Dedicated to my wonderful island coconut trees, the trees of life. I am often asked, “What encouraged you to follow your inner child guides to a pristine private island paradise to live the rest of your life surrounded by coconut, the tree of life?” Here is my story. At age 36, after traveling the globe
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Business Plan Tips for a Restaurant Business Plan
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The Coffee Culture in the USA
It wasn’t until I moved to the US that I started drinking coffee regularly and became what they call in the Netherlands a ‘koffieleut’, which translates literally into ‘coffee socialite.’ Although the average European drinks more coffee per year than the average American, the cultural importance and its effects on the average European seems to
3 Ways Your Body Uses Your Diet
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Still Think of Chocolate As Health Food?
This isn’t exactly news because it came to light several years ago, but chocolate isn’t the health food it was proclaimed to be, say, 5 or so years ago. Yet people still seem to think it is – so they eat it and tell themselves it’s good for them. Why they do that? Well, they
A Weight Loss Surgery Journal Marks Progress and Healing
We have heard it all our dieting life: “keep a food journal, it will keep you accountable for what you eat.” That advice always failed me, the best I could ever keep a food journal was through breakfast, I did not want to leave written evidence of my eating behavior. But there is one time
The Best Tasting Medifast Foods
The other day, I received an email from a reader who was trying to put together a custom medifast order but wasn’t sure which foods to chose. She asked me to give her a list of what were the best tasting foods. I was happy to do that and I’ll share my list with you below,
What is Astaxanthin? Discover the Benefits, Food Sources and Side-Effects
What is astaxanthin anyway? It is a carotenoid and a powerful antioxidant. Have you ever wondered why flamingos are pink? They get their color from the astaxanthin in their diet. This is also one of the reasons why salmon has a pinkish color. Astaxanthin originally comes from a microalgae called Haematococcus pluvialis. The reason you
Pairing Food and Wine is a Matter of Taste
First off let me say that I am in no way a wine snob. I do not believe that there is an ultimate right and wrong way to pair wine with food. It all boils down to your personal taste and the tastes of your guests. Most people like to pair white wines with white
The Five CRITICAL Things to Do For Your Health and Weight Loss
I’m often asked what is the best diet, or the best food program, best exercise program and which single best book to recommend to improve your health, fitness or weight loss. The answer is that there is no best way to do it. There is no best book, and there is no right way or
The Good Side of Processed Food
Processed food includes food stuff that has been altered from its natural condition for safety concerns and also for convenience. Sometimes we think that processed foods are bad but it is just a one big misconception among the people in general and processed food is as good as any other food product. Let’s take an
The Best Food For EXTRA Energy
Supercharge your energy levels this year with these essential five star super foods. It’s that time of the year, well into January when you are getting back into the swing of business, family and exciting projects for your year ahead. It’s when you want to feel focused and energized. Choosing to eat the foods that
Healthy, Nutritious And Delicious Recipes For Your Toddler
As a parent, our focus always remains that our kid should eat healthy food. On the contrary, kids are known to be picky eaters and making them eat something healthy is a difficult task at times. We constantly look for recipes that are healthy and will help in increasing our baby’s weight. We should not
Getting Healthy Before You Get Pregnant Leads to a Healthier Pregnancy and Baby
I have found many teenage girls being choosy and sulky over food and I include myself in this category. But once they start learning how to cook, the mother’s wacky old recipe tastes interesting if the young lady cooks it herself. Some women start eating all the veggies and fruits which they once hated as
How to Stick to Your Healthy Eating Plan
If you are on a diet or are trying to live a healthy lifestyle, temptation is your biggest enemy. Being on a diet means you agonize over everything you put in your mouth. Peer pressure to eat at fast food restaurants or pizza joints makes it even tougher. This can be very frustrating for the
Healthy High-Calorie Foods For Weight Gain
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Healthy Eating? Yes You Can – Just Decide to Make a Plan!
