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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 [...]

What’s the Difference Between Carbs and Net Carbs?
Whether you are looking to lose weight, lower cholesterol, or just simply eat a more healthy diet, you are probably thinking about eating fewer carbohydrates. Before you cut the carbs out for good, consider the different types of carbohydrates, and how they impact your health and weight.
Simple Carbohydrates – are the carbs found in white [...]

Is it Worth the Extra Buck to Go Whole-wheat?
Lots of products are advertised as whole wheat. Are they really that much healthier? Is it worth it to spend more money to buy pricey whole grain pastas, breads, crackers, etc? Let’s break it down slowly. Whole wheat flour is flour made by grinding and mashing whole grains of wheat. White flour, or bleached four, [...]

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 [...]

Do Protein Shakes Help With Weight Loss?
Protein shakes are extremely popular with weight loss programs. Since the body requires up to 63 grams of protein a day, a protein shake can be a great way to get enough protein and can serve as a replacement for high calorie meals, to ensure weight loss. However, it is important to check that your [...]

The Benefits of Weight Loss Teas
Tea has been acknowledged throughout the ages as having medicinal benefits. But now there are other reasons to drink certain teas, hailed as weight loss aids. Oolong tea is a prime example, helping the body burn fats in a healthy way. Oolong is a traditional Chinese tea that has been used for years to promote [...]

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 [...]

Honey is Good for You, Sugar!
Honey is one of the best health foods out here in terms of the benefits it can offer, but this of course, like with all foods, depends on the quality of the honey you buy. No I’m not talking about the honey at most people’s homes which is often half corn syrup and tastes like [...]
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, [...]
Breakfast Bars: A Top 3 Review
There are so many breakfast granola and whole grain bars available today that taste good but who know exactly which ones are healthy and good for you and which ones are essentially junk? You almost need a nutritionist to guide you through the grocery store these days, and thus, I have written this short article [...]
The Amazing Acai Berry
Touted a “top ten” in Dr. Nicholas Perricone’s list of Super Foods on Oprah’s Website, one of the new rages in the world of diet pills and supplements is the Acai berry. But what is this exotic berry all about? Originally harvested in the rainforests of Brazil, Acai berry tastes like yummy a mix of [...]

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