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A Healthy Diet Helps Teen Lungs

Common sense says that a healthy diet helps children and teenagers develop into healthy adults. A recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health focused on lung performance and diet in teenagers and found that certain nutritional deficiencies can lead to asthma, coughing, and wheezing. More than two thousand teens from the United States and Canada were surveyed. Many of the teenagers surveyed did not get the USDA recommended amount of fruits and vegetables in their diets. Only eleven percent of teens surveyed took a daily vitamin supplement. The teens with the worst diets — those who didn’t get … Continue reading →

10 Fabulously Healthy Foods

I love to blog about rich, fattening foods here, but I also think about my health. With a rambunctious two year old, I need to do all I can to maintain my health, in hopes of being able to keep up with him! So here are ten healthy foods I plan to start incorporating into my diet: 10. Garlic Okay, many of us think of garlic as a way to ward off vampires, but it can also ward off the common cold and the flu. Garlic has many vitamins, including C and B6. It is also believed to help protect … Continue reading →

The Rainbow of Antioxidants

The more colorful your diet is, the more antioxidants you get. Antioxidants help repair and reduce cell damage all over your body, for a laundry list of beneficial effects: Keep your skin plump and firm. Keep your memory sharp. Prevent disease. Prevent arterial hardening that can lead to heart disease or stroke. Every different color of fruit and vegetable offers the body a different type of healthy antioxidant and other nutrients. Inside and out, antioxidants are good for you. Red fruits and veggies, like tomatoes, red kidney beans, red onion, red bell pepper, radicchio, and watermelon, are full of lycopene. … Continue reading →

The Different Kinds of Fat

It used to be that fat was the enemy. But the more we learn, the more we realize that there are some kinds of fat that our bodies do need! More important than the quantity of fat in your diet is the quality of the fat you consume. Experts suggest that between twenty and thirty-five percent of your daily calories should come from fat. But what type of fat is the best? Trans fat: probably the worst kind of fat out there. It raises your LDL (bad cholesterol) and lowers your HDL (good cholesterol), raising your risk of heart disease … Continue reading →

Twice Delicious: Tex Mex Pork Wraps

I don’t know about you, but whenever I cook in my crock pot I have leftovers. I do it on purpose actually. It is nearly impossible to cook with a “helpful” three year old and 20 month old twins underfoot. So the day after crock pot night is leftover night. I actually have two portions of leftovers (generally) and so I’ll usually freeze meat for another meal later. In any case, I thought you all might like to know what I did with my leftover Sweet Barbecue Pork Chops that we made in the slow cooker. First of all. . … Continue reading →

Snacks to go

When ladies at our church started talking about losing weight, we all got together with our healthy recipes. We took turns baking and sharing our recipes with everyone. When it was spring, we started walking too. We all realized that our main problem was snacking. We all loved to snack and found that when there are children in the house, you can’t help but snack. So to solve this problem, we tried the snacks to go. What we would do is fix these snacks in the mornings, even if we don’t plan to leave the house. We are allowed to … Continue reading →

Ways to Survive the Holidays While Dieting

During the holiday seasons, most people completely blow the diet. The reason is the wonderful food and huge quantities that are constantly shoved in our faces. Holidays are definitely a time of year when every event is designed around food. Although a little bit is a great thing, too much can cause you to regain everything you worked so hard to lose. Therefore, to survive this holiday season without packing on the pounds, we have pulled some helpful tips together. For starters, many people go out to eat during the holidays. If you are among those, take time to call … Continue reading →