9/7/09

Unreliable Food Facts On Food Labels

Food facts on labels of food products, may not contain all the nutritional information you need, to make an informed decision. Some labels do not state all the ingredients and additives included in your food products. Some of these ingredients may be dangerous to your health and you may not know that these ingredients are included in the food products.

For example, you may be allergic to wheat. Your best option is to visit a dietitian who will inform you how to purchase products that do not include wheat and which foods to avoid. You may be given a list of wheat free food. So now you now how to buy wheat free food without a need to look at all the food facts on all your food products.

You may notice the range of healthy food in your average food store is rather limited and some of the labels do not contain all the food facts you need, to make an informed decision on your food purchases. Your best option is to go to a health food store and find the healthy food you need to maintain your health.

This is why you need to buy food from a reliable source as not all food facts are on the food labels of food products.

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9/5/09

Easy To See Everything With Open Kitchen Shelving

Kitchen shelving makes it easier to see all you need in your kitchen. If you need a slow cooker, then you can see it waiting for you on the open shelf. You do not have to open cupboards and search for it. It is much easier to see everything you need, with open shelves.

You may need to take precautions, to keep everything clean as open shelves may allow your kitchen tools and appliances to gather dust, grease and grime. But, if you know how to keep your kitchen clean, then you should be able to maintain a clean kitchen with open shelves.

Always take care when reaching for high places in your kitchen. Be conscious of avoiding possible accidents, like kitchen appliances falling on you or slipping and breaking your bones. Many people end up in hospital emergency departments due to accidents in the kitchen, and in other places around the home. You should always take precautions to avoid accidents in your kitchen.

Open shelves in the kitchen allow you to see your kitchen tools, your cooking ingredients and your cleaning tools. You do not have to search for hours for that tiny bottle of hot pepper you want to use in your cooking.

It is much easier to see everything in your kitchen with open kitchen shelving.

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9/3/09

Taking Action To Recover From Food Addiction

Food addiction may be the result of a need for an emotional escape or lifestyle challenges. For example, you may be addicted to a type of food and when you start eating that food you cannot stop. The food controls you, rather than you control how much you will eat.

One example, is a glass of wine with your dinner. Many medical experts agree, one glass of wine with your meal is good for your health. Drinking a bottle of whisky every morning is bad for your health and you need help.

Junk food is another form of addiction, where one may eat 3 or 4 burgers with lots of chips and a high sugar soft drink for their lunch. This meal is an example of bad nutrition and if you continue to have the same lunch every day with this amount of junk food, you will soon be overweight, have many health problems and may even become another statistic in the obese epidemic.

Taking another example, you may be addicted to eating 10 jam donuts a day. To many people, this may be an extreme example, but this happens when one is addicted to one type of food. Eating this much of one type of food, to the exclusion of vegetables and other healthy food, may lead to adverse health consequences.

Your first step is to visit your local medical doctor, who may refer you to a dietitian. The dietitian will help you change your food habits and widen the range of food you eat, so you do not eat too much of the same type of food. If the dietitian cannot solve your addiction then you may need to go back to your doctor and seek the help of a mental health expert, specializing in food problems.

There are many options for recovery from food addiction. But your first step, is to take action, to get your life back and do not let food control you.

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9/1/09

Making A Light Meal With An Avocado Salad Recipe

Avocado salad recipe can be used to create a light meal. Many of the ingredients for this recipe can be found in most food stores and you can use alternative low calorie and low fat ingredients for a low calorie version.

For example, instead of a high calorie salad dressing, you can use low calorie salad dressing. You can reduce the fat in chicken, by taking off the skin, as most of the fat in chicken is with the skin. You can also swap the mozzarella cheese for a low fat version.

Preparing the salad for your family, may provide a surprise, as they may never have tasted such a delicious and filling salad. It can be eaten as a main meal, or as a small side salad. But be warned, once you start eating an avocado salad, you may not want to eat anything else, as the meal is so filling.

It is different to a regular salad and it can be eaten on its own, without a main meal. You can enjoy it as an afternoon light meal, especially when your family is sitting outside on the deck under the shade, as it may be too hot to eat a full course meal, under the hot summer sun.

Summer is a good time to enjoy a light meal made with an avocado salad recipe.

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8/28/09

Maintaining Your Health With The 10 Healthiest Foods

10 healthiest foods include fruit, vegetables and fish. They all contain good levels of vitamins, proteins and minerals we all need to stay healthy. For example, berries including strawberries, contain plenty of Vitamin C to help fight colds and infections. Avocados help reduce cholesterol, if you are on a diet to reduce cholesterol then you should eat plenty of avocados.

Garlic is good for your heart and helps fight infections. You can eat healthy food including plenty of fruit and vegetables with your meals, and you will go a long way to maintaining your health. A lot of these fruit and vegetables contain many of the vitamins, minerals and oxidants we all need to maintain our health.

You can grow a lot of the fruit and vegetables in your own garden, in your backyard. Especially tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, lemons and more. This means you can pick your fruit and vegetables and use them in your meals on the same day.

When you buy fruit and vegetables from the store, you are not sure how long they have taken to transport the product to the store and how long they have been sitting on the shelves, losing their natural flavours, all the time. If you pick your vegetables on the same day you use them in your meals, you are assured you are getting the most fresh vegetables and the most delicious flavours.

Having your own garden, will help ensure you have easy access to most of the 10 healthiest foods.

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8/26/09

Surprise Your Friends With Coffee And Tea Gift Baskets

Coffee and tea gift baskets are available online and in specialty stores. As coffee and tea are very popular beverages, only separated by favourite choices, buying a gift basket may be a pleasant surprise, especially if you know the recipient loves coffee and tea.

You can find out if your friend likes Earl Grey or Twinnings tea, just by watching him prepare his tea. He may like tea leaves and does not like tea bags. You can discreetely find out his favourite choice of tea leaves either by asking him or look at the package when he makes his tea. Then when you buy your gift, ensure you include a package of his favourite tea leaves.

You can show how hard you have worked to surprise him with your efforts to find the perfect coffee and tea gift baskets.

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8/24/09

Giving Your Best Friend A Healthy Snack Gift Basket

Snack gift basket is an ideal gift for someone who wants to lose weight naturally. You can arrange a basket with healthy snack foods to give to your friends and family, to celebrate a birthday, college graduation or any other special occasion.

Rather than giving a high sugar high fat snack, you can include a trail mix, dried fruits, unshelled sunflower seeds and wholegrain crackers. A lot of these snacks can be found in many food stores, but the largest variety can be found in health food stores. Especially the organic food variety.

If you are looking for snack food with ingredients that are organically grown, without chemicals, then you will find one or two snacks in the snack section in food stores, but there are often a bigger range of organic health food snacks in health food stores.

If you know your best friend is having a birthday and you want to buy him something unexpected, then getting him a snack gift basket, may be ideal. Especially if he has been talking about losing a few pounds over the next few months.

A lot of these snacks are available in local food stores, but if you want to find some of the low carb, low calorie and wholegrain snacks then you should be able to find them in health food stores. Talking to staff may give you more ideas about what you should include in the healthy snack gift basket.

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