December 24, 2009

• 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 [...]

December 7, 2009

• Healthy Take-Along Products

  We’re lucky that we live in a day and age where health is taken seriously by the food industry. For on-the-go people grabbing a quick snack or meal doesn’t need to consist of potato chips and granola bars (which are not as healthy as they sound). Try these other grab-and-go options to eat at school, [...]

September 17, 2009

• Applesauce to the Rescue!

  To me, applesauce is a diet saver. Whenever I try and stick to a low fat diet, I go crazy not being able to eat brownies or cookies or other yummy baked goods, but I also can’t bring myself to put in all that oil or butter that these recipes call for.
  You can replace applesauce [...]

July 7, 2009

• Why Brown Rice Syrup May Be the Best Sweetener For Your Health

  We now know that on of the ways to start eating healthy and lose weight is to limit the amount of sucrose in the diet, as many sucrose-based products are highly refined and are best used in moderation.  Enter Brown Rice syrup.  Brown rice syrup (BRS) (and barley malt for that matter) is composed of [...]

• Sucanat Vs. Turbinado Sugars

  If you’re like me, you never really new the difference between Sucanat and Turbinado sugar.  Well the purpose of this post is to clear things up for you a bit.  Sucanat is a contraction of “Sugar Cane Natural.”  It is non-refined cane sugar which, unlike refined and processed white sugar, retains its molasses content when [...]

• 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 [...]

• Benefits of and Baking With Fructose

  Before you look for an easy solution and start popping Phentermine, it’s important to take a good look at your diet, and see what kind of adjustments you can be making.
  I’d like to start with analyzing your daily sugar intake.
  We already know the role that sugar plays in impeding weight loss and helping you to [...]

• 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 [...]

June 10, 2009

• Splenda Not So Splendid?

  All the rage in the diet and low-carb worlds, Splenda is the brand name for sucralose, a sugar derivative, which is made through a process that converts natural sugar cane to a no-calorie, non-carb sweetener.  And it is doing a great job of kicking aspartame (NutraSweet) and Saccharin (Sweet N Low) to the curb in [...]

• 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 [...]

• Fat Free Pringles

  Since it is well known that with Pringles “once you pop, you can’t stop,” it is no surprise that we all can remember one time or another when we have eaten an entire can of Pringles in one sitting.  They are so yummy and light and tasty.  But oh so filled with calories and fat—a [...]

• Slim Down Now with D-Loss

  By extracting essences of whole plants, their many compounds can be combined to produce a powerful therapeutic effect for weight loss and other health concerns.  A natural aid for weight loss, the ingredients in a great diet pill called D-Loss work synergistically together, to yield strong weight loss effects, especially when used in combination with [...]

• 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 [...]

• Lose Weight with Over the Counter Alli

  Alli is quickly finding its place in the world of diet pills as the one that’s the first been approved for over-the-counter use for real, true weight loss. A low-dose version of the prescription drug, Xenical (orlistat) which successfully assists obese people in lowering weight by suppressing the body’s ability to absorb fat in the [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]