Healthy eating can keep you physically thin, mentally sharp and brimming with more energy than a caffeine-overdosed energizer bunny. But… There aren’t many people who do it consistently…even though they want to. Okay, so if everyone wants to eat healthy, how come we’re all doing such a lousy job of it? It’s because we eat
Healthy Kids Meals At Restaurants – Is Your Child Eating Right?
The growing instances of child obesity have forced parents to take a second look at their children’s food plate. As a parent, you want to make sure that your child eats only those foods that fulfill a kid’s nutrition needs. However, there is a limit to the amount of control you can exert. For all
Eat Healthy
Paying attention to what we eat is one of the most important and simple things we can do to improve our health. The people in most advanced civilizations have been exposed to highly processed foods for several generations. During this processing of our food, many of the nutritional benefits of the food are processed out.
7 Tips for a Healthy Digestive System
Having a healthy digestive system is extremely important. Whether you are an athlete bodybuilder or average Joe, it’s important for your body to break down and digest foods and convert them into energy as efficiently as possible. “Your digestive system breaks down the foods you eat into the nutrients your body needs. If you neglect
Longer Life With A Healthy Diet
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything”. (Thomas Carlyle) Health is far better than wealth. Better health is considered essential for human happiness and well-being. Persons who are physically and mentally healthy also play a very vital role in the economic growth of their country as they are more
5 Top Tips For Kid-Friendly Healthy Lunch Ideas
Making sure our kids eat healthy food has, rightly so, become a national obsession and I am sure, like most parents, you want healthy lunch ideas to help your kids be motivated, full of energy and reaching their true potential. There are some really outstanding reasons for making sure our kids eat healthy and here
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle For The Rest of Your Life
A healthy lifestyle encompasses all of the components of healthy living, eating food which your body finds highly nutritious, exercising the body on a consistent basis, getting enough rest and sleep, drinking plenty of fresh water etc. The real way to maintain that kind of lifestyle is to take action on all of those things
Your Health Starts Here: Enrich Your Well Being – Eat Better Food
All of this starts at the moment you go shopping. Shopping smart is the beginning for better health. What you don’t buy or bring home you can’t eat. There you have your choice, it can become a lower weight shopping basket, or a lower blood pressure or an anti arthritis shopping basket etc. These are
Enjoy Eating Healthy All Day
How can you start eating healthy at home? Anyone who has gone through the weight loss journey will tell you that for the most part, the struggle is with making healthy food choices. Since fast food and processed food are often associated with convenience, it’s hard to let go of old eating (and buying) habits.
Benefits of Healthy Diet
Benefits of healthy diet As said healthy diet constitute a healthy body. Before setting plans for a healthy diet there is a need to understand what a healthy diet is, a balance diet that fulfills the requirements of body for proper functioning; including all the macro nutrients and micro nutrients. It does not always include
Healthy Snack: Turkey Cilantro Roll Up
Eating healthy can sometimes seem like a daunting task. If you’re used to eating out or eating high fat and high carb meals, it may be an adjustment but one that you can make without sacrificing taste. Yes, it takes a little more preparation and thought to put together healthy meals and snacks that TASTE
A Healthy Lifestyle Requires Healthy Cookware – Why?
The foundation for a healthy life is embedded in providing the body healthy food. A well-balanced diet every day is the key to keeping your body functions efficient. While you may be on a wholesome balanced diet, there is one other factor that can steal the nutrients and make your food toxic – your cookware.
Eating Healthy Is the Key to Happiness
The importance of health has been ingrained in our minds since time immemorial; so much so that we are often reminded of the phrase that if health is lost then everything is lost. It is a challenging task to remain hundred percent healthy nowadays thanks to inorganic food, polluted drinking water, smog filled air that
Chocolates – The Healthy Food
Chocolates are such a tasty stuff loved by all the ages. Chocolates are mainly made up of cocoa solids. In a chocolate the basic amount of cocoa used is about 70%. Chocolates have some beneficial qualities to health. Chocolates have the traces of iron, calcium and potassium and vitamin A, B1, C, D and E.
