Archive for August, 2008
« Previous EntriesGotta Have Pizza
I doubt many restaurant pizzas are overly healthy. Too much grease! Too much salt! Too much bad fats! And I’m sure frozen pizzas aren’t any better. The amount of salt in those things is phenominal!
Like most foods, if you want to make it healthier, you’re going to have to make it yourself.
Yes, you can make a [...]
Baby Steps To More Health Food In Your Diet
One step at a time. Making easy changes to get more health food in your diet. That’s what I’m talking about! I’m not the only one who thinks making small changes can add up to better health. No, you can’t make just ONE small change and everything will be glorious, but make one, and then a little later [...]
Oatmeal in a Slow Cooker
An EASY Health Food - Oatmeal in a Crockpot!
I’m always searching for new ways to make it easier to cook good food. I’d tried cooking oatmeal in a slow cooker before, but it came out too mushy for my tastes.
Recently I got a new cookbook, “The Healthy Slow Cooker.” I was delighted to see a [...]
Oats, Groats, What’s The Difference?
As you may remember, oats are one of the Super Heroes of Health Foods.
They contain vitamin E, several B-vitamins, calcium, magnesium and potassium. Oats also have some of the trace minerals selenium, copper, zinc, iron and manganese. They’re full of good-for-you phytochemicals and have both soluble and insoluble fiber. Oats have been found to benefit [...]
Watermelon - Summertime Treat & Health Food
Sure you knew it tastes good, but did you realize it’s a really good health food?
The History of Watermelon
The first reference to watermelons was discovered in ancient hieroglyphics on the walls of Egyptian buildings. Watermelon is thought to have originated there in the Kalahari Desert of Africa some 5,000 years ago. They were often placed [...]
Mythbusters - You Can Believe What The Labels Tell You
Ignore the advertising at the end, and references to previous lectures. Just concentrate on the message in this video. I didn’t realize how many ways labels could fool and confuse you about something like the amount of fat in a product.
And here I thought low fat meant low fat. Silly me.
You just can’t believe what [...]
More Brain Food
We’ve already figured out that fish, egg yolks, legumes, nuts, meat and vegetables are part of a healthy diet. (This is assuming, of course, that you’re not deep frying everything, ha!)
As for more on the “why” these are good foods, consider choline.
Feeding Health Food To Your Neurotransmitters
Neuro what? Nerve Transmitters, that’s what! This is the [...]