Archive for the ‘Nutrition Tips’ Category
College Health Tips: Diversify Your Diet
College Health Tips: Diversify Your Diet Everyone knows it’s important to eat a variety of foods to get daily required values of vitamins and minerals. What might be surprising is how many different places you can find familiar nutrients. Here are some common foods that you might not have known are great sources of the [...]
Nutrition Tips: Top Ten Healthy Weight Tips
Top Ten Healthy Weight Tips Be realistic about your body weight. You can’t change the shape you were born with. Make regular physical activity part of each day. Include a minimum of 30 minutes of moderate physical activity on most, if not all, days of the week. Click here for Top Ten Activity Tips. Have [...]
Meal Planning, Healthy Weight and Active Living Tips
Meal Planning Tips A weekly meal plan can help you get organized, cut down on trips to the store, and reduce reliance on take-out or delivered foods. Get other family members involved in the planning, shopping, preparation and clean-up. Variety is the spice of life! Be adventurous and experiment with some new taste sensations by [...]
Nutrition Tips: Food and Nutrient Advice and Recommendations
Nutrition Tips: Our list of food and nutrient advice and recommendations Carbohydrate foods are an important part of healthy eating and are the main source of energy for most people. Include more whole grains breads and cereals, rice, pasta, vegetables and fruit as well as beans, peas and lentils in your meal plans. Milk and [...]
Health Tips: Know Your Cholesterol
Who is affected by High Cholesterol? No one is truly safe from the effects of high cholesterol. It affects the health of both men and women. High cholesterol also affects the health of all ages (over 16% of those affected are under 65!). What exactly is cholesterol? Total cholesterol is the amount of fat found [...]
Nutrition Tips: Fruits and Vegetables As Chronic Disease Fighters
Nutrition Tips: Together, cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and stroke account for more than 75% of all deaths in the U.S. The latest scientific evidence provides even greater support for the role fruits and vegetables play in helping to protect against all of these diseases. Adults who increase their fruit and [...]
Nutrition Tips for Healthy Living After 50 Years of Age
We all hope to live to be much older than 50 years of age. Hopefully this list of nutrition tips for healthy living after 50 years of age will help: Grocery shop with a friend. It is pleasant and can save money if you share items that you can only use half of, such as [...]
Nutrition Tips: How Fruits and Vegetables Fill the Nutrient Gap
Potassium: Most Americans get less than half the amount of potassium they need for healthy blood pressure. In addition to helping maintain healthy blood pressure, potassium may reduce the risk of developing kidney stones, and possibly decrease bone loss with age. Some of the best sources of potassium may come as a surprise. Great sources [...]
Nutrition Tips: How Eating More Fruits and Vegetables May Help Control Weight
Fruits and vegetables can help you feel full on fewer calories than if you ate the same amount of many other foods. That’s because fruits and vegetables are high in water and fiber content and therefore low in calories relative to their volume. Studies show that a calorie-controlled low-fat diet that allows unlimited consumption of [...]