How to Eat Healthy Using Simple Healthy Eating Math

Eating healthy is not complicated. It doesn’t have to be hard.

Many of us overcomplicate it and make this WAY harder than it has to be. This makes it easy to get frustrated, throw up your hands and say “screw it!”, and go back to eating fried pooptaters from Applebee’s.

So today, we’re going to break down Healthy Eating Math, in the simplest way possible.

There are seven (7) days in a week. Let’s assume you eat three (3) meals per day (yes, I know, we sometimes eat snacks and some days we eat 4 meals but other days we only manage 2, whatever, I’m keeping the math easy).

7×3 = 21. 21 meals per week.

You have 21 opportunities to eat healthy. Continue reading “How to Eat Healthy Using Simple Healthy Eating Math”

Fructose Malabsorption: When Fruits and Vegetables Aren’t Healthy

“Pregnant belly.” That was the most accurate way I could describe how my stomach used to look after eating. No more than a couple of hours after a meal, my abdomen would swell to more than twice its normal size, and the pain in my belly was intense. It often lasted for days, and despite all of my best efforts at tracking my diet I was unable to identify any one food trigger.

In fact, the foods I was eating seemed to have completely unpredictable effects. I could eat an apple and some whole grain cereal with milk for breakfast one day and have little to no trouble, and the next day the same foods would trigger the pain and bloating in full force. The only common denominator I could identify was food itself.

The less I ate, the better I felt, and so I started eating as little as possible in an effort at pain management. I often avoided social situations because of the unpredictability and the potential pressure to eat, and I was losing weight. Fast. At 5’5″ I went from 130 pounds to less than 110 in a relatively short time. It was clear to me that this was not a sustainable lifestyle. The rapid weight loss, combined with a trip to the emergency room one night with the worst pain I had experienced yet, led me to seek the help of GI specialist, Dr. Martin Hahn. Continue reading “Fructose Malabsorption: When Fruits and Vegetables Aren’t Healthy”

Healthy Body and Healthy Mind Lead to Good Life

A healthy life is important to lead a good life. Our health is like a wall pre-requisite to draw a picture. We are the architect of our own health. Either we prevent being unhealthy or cure the damage already done. Physical fitness is very vital. Fitness is a relative term. A sprinter should have a different degree of fitness as compared to a music teacher. There are many more dimensions one can bring to define fitness. Depending upon the required level of fitness, one should take appropriate steps.

More than five billion people live in this world. The body constitution of each one of us is different. The calories needed for every individual is different. There is no one common prescription for everyone in this world. Let us take few examples. The energy level needed for a professional designer is different from a taxi driver. To prescribe a labourer to grab a cereal bar for breakfast is ridiculous. My dad’s friend, a chain smoker died at the age of 83! Believe me, I observed him leading a healthy life. I am not recommending you to smoke to live a healthy life. I try to drive home the point that you should not get carried away by exciting information that is available around you and go overboard to apply in your daily life also. That is dangerous to a healthy life. Continue reading “Healthy Body and Healthy Mind Lead to Good Life”

Eating Healthy Is a Must for Every Serious Entrepreneur

Healthy eating is all about balanced and moderate eating, consisting of healthy meals at least three times per day.

Healthy eaters eat many different types of foods, not limiting themselves to one specific food type or food group.

Eating healthy requires quite a bit of leeway. You might eat too much or not enough; consume foods that are sometimes more or less nutritious. However, you should always fuel your body and your brain regularly with enough food to keep both your mind and body strong and alert.

A healthy eater is a good problem solver. Healthy eaters have learned to take care of themselves and their eating with sound judgment and making wise decisions. Healthy eaters are always aware of what they eat, and know the effect that it will have on their bodies.

When someone is unable to take control of their eating, they are also likely to get out of control with other aspects of life as well. They could end up spending too much, talking too much, even going to bed later and later. Continue reading “Eating Healthy Is a Must for Every Serious Entrepreneur”

How to Lose 10 Pounds in a Week – 8 Proven Tips That Helped Me to Lose 10 Pounds in One Week

I desperately needed to lose weight for my wedding. I have lost 13 pounds on the first week, and 10 pounds on the second. This is quite a short time for losing weight, and not very healthy, I know. However, this quick weight loss success was a kick-start for my weight loss journey, and it motivated me to keep losing weight, following natural and healthy methods later. I am going to share every single step I followed on the second week, that helped me to lose 10 pounds in 7 days.

Please keep in mind that extremely fast weight loss is never healthy.

