Tag Archives: eating Healthy

Healthy Eating On the Road

If your plans for Labor Day Weekend include travel, here are some tasty tips for eating healthy on the road.
Typical freeway fare includes fast food, microwave-ready service station options, bags of chips, and lots of sodas. These foods are almost always full of bad fats, lots of calories, and not much valuable nutrition. Plus, eating [...]

8 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight Part 3

In this blog series we’ve been discussing some of the most overlooked reasons you may be hitting a fat loss plateau or not losing weight. Today we are going to discuss diet imbalances.
First, I usually don’t like to use the word “diet” when discussing this topic because it implies calorie restriction or changing your nutrition [...]

Roast Chicken with Citrus and Thyme

This recipe serves:  4
Ingredients
1 whole chicken, about 5 pounds
salt to taste
freshly ground black pepper
1 lemon, halved
1 orange, halved
1/2 onion
1/2 cup roughly chopped celery
4 sprigs fresh thyme
1 tablespoon olive oil
Cooking Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Rinse the chicken inside and out with cold water. Pat dry with paper towels. Season the cavity of the chicken [...]

Ancho Turkey Chili with Roasted Corn

 This recipe serves:  6
Serving Size: about 1 1/2 cups
Ingredients
3 rehydrated ancho chili peppers, stemmed and seeded
2 cloves garlic
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups chopped tomatoes, fresh or canned
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound ground turkey
1 onion, chopped
3 cups low-sodium turkey or chicken broth
2 [...]

Another Reason To Avoid High-fat Diet

Another Reason To Avoid High-Fat Diet
It Can Disrupt Our Biological Clock, Say Hebrew University Researchers
Indulgence in a high-fat diet can not only lead to overweight because of excessive calorie intake, but also can affect the balance of circadian rhythms – everyone’s 24-hour biological clock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have shown.
The biological clock regulates the [...]