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Lose Weight and Help Your Heart with Fiber

Posted: May 25 in Healthy Living Blog by

Ensuring that your diet is high in fiber is one of the best strategies to help you lose weight. Fiber helps fill you up without adding extra calories, which is an important factor in weight loss success.

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How Do Snacks Fit Into Your Weight Loss Program?

Posted: May 24 in Healthy Living Blog by

While it may seem that snacking can be the undoing of your weight loss program, regularly eating healthful snacks can, in fact, be the secret to losing weight. Having small, low calorie snacks can tide you over between meals. Aim for about 100 calories in your snack if it is between meals or 200 calories if your snack is replacing a meal. Thinking about low calorie snack options before you get hungry is a great way to plan ahead and beat the temptation of over indulgence when hunger does arrive.

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Feeling Full with Fewer Calories

Posted: May 12 in Healthy Living Blog by

Feeling full and satisfied after eating a meal is important but is often difficult when pursuing a low calorie diet in an attempt to lose weight. One option is to pick foods that have a low energy density. These are foods that are low in calories, so you can eat larger quantities to help you feel full after a meal.

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Health Benefits of Walnuts

Posted: Dec 29 in Healthy Living Blog by

Walnuts deserve a prime spot in the kitchen pantries of healthy eaters and those trying to lose weight. In 2003, the FDA began promoting the health benefits of nuts, specifically for their role in the prevention of heart disease. Walnuts were one of the 7 types of nuts approved, in addition to almonds, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, hazelnuts and some pine nuts.

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5 Tips to Eat Healthier in the New Year

Posted: Dec 21 in Healthy Living Blog by

We all make grand resolutions for the New Year including sleeping more, exercising more, drinking less coffee and so on. Rather than get overwhelmed by a laundry list of resolutions, consider just one: eating better. It’s not as hard as you think, and with the variety of fresh fruits and vegetables available year round in Bakersfield, CA, it’ll be easier than you think!

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What is your “Bad Cholesterol” Level?

Posted: Nov 26 in Healthy Living Blog by

Experts agree that staying healthy means staying informed about your body’s current condition, including knowing about your current cholesterol levels. Because a typical American diet is high in saturated fats, many of us have dangerously high cholesterol levels even though we think we eat a normal diet. Along with high cholesterol, many of us are overweight which increases our risk for obesity related complications such as heart attack and stroke. Learn more about the different types of cholesterols that are measured and what they mean to your health.

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A New Focus on Affordable Nutrition

Posted: Oct 05 in Healthy Living Blog by

When trying to lose weight, budget restraints bog down many Americans. Health food is generally expensive. Fortunately, a new tool called Affordable Nutrition Index (ANI) is being used to determine a nutrition-value-per-dollar score. Sound confusing? It’s not. The tool basically helps determine how to find valuable sources of protein, fiber, iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium, and vitamins A, C and E while taking into account the need to limit saturated fat, sodium and added sugars.

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Dangers Of Refined Sugars

Posted: Sep 28 in Healthy Living Blog by

Although the American Heart Association recommends that women consume 6 teaspoons of sugar per day and men limit their daily intake to just 9 teaspoons, Americans eat an average of more than 22 teaspoons of sugar per day. That’s nearly four times the recommended sugar intake for women. Limiting your sugar intake to recommended amounts [...]

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Tips For Eating Healthy

Posted: Sep 22 in Healthy Living Blog by

Eating a healthy diet—and often losing weight—means avoiding processed foods as much as possible. But many people turn to processed foods because they seem like a fast, convenient option when life gets busy. How can you avoid processed foods and stick to a healthy diet when you’re busy?

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Healthy Foods That Fight Stress

Posted: Jul 24 in Healthy Living Blog by

Do you tend to reach for a cookie or bowl of ice cream when you’re stressed? Stop! Try munching on these healthy snacks to reduce your stress levels without packing on the pounds.

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