Order vegetables. And be mindful of the amounts you eat.A report by the USDA Economic Research Service, (report number 90) found that eating one meal away from home a week worsens the quality of the diet and increases calorie intake. And depending on which meal you eat out (breakfast, lunch, or dinner), you will eat […]
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Since attending a seminar on mindful eating, I’ve been hooked on the concept. Not that I wasn’t aware of it before, but lately, it seems to pop up everywhere. From Brian Wansink‘s–author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think–videos and Mindless Products website, to Ellyn Satter‘s–author of several books on feeding children–Division
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A study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association compared the dietary and exercise behaviors of 62 adolescents who lost weight with 68 adolescents who didn’t. While their findings are most applicable to individuals 12 to 20 years old, they can still be applied to adults. What’s preventing you to kiss the extra weight
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Few weeks ago, Kati Mora from Around the Plate contributed a post on the benefits of breakfast for weight loss. She wrote, Research shows that individuals who put in the effort to eat breakfast regularly are the ones who are more likely to achieve and maintain a healthy weight Kati made the point that breakfast
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On Saturday, I posted “Stop Emotional Eating.” We were snowed-in here in the Mid-Atlantic area. What that meant is being around food, food, and more food. According to one of my readers, Nothing to do and no food?..no way Your comments along with a video that I stumbled upon inspired me to write about mindless
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Pantries can be a nest of unhealthy, junk, and bad-for-you foods. Yours doesn’t have to be the same. What processed foods can you include in your pantry? And what are the non-processed foods that need to claim a permanent spot there? Read the “12 Must Have Foods for a Healthy Pantry” at Rebecca Scritchfield’s Balanced
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With 24 hours of continuous snow (and still coming), the idea of being stuck at home–and a fully loaded kitchen–is a little daunting. Will I find myself wandering to the kitchen numerous times? Snowed-in or not, at some point in time, you’ve probably fallen victim to undefined urges to eat. Have your eyes ever wanted
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Food scientists in the United Kingdom are developing a product with the promise of solving our obesity epidemic. It’s a product to be mixed with milk and taken either with a meal or in between meals. To sum up the science behind it, the product forms a gel in your stomach making you feel full.
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By guest blogger: Kati Mora Breakfast has to be the hardest meal of the day. It requires us to get up earlier, eat when most of us are not even hungry, and not spill any food on the clothes we plan to wear to work. Nevertheless, breakfast is important. We have all heard that it
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Here’s how American Mexican meals go wrong: you start off with a heap of tortilla chips and finish off with a fiesta of cheese, sour cream, guacamole, tortilla bread, rice, and beans. It’s not impossible to get up from the table 1,000 calories heavier. But the truth is, Mexican meals—if done right—can be a practical
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