growing low carb dieters group: brace yourselves. You can now eat and enjoy chocolate again. Hershey’s recently introduced two new sugar-free and low-carb versions of its best-selling chocolates, including an amazing, sugar-free Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and candy bars with only 1 gram of [...]
100-Calorie Snack Packs
Anyone who is watching their weight knows that it is all about controlling your portions and much more than the foods you eat. Many people struggle with keeping snack foods around the house because they are unaware of their portions and end up eating too much. But now, our once-a-diet-enemy Nabisco has created a whole [...]

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