Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating
As the holiday season approaches, numerous parties keep on popping everywhere and making plans to enjoy these parties became our priority. This is the season wherein every table is piled high with calorie-laden temptations and it’s up to us to manage indulging in a healthy way. Maintaining a food diary can help in monitoring your daily consumption. It allows you to adjust your food intake and focus on exercise if needed. Studies show that the average American gains 1 to 2 pounds during the holiday, and these can turn into a permanent baggage if left unmanaged. No one really wants to be on a strict diet during the holidays but there are numerous strategies you can make to enjoy a healthy holiday. Here are several tips to keep your health in check this holiday season:
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If you’re the one organizing the holiday party, make sure to serve healthier food variety. Plan the menu by choosing plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, and seafood. You can use fat-free yogurt and sour cream instead of dips and sauces. Choo...
Okay, first major step is food. Make sure to account for any vegetarians in your group of friends. Boca Burgers or GardenBurgers are good choices for vegan and vegetarian party guests, as both products are made with no animal products. Now, for the real carnivores you're sure to invite, keep your patties at or above a quarter pound size. Even more important than that, however, is the fat content of your patties. Get 98% Fat Free or better patties. Why? We don't care about watching waistlines! However, most of the fat in a patty gets burned off on the grill, shrinking the overall size of the patty. So a 98% Fat Free quarter-pound patty is going to be bigger than a regular quarter-pound patty. I hope that makes sense. Hot dogs are also always a good bet, and Oscar Mayer and Ballpark are perennial favorite brands. Be sure to have plenty of condiments, chips, salad or fruit, and soda for the underage or designated driver guests.
The festive season is ripe with rich food, sugary treats and alcohol – making it tempting to over-indulge. What's more, all of the festivities can seriously mess with your workout routine! The best way to survive the holidays is to eat in moderation, make wise food choices, and continue to exercise – even if you simply take a walk around the park, or do some squats and lunges at home.
Parents always want what is best for their children. They strive to provide for them, teach them, and to watch them grow into healthy, loving individuals. Despite this many parents continue to foster a habit that may prevent the goal of good health, unhealthy eating. Americans today consume too much fat, sugar, and food in general and its shows; rates of obesity and weight/diet related diseases such as diabetes are extremely high. In order to slow and eventually put a stop to this trend parents need to not only be aware and informed, but also need to take action and institute healthy eating habits from the very beginning.
When you go grocery shopping, make sure you don't buy too much. This means going to the grocery store more often, and reducing the amount of food you buy each time. If you live far away from the store or you hate shopping, you should be thoughtful and careful about what you purchase. The influence of special deals, such as “buy two get one free”, may be one of the biggest aspects of why food gets wasted. Getting a good deal on food items feels good but can lead to spending more money and building up on more food than needed. Not shopping hungry will surprisingly also reduce the amount of food wasted. You may be more likely to purchase on impulse based on what sounds good to eat at the time, which can lead to uneaten and wasted food. Another tip is to buy loose produce. This is a great way to buy just the right amount of food, based on a weekly plan, and also cut down on packaging waste. A very helpful and important thing to do is to plan out your meals, and make a detailed shopping list with the ingredients you'll need, and when you're in the store, stick to that list. This way you’ll know exactly what you need to buy and won’t buy excess
A good plan might include: a bagel, topped with peanut butter and sliced apples, an orange and a cup of skim milk for breakfast. For lunch--a sandwich of lean ham, turkey, or beef, low-fat cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts and onions, along with a piece of fresh fruit, graham crackers, and flavored low-fat yogurt. Dinner might be pasta mixed with black beans and low-fat cheese, or a Canadian bacon pizza, fruit salad, skim milk, and pudding for dessert.
A strategy that facilitated within my journey of living a healthier lifestyle was the fact that lent, occurred during the same time as this project. Lent is practiced by Catholics and during this time you are to either give up or improve on something within your life from the time of Ash Wednesday to the day of Easter. This year for lent I chose to give up the foods that are high in starch; this would include, bread, noodles, rice, cereal, and potatoes. Giving these foods up during this time as reduced the amount of times that I ate out because options were so limited and eating something at home was easier. Looking at the graph you can see the documented days that I ate out and when I made a home cooked meal. The occurrence of lent during this project was an unplanned strategy that assisted myself in working towards my goals of living a healthier
The authors start by framing the importance of the school’s environment in creating and maintaining healthy eating behaviors in students, “Schoolteachers can affect students’ eating habits in several ways: through nutrition knowledge, positive role modeling, and avoidance of unhealthy classroom food practices.” This article discussed a study done by four professors of different universities throughout Canada. The purpose of the study was to look at the relationship between future schoolteachers’ knowledge and habits when it comes to eating healthy and classroom food habits. The study included a survey from 103 (out of the 130) prospective teachers completing a Baccalaureate Degree in elementary or secondary education programs. The survey included questions about how the prospective teachers viewed their health, their eating habits, what they thought about school food environment, and their nutritional knowledge. The students who took it were in their final year of the bachelors program. The survey was distributed to the students at the end of a mandatory seminar for seniors in the education program.
Are you thinking of throwing a party with healthy food to serve? Why not try gluten free party food?
Any type of Christian (Western) food is acceptable. However the Wedding Cake is by far the most important and anticipated food.
It is the number New Year’s Resolution every year. They want to know what can they do to lose weight and to lose the weight in the smallest amount of time. However, sometimes individuals do not make appropriate and healthy choice in this area. They try cleansers, fad diets, and food binging in order to achieve a fast result. These choices can lead to an individual gain all the weight back and then some or it can lead to death. The best way to lose and control an individual’s weight is to do it the old fashion way by just exercising. It’s no and’s and but’s about it. You have to exercise!!
But it can‘t be called a holiday if there’s only one good news, right? Well here’s another one to add to your holiday cheer, if you’re trying to lose weight this holiday season (which is the hardest thing to do) or at least trying to watch what you eat, and making sure it’s still healthy, there are a few holiday foods you can mix up in the comforts of your kitchen.
When it comes to food nothing is set in stone about what you need to provide. There are three things that have become essential in planning a menu. Those things are anything fried, sugar, and a ton of butter. Vegetarian recipes are also very popular at these Hindu celebrations. A wedding is the perfect time to show what extravagant food you can make. A wedding feast is usually made with the most expansive dishes and there will be a lot of those dