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Eating healthy doesn’t have to be budget busting as these healthy eating tips show. Everyone is feeling the pinch from the consistently climbing food prices.
- Eliminate Junk food – Create a list and stick to it. Do NOT go grocery shopping with your kids or spouse or you WILL stray to please them. Junk foods provide marginal nutrition for you and the price per unit is often budget busting.
- Drink Water or Juice instead of soft drinks – You can still enjoy milk and your favorite soft drinks on special occasions BUT limit your intake because milk is a very expensive source of vitamins C and D AND soft drinks offer no useful nutrition.We all need Calcium and the Natural Calcium Sources page shows that milk isn’t always the best source of calcium for us.
- Fruits and Vegetables – If possible, grow your own and then either can or freeze what you don’t eat. Growing your own food may not be an option but there are often local growers that let you pick your own for a substantial savings. If this isn’t an option either, buying from local growers or buying in bulk are the next level of savings.
- Tuna Fish – Tuna is a relatively inexpensive source of protein AND it has the omega fatty acids that help feed the brain. The calories in tuna dishes don’t climb until you start adding mayonnaise and all of the other ingredients that are commonly used to make dishes with tuna.
- Fresh Fish - In season and where you can, fresh fish that you catch is a great supplement to your nutritious diet. Extra fish can be frozen for another day.
- Beans - Beans are another great protein source and they are very versatile. You can add beans to other ingredients to make very tasty and healthy meals that are inexpensive, healthy and good. Note: The USDA recommends eating beans at least 4 times per week. If you experience gas after eating beans you should try washing them, covering them with water, bringing the water to a boil, then draining it off and refilling the pot.
- Whole Grain Rice - White rice has been processed and bleached so most of the nutritional value is lost but whole grain rice still has the nutrients and fiber you need.
- Peanut Butter – This isn’t as inexpensive as it used to be but it is still nutritious and popular among many of us. A large jar of peanut butter that is refrigerated may last for weeks.
- Potatoes - This low calorie carbohydrate is good for you and it will help fill you up. Potatoes are often thought of as fattening but they aren’t. They become so when liberal amounts of butter, sour cream, bacon bits and other toppings are piled on the potato.
- Sweet Potatoes – This is a favorite for the holidays that is usually neglected the rest of the year. Like the white potato, the sweet potato is healthy and it tastes good.
Healthy eating is a lifestyle choice and someone on a budget will still find a way to live their chosen lifestyle without feeling deprived. I hope these healthy eating tips have gotten your creative juices flowing.
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If you are like most people I know, you grew up eating 3 meals a day. These meals were often large and you still ended up snacking between meals.
Your body is a living machine and the food you eat is its fuel. Only so much of the food you eat at any given time can be used immediately. The rest of that fuel is stored as fat or passed out of your body as waste. If this is true, then part of EVERY large meal you eat is stored as fat and part of the food passes through you without doing anything more than giving you the pleasure of eating it.
If you divided your 3 large meals into 5 smaller meals, you’d be eating every two or three hours but your body wouldn’t get hungry for a snack and you would waste less energy because your body couldn’t handle the input.
A whole grain cereal for breakfast is nutritious and gives your body fuel it needs. Eat some fruit and cheese or another side 2-3 hours later to add protein and a fruit. Add a complex carbohydrate like a baked potato at midday and maybe a vegetable and protein. For a small meal 2-3 hours later you could add more fruit or a vegetable. The evening meal could be a variety of things with another snack 2-3 hours later.
Depending on your activity level and your exercise routine, you may find you will actually eat more and be getting in better shape just by altering what you eat and when.
Calories are fuel that your body burns, stores as fat or wastes. You determine the quality of the fuel you feed your body, when you feed it and how much you feed it.
Think of your frequent mini meals as a pipeline with quality fuel that stokes your engine when it needs it so fuel isn’t wasted.
You can use these mini meals plus plenty of water and an exercise program as your fat loss plan because you will NOT be hungry. Your body will not go into starvation mode if you don’t start out by reducing your calorie intake by more than 20 percent.
Cut your intake back too drastically and your body thinks it is starving regardless of how much you are eating. Reduce the intake by no more than 20 percent and space the meals out to every 2-3 hours and your body never gets hungry. You may reduce the intake again in 2-3 weeks which is what it will take your metabolism to accept the new food level as the norm.
It is up to you to decide whether you think 3 big meals or several smaller meals spaced every few hours makes more sense.
If you liked this article, I suggest you get Eating For Excellent Health Now! and I Love Exercising Now! to put yourself in the proper mindset for a permanent lifestyle change and Tom Venuto’s Burn Fat Gain Muscle book to learn the proper exercises and eating habits to maximize your control of both your nutrition and weight.
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While it is true that what you eat helps determine your health saying what you eat causes acne is a myth.
Think about the times when acne is most common:
- Baby acne
- Puberty
- Menstrual cycle
- Pregnancy
- Adult acne – often during menopause or when under a lot of stress
The ONLY thing ALL of the above have in common is each and every one of them is a time when the body’s hormones are out of balance.
Your liver cleans and detoxifies your blood but at times of hormone overload it cannot keep up and your body will experience problems you don’t usually have.
A healthy diet that gives your liver and the rest of your body the minerals and vitamins they need to operate at their best will help minimize the affects of the hormonal imbalance but it isn’t realistic to expect no changes when your body is stressed.
I hear some of you men saying: “I don’t have the hormone swings kids and women have.” You DO have hormonal swings. When you engage in active sports that are competitive, your testosterone levels will rise. As you reach a certain stage of life, your testosterone levels will naturally fall.
Some men and women live highly stressed lives which can affect hormone levels and the ability of your liver to handle these hormonal changes will depend on your overall health.
Your acne, pimples, zits or whatever you choose to call them are created when your body cannot cleanse itself of the toxins and excess skin oil that creates a breeding ground that allows them to form.
The cause of acne is NOT food or some of the other myths you’ve heard but it is your hormones.
You can treat your acne with an array of commercial products or home remedies. Not all home remedies work for everyone and some even damage the skin instead of clearing up the acne. You might want to consider a product called acne free in 3 days because it has information that has been successfully used by others.
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