Here are the steps I followed after the first 7 days, to lose 10 pounds in a week:

1) First, I had a day of detox – to cleanse my body and lose weight even faster. I prepared a drink of lemon juice, ginger and honey mixed with water, and drank this detox drink during the day. Whenever hungry, I just drank it. I felt good, as I normally do, no cramps, no lack of energy, nothing. This was not hard at all, and I am sure it boosted my weight loss results. I know some people do the whole week of detox, but this is not for me. Continue reading “How to Lose 10 Pounds in a Week – 8 Proven Tips That Helped Me to Lose 10 Pounds in One Week”

Healthy Cookware 101: Do We Know Everything About Cookware? Think Again

What might we not know about cookware, right? They’re pots and pans we use every day… That’s where we go wrong. Sometimes the most important things are right in front of us and we still choose to ignore their effect on our lives — cookware is one of those things. In order to cook healthy food, choosing the right cookware is as important as choosing the right ingredients. The current scenario in the market makes it difficult to make the right choice as the manufacturers are more profit-centric than ever and they sell whatever can earn them maximum profit.

You may be choosing the right ingredients that are full of nutrients and are healthy, but by choosing the wrong cookware, you are not only depleting those nutrients but are also making your food toxic. Research shows that all metals are reactive (this is their innate property) and food contains nutrients that are in the form of oxygen, hydrogen halogens, acids, and bases. They are reactive to metal ions that conventional metal/ceramic cookware leach while cooking. Don’t believe me, do a simple alkaline baking soda test at home, this is an eye-opener:

Alkaline Baking Soda Test for Checking Toxicity of Cookware Continue reading “Healthy Cookware 101: Do We Know Everything About Cookware? Think Again”

Healthy Diet Amidst COVID 19

Maintaining a healthy diet remains an important part of boosting your immunity. While there are no specific foods that can help protect you from the pandemic COVID 19, a nutritious diet can boost your immune system and combat the symptoms.

Let me remind you that a healthy diet is not about strict restrictions from food, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. It’s not about leaving you starving; rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and boosting your immune system.

Healthy eating is very simple. Though easier said than done; what’s important is your overall dietary pattern. In fact, a healthy diet is replacing processed food with real food whenever possible. Continue reading “Healthy Diet Amidst COVID 19”

How to Stay Healthy Longer

I am promoting healthy living by encouraging everyone to get up close and personal with the food that you eat, have fun getting physical and socialize. Healthy living consist of the steps and strategies one puts in place to achieve optimum health. My steps include; maintaining a spiritual relationship, eating to live and not living to eat, staying physical by gardening, swimming and walking, stimulating my brain by reading and teaching and socializing with neighbors, church members, clubs memberships, cultivating healthy relationships and enjoying life.

Eat food that is grown organically, it is better for your overall health to grow your own food and eat fresh. However, whether you grow it, purchase it from an Eco Farmer or organic store; at a minimum, once per day, eat a fruit, vegetable or herb that was grown free of chemicals.

Grow a garden, whether it is one vegetable, fruit or herb, in a container on your window, on your balcony, on the porch, or in your pristine city backyard. It is not easy in the city to grow a garden, but it is possible. It requires at least 1 hr per day to take care of a small garden that produces food for a family of four (4). I have learned, from experience, some basic steps to grow a successful backyard garden, in the city. Continue reading “How to Stay Healthy Longer”

Noticing and Acknowledging Your Emotions Empowers Change

After eating naturally for 20 years I now know that I used to use food to control my emotions. I was completely unable to cope with a lot of things that had happened in my life. So instead of acknowledging them and allowing myself to feel loss, sadness, and grief I ate instead.

This meant I didn’t have to feel because that was too hard and completely overwhelming. I was able to control my feelings by using food. To be honest I probably lived for 20 years of my life in a fog, doing what I needed to get through the day, but not actually living or feeling.

When I was diagnosed with depression and bulimia in 1996 I was completely blown away. I’d more or less worked out that I was suffering from depression as most days I didn’t want to get out of bed. But the fact that I had Bulimia was a real eye opener. That’s because I never made myself sick, what I did was exercise excessively instead. Eventually I learnt that this was simply another form of purging. It was also another form of control. I would eat very little and only “healthy” food, exercise at least once if not twice every day and then binge in the evenings. It was a very negative cycle of dieting, exercising and bingeing. Continue reading “Noticing and Acknowledging Your Emotions Empowers Change”

Easy to Prepare Deliciously Healthy Snacks for Children!

As mothers, you are always struggling to give healthy food to your child, who is lured by all the junk food advertised on the TV, or in the form of pamphlets. The ultimate challenge is marrying the health and taste together to give a union that spells a win-win situation for both moms and kids.

Did I touch a raw nerve there?

I guess I did!

But worry not moms, as I have some good news for you!

Did that get your attention? Yes, well, then read on!

Moms all over the world face one dilemma – what to feed their growing child? And every day in the kitchen becomes a battle for her where she has to bring both taste and nutrition together in one dish. Continue reading “Easy to Prepare Deliciously Healthy Snacks for Children!”