Healthy Eating Tips for You
Eating healthy helps your mind, body and soul. Your body will start appreciating the change in your diet and you will feel much better. Healthy eating is really the healthiest way to lose weight. And, a healthy nutritional low calorie diet and an exercise regimen, helps control disease and aging. You know that the reason
Healthy Lifestyle Through Foods We Eat
Everyone is conscious about their weight and wants to be fit and sexy. Losing weight could be difficult if you are not aware of how to live a healthy lifestyle. We know that foods are the best way to satisfied are craving. There are people who eats a lot to distress their self. Who doesn’t
New School Lunch Program in NJ and Healthy School Lunches Rules
It has been in the public notice and the old school program in NJ was more than a decade-and-a- half old. There was need for review the existing program when the future citizens of nation were stake. The increasing perception of worry over the health of the children all around should be cause of worry
Merits of Having Healthy Food
In the modern era of having everything at the touch of a fingertip, a diet plan has become a trend to reduce weight. Having a healthy diet food is important to have proper and controlled diet. Basically it’s necessary to stick to a particular diet chart when on a diet. Diet chart is a plan
Tempeh – The Super Healthy Probiotics Food
If you are a person who concerns about health, healthy food should be in your family’s daily menu. For your today’s menu, why don’t you cook something delicious with probiotics contents and have many health benefits to reduce cancer risk, good for diabetic diets, lower cholesterol, boost immune system, and even help weight loss program?
How Healthy Food Changed My Life?
Often, developing healthy food habit is not as restrictive or as confusing as several individuals imagine. The first and foremost principle of healthy nutrition is simply eating a wide range of foodstuff. This is more important, since varied foodstuff make varied dietary contributions. Secondly, vegetables, fruits, legumes and grains are necessary, since these foods are
Good Food For Healthy Skin – What to Eat to Look Beautiful
Is it enough to get healthy food for healthy skin? You might still need to use natural skin care products, but you can never go wrong with going for healthy food. Do you want fabulous skin? Everyone does. We all want youthful, vibrant and beautiful skin. Even though each of us has a different skin
The Best School Food Services Brings the Best School Lunch Program in NJ Schools
As catering food service provider you have all the knowledge of these various attributes to be considered while listing a good menu. You have the list of all the cuisines and culinary skills to tweak all kind food to the sensitive palate. As a provider of the basic need of children you have to meet
Quick Tips For Healthy Eating
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Healthy Food Ideas For Weight Loss
More people need to pay attention to the foods they eat. Mainly because the foods we eat are one of the main reasons why a large percentage of the population in most western countries are becoming overweight. Unfortunately many people neglect the fact that they may be overweight and continue with bad food habits until
Why Does Our Body Need Healthy Food?
In the present fast-paced lifestyle, we hardly have any time to devote to prepare extensive healthy meals to nourish ourselves and our families and therefore, we end up consuming highly processed food, which are laden with oil and sugar, and containing such chemical additives that are strictly not intended for human consumption. Eating healthy food
8 Tips For Eating Healthy While Traveling
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Healthy Food Choices – How to Avoid Heart Disease, Diabetes and Obesity
There is now strong evidence that carbohydrates are the baddies in the war against obesity, heart disease and diabetes. So where does this leave the well established theory about saturated fat and how it not only increases our weight but is also responsible for heart disease? In a nutshell research is now telling us to
Healthy Recipes – Are You Ready For Healthy Recipes and Nutrition?
Here you can find another article connected with cooking and eating. As you know I like writing about it. I’m also interested in information about topics and aspects connected with food and eating. I would like to write about nutrition process. Please read this article to the end, if you are interested in this topic.
Is Organic Food Just One of Many Healthy Food Trends?
