6 Easy Tips for Clean Eating on a Small Budget
Photo: Pond5 By Kristen Domonell for Life by DailyBurn Ever thought about cleaning up your diet but worry about the price tags on all that healthy food? You're not alone. Whole Foods Market, often nicknamed "Whole Paycheck" for its prices, recently announced the launch of a new, budget-friendly store geared toward millennial shoppers who share these cost concerns. "It's really challenging for people to make the right choices when price is sometimes the thing that strikes them in the face," says Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics spokesperson Libby Mills, MS, RDN, LDN, a nutrition and cooking coach in the Philadelphia ar...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Healthy food for July 4th: Red, white & berry parfait
A favorite summer holiday is just a few days away. July 4th calls for swimming, friends, family, fireworks and food … lots of food! Bringing something to a party or throwing one yourself? Bring a treat thats tasty, filling and good for you!
Try this Red, White & Berry Parfait.
Ingredients
1 cup of 0-2% plain/vanilla Greek yogurt
10 strawberries
1 cup of blueberries
1/2 cup of whole grain granola (with at least 3-4g of fiber/serving)
Prepare
Layer the following ingredients and place them in a mason jar or clear glass—make it festive!
First place the strawberries, then the yogurt, then the blueberries, then t...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - July 2, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Boston Children's Hospital staff Tags: Healthful eating parenting healthy eating preventive cardiology recipes Source Type: news
Purple Power For Your Brain
During one of my trips to Brazil a few years ago, I went in search of new healing herbs I could use at my wellness center. That’s when I discovered açaí berries.
Now everyone’s talking about these berries. And they really are one of the richest sources in antioxidants, vitamins A, B, C, and E, minerals and omega-3s.
In fact, I ended up including powdered açaí berries in one of my supplements.
Back then, they were pretty much a novelty outside of South America, but now I even see frozen açaí berry smoothie packs when I’m in the grocery store.
And that’s my problem with açaí berries – they grow mostly i...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - June 29, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Brain Health Nutrition Acai berry anthocyanin extract brain-derived neurotrophic Parkinson’s disease Source Type: news
10 Signs He Only Wants to Have Sex with You!
It's so great to meet someone, where the chemistry is there. You feel the excitement of a "love connection." The stimulating conversation and similar values you share with them -give you reason to believe: this is a person you'd enjoy getting to know for a possible relationship. Wrong! That may not be what's happening. After a few dates, it becomes clear that this charmer has no interest in an intimate and meaningful relationship with you. His real agenda is only to have sex with you. So, if you frequently have the experience of telling a friend, "He seemed so charming and interested in a relationship but turned out to...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The 20 amazing things you didn't know about strawberries
Delicious, sweet, yet gently tart, strawberries are among the most popular berries and the ideal snack for the warmer months. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
6 Creative New Ways to Enjoy Summer Fruits
Summer is peak season for many delicious fruits like strawberries, blueberries, watermelon, peaches and more. With so many wonderful choices, it's surprising that many people miss out on tasty ways to enjoy fruits all summer long.
Because fruits are sweet, many people think of them as dessert only, but fruit can add depth and flavor to salads and main dishes. Sweet fruits can balance out salty, tangy flavors, like mixing strawberries and feta cheese in a salad, or can mellow out the heat from chiles and other fiery spices, like salsas made with mango and chile peppers.
Less Sugar Than You Might Think
People with diabet...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UCLA scientist makes an impact on public health
It’s a long way from the small town of Carpi in Northern Italy to the UCLA campus where John Froines has made his professional home for the last 34 years. But when Carpi’s mayor presented the Fielding School professor emeritus with the prestigious 2013 Collegium Ramazzini Award for his contributions in occupational and environmental health research and policy, it illustrated the long reach and worldwide recognition of Froines’ body of work.
