Whether you’re a business exec, carpooling mom, up-and-coming entrepreneur or someone in-between, busy lives tend to cut into healthy eating. But eating well doesn’t have to be hard work. Try these healthy fruit smoothie recipes for your next last-minute breakfast, afternoon snack or even dessert.
Read more: 6 healthy fruit smoothie recipes
No need to skimp on nutrition, even when time is short. Treat yourself and your kids to these nutrition-packed snacks recommended by our Cleveland Clinic Canada registered dietitians.
- Mini-pizzas made by topping whole-wheat English muffins with tomato sauce, low-fat cheese and vegetables. Broil the pizzas until the cheese melts.
- Sandwiches made with whole-wheat bread, low-fat cheese and lean meats. They taste even better when cut into fun shapes with cookie cutters.
Read more here: Healthy Snacks on the Go
With record-setting high temperatures settling in across much of Canada last week, it’s hard to ignore the pull of the ’cue. Yes, my cold-weather friends, barbecue season is here. Well, to be fair, it probably never left for the true die-hards (count my husband among them), but from now on we really mean it.
But what to grill? Why meat, of course. Big, manly cuts of meat. Steaks worthy of their own postal code, and burgers that ooze juicy goodness. When the time is right, it’s hard to ignore those animal instincts that call for us to celebrate victory over our prey with fire and fuel (propane counts, right?) — with a cold one in hand, of course.
Read more here: Jennifer Sygo: Barbecue that’s good for you (yes, with the meat)
My husband was first told he had high cholesterol at 30 and since then he’s become acutely conscious of his heart health—particularly which foods are heart-healthy. I thought for sure when I pulled together a list of “surprising” foods that promote heart health, he’d look at me and say, “Duh!” Instead he surprised me by raising his eyebrows and smiling (probably because he could now add more foods to his “good for your heart” list). Find 10 recipes for brownies and more heart-healthy comfort foods here.
Read more here: 6 unexpected heart-healthy snacks
Who doesn’t love a fruit smoothie? How about a healthy one that has a taste that cannot be beat? You can stop your search today because this smoothie recipe has it all.
This healthy fruit smoothie recipe is chopped full of wholesome fruit pieces and the sweet taste of honey. Blend one up today.
Read more here: Healthy Fruit Smoothie Recipe
Have you tried looking for healthy beverages at your local convenience store? Good luck!
These days, unhealthy beverages like sodas and energy drinks dominate store shelves. They tend to be loaded down with sugar. Usually, they are also chock full of empty calories and devoid of actual nutrients.
Read more here: Healthy Drinks and Beverages- My Top Ten Recommendations
Those fresh, delicious summer salads that sustain life in sauna-like weather? They can do a lot more than keep you cool. In fact, five salad veggies turn out to be antioxidant superstars. Toss a handful into any bowl and you’ll instantly up your defenses against everything from wrinkles to heart disease and even help make your RealAge younger. Then season some olive oil and vinegar with a few of the herbs and spices below and you’ll punch up the antioxidant power even more. Health food doesn’t get any easy-breezier!
Read more here: Five veggies that make any salad super-healthy
By Mairlyn Smith, P.H.Ec
Diets don’t work.
Anything that you can go on you can go off.
How many times have you been on a diet? Go ahead take a minute and count them. Then ask yourself this question, “If diets really worked why am I still searching for that magic weight loss plan?”
This year I want all of us, no matter who you are and what your age is, to get off the diet merry-go-round and make the decision to change your eating habits and embrace a new healthier way of living.
Make your New Year’s Resolution or goal to get healthy and you’ll lose weight in the process.
This year I am targeting my peeps – women over forty.
The media is flooded with information for younger women. It’s as if over forty year old females don’t count anymore. Maybe we aren’t quite as cute or have the same taut skin that we used to but baby we still rock.