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Healthy Food for Teenagers
Healthy food is very important for the people belong to all age groups, especially kids and teens. Teenagers can neither called adults nor children. Therefore, it is very important to take the healthy food during your teenage so that later one can take the responsibility of the life. The parents of these teenagers have to
Healthy Food to Eat – 3 Critical Factors
Choosing the right healthy food to eat should encompass many factors. Three important healthy food to eat factors are the following: 1. Does it promote health gain and not weight gain. This may seem obvious, but it can be tricky. People sometimes make pizza and claim it’s a healthy food to eat, by simply tossing
Healthy Food Helps You Burn Fat
Undoubtedly, burning fat is about consuming healthy food. When we eat right, eat healthy food, we do not have to bother about burning fat anymore. Working out at the gym for hours burning calories will not reduce your weight and burn enough of your fat when you do not consider what you consume. It means
Teens and Healthy Food
Adolescence is a time of rapid growth. In fact, teenagers gain almost 50 percent of their adult weight during the teenage years. Yet they are less likely to eat a dietary food. Adolescence know it’s important to eat right, but many teenager don’t understand a basic nutrition. They skip breakfast and always choose to many
Healthy Eating Kids – Getting Your Kids to Eat Healthy Food
It’s important to start healthy eating early. If you leave the mission of getting your kids to eat healthy food too late, it will be more difficult to change the habits they’ve learned. On the other hand, if you’ve always insisted that you have healthy eating kids in your household, then you’ll find the task
Are You Sure The Food You’re Eating Is Healthy?
Finding healthy food is getting harder and harder every day. Even buying foods that are labeled organic doesn’t guarantee that the food inside the package is healthy. For example, the only healthy beef is 100% grass fed, from beginning to end, raised on an organic pasture and taken to slaughter under humane conditions. Beef labeled
Top 5 Healthy Food Guidelines For Pregnant Women
Eating well during pregnancy is important because it impacts the health of the mother and the child. The baby needs an adequate supply of nutrients to develop properly. Not only this, an expectant woman’s body needs energy to cope with the pregnancy symptoms. Thus, the meals should consist of a variety of foods loaded with
Essentials of Healthy Food Pyramid in Daily Living
Balance diet is needed by individuals who want to lose weight. If you create your own program this can be fun. There are many ways in which you can try losing weight or using diet pills for a varied success. Think on a program that you can benefit from and you know you own body
Type 2 Diabetes and Healthy Food Choices – What Are The Dirty Dozen of Fruits and Vegetables?
We often hear if we choose to exercise and eat properly, our pancreas will thank us by functioning better and reduce our chances of developing Type 2 diabetes. Many of you watching your health will have heard of a list of produce referred to as the “dirty dozen.” What is this list and how do
Corporate Wellness Programs: The Importance Of Healthy Eating
Employees spend almost one third of their day working at the company. This means that many of them could be eating two major meals of the day (breakfast and lunch) at the company. At work, employees are working under stress and also feel some exhaustion from time to time, both physically and mentally. Studies show
The Role of Healthy Cookware in Cooking Healthy Food
What makes your food healthy? The presence of life-sustaining nutrients like vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates and so much more… but have you ever considered what role your cookware plays? Studies have found that popular metal and ceramic cookware not only affect the nutritional value of food but also make it toxic. Want to find out
Choosing Healthy Food For Your Dog
A common dilemma among dog owners is choosing the healthiest and most suitable food for their doggies. There are a lot of dog foods sold in the market and dog owners are having a hard time choosing the best for their dog. Dog owners are confused whether they should buy generic food or branded products
Healthy Food Choices: How To Choose Healthy Foods in a Junk-Food World
Healthy food choices can be difficult, especially when we are surrounded by junk food everywhere we go: fast food drive-thrus on every corner, treats at the office, social events with unhealthy foods, and everything in between. But, with a little bit of practice, you can make healthy food choices! This article is going to outline
A Quick Guide to Healthy Food Choices
Nowadays we have access to everything. In fact, we can eat almost anything at any time, but does this mean we are eating better? Let´s look at some facts. In the United States: – Nearly 38% of adults are obese (1) – 9,3% of the population has diabetes (2) – About 29% of adults have
The Various Kinds of Healthy Food Products for Arthritis Patients
People who have arthritis suffer a lot due to inflammation as well as terrible pain and other associated problems. Although there is no specific diet that can cure this type of condition, there are a few foods that you can have to reduce inflammation of your body to a great extent. This article will highlight