Over the course of a four-decade-plus career in the field of toxicology and exposure assessment, Froines has played an important role in some of the most seminal evidence-based po...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 16, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Clean your teeth with strawberries, banana peel and bicarbonate of soda
From turmeric powder and lemons to cider vinegar, coconut oil and strawberries, claims abound for these 'natural' teeth whiteners - but do they REALLY work? FEMAIL asks an expert. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Shyness: The Ultimate Teen Guide
I thought I was shy in grammar school, but in hindsight, I don’t think I was shy, exactly. Introverted seems a more accurate term. And yet, we often call people introverted when really they are just shy: The two are not the same. That’s just one of the musings I had while reading Shyness: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Bernardo J. Carducci and Lisa Kaiser. The book could prove helpful to extremely shy teens or the parents of very shy teens, and it brought many ideas to mind, some of which I’ll incorporate into my own parenting.
The first idea Carducci and Kaiser examine is what shyness really is, and who truly is shy...
Source: Psych Central - June 3, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Gwen Nicodemus Tags: Book Reviews Children and Teens General Motivation and Inspiration Parenting Personality Self-Help Social Phobia Bernardo Carducci coping with shyness Introvert Lisa Kaiser socially shy ultimate teen guide Source Type: news
What Would Your Last Meal Be?
On a recent road trip with my husband, we listened to a radio program about the last meal of a death row prisoner. While I can't remember the exact food items that the prisoner requested, his menu was something along the lines of: three Big Macs, two large fries, a large pizza, two pieces of cake, macaroni and cheese and more. The inmate's last meal of essentially carbs and fats brought me back to my eating disorder days when I likely would have ordered the same things if I were about to die.
I used to fantasize that if I was about to have my last meal, I would eat everything I never let myself have. Back in my dieting ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
3 Key Nutrients For Better Brainpower
By Nancy Christie
When it comes to what we eat, we usually worry more about our waistlines than our wisdom. But a diet that contains a wide assortment of healthy foods and nutrients doesn’t just benefit your body; it may protect your brain from cognitive decline as you age. In order to defend against a variety of age-related conditions that can impair your memory and the general functioning of your brain, a good first step is to concentrate on incorporating three nutrients into your diet: omega-3 fatty acids, flavonoids and vitamin E.
1. Omega-3 Fatty Acids for Brain Volume
For your memory to function smoothly, your br...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How the kitchen cupboard can give your beauty cabinet a run for its money
From slicing an orange and using it as a facial toner to slathering strawberries on your face to beat age spots, FEMAIL has rounded up the best all-natural beauty tricks. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Food for Thought
It's hard to grapple with the fact that the food you find at grocery stores is not always safe for consumption. Food scandals happen all over the world. And much more frequently and with much larger consequences than most of us realize. In 2008, contaminated infant formula affected 300,000 babies and young children. Six of them died. In 2011, many farmers lost acres of fruit harvest as the watermelons were exploding seemingly because they were sprayed with a growth-enhancing chemical. We have seen horsemeat scandals, toxic olive oil, contaminated strawberries and sprouts, cantaloupe with listeria and pink slime full...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Producing strawberries in high-pH soil at high elevations
Scientists designed an experiment with 16 strawberry cultivars planted in two perennial planting systems in New Mexico. The experiments evaluated strawberry tolerance to high-pH soil, and determined yield potential in high-pH soil of the high-elevation areas in the US Southwest. Results indicated that growers can produce certain varieties of strawberries in the challenging conditions. The study contains recommendations regarding the most tolerant strawberry cultivars for the conditions and region. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - April 6, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Producing strawberries in high-pH soil at high elevations
(American Society for Horticultural Science) Scientists designed an experiment with 16 strawberry cultivars planted in two perennial planting systems in New Mexico. The experiments evaluated strawberry tolerance to high-pH soil, and determined yield potential in high-pH soil of the high-elevation areas in the US Southwest. Results indicated that growers can produce certain varieties of strawberries in the challenging conditions. The study contains recommendations regarding the most tolerant strawberry cultivars for the conditions and region. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 6, 2015 Category: Biology Source Type: news
