Too Many Apples Spoil the Pie: One Bag of Apples Makes Two Great Dishes

Apple picking in the fall brings to mind the scent of warm apple pie wafting through the house, and snacking on the sweet and tart fruit. It also brings to mind an exorbitant amount of ripe fruit that must be eaten right away. Instead of packing on the calories with rich apple crisps and other butter-laden desserts, here are two healthy recipes that will change the pace and use up some of your freshly picked fruit. Apple pancakes are a delightfully different way to start the day with your favo

Diet to Go Review: Meal Delivery Service Makes Healthy Eating Easy

Recently I was provided with two weeks worth of meals from Diet to Go , a meal delivery service. One week of fresh prepared foods and one week of meals for the freezer were provided. For the purposes of this post, I will be discussing the fresh delivery option. Diet to Go offers two calorie levels for weight loss – 1200 and 1600 calories a day; as well as three meal plans – low fat traditional, vegetarian, and low carb. After looking over the menu choices, I chose the 1600 calorie a day versi

Nutrition Is More Than The Nutrition Facts Box

Most people pay little attention to the nutritional content of their food until they are on, or about to begin a diet. Then they take a keen interest in seeing which diet has less calories or less carbohydrates. But it is a simple fact that most popular diets do not have nearly as many positive effects as their creators would have us believe. Most of the serious diets we hear about work by simply removing a food or food group from your daily diet. This sometimes means eating less of certain f

Making Healthy Restaurant Choices

Oct.05, 2009 in UncategorizedAt a popular pizza chain, the personal pan pizza with sausage packs 740 calories and 39 grams of fat. And at one major fast-food joint, a triple cheeseburger with everything has 810 calories and 47 grams of fat — two meals’ worth of calories and more fat than most of us should scarf down in an entire day. The bright spots in this grease-spattered scenario? First, you. Your power as a restaurant patron lies in your order. The waiter, cook, and manager want you t

Hidden Calories In Drinks Can Stop You Losing Weight

by James Osman By the year 2015, 75% of U.S. adults are expected to be obese or overweight. Beyond an issue of physical appearances, obesity contributes to a range of health related dangers, issues which will only get bigger as more and more of us do. Of course our obesity epidemic is to be expected when you realize that we Americans take in from 150-300 more calories on a daily basis than we did just 30 years ago. There are many reasons for this - Fast foods, processed and prepared meals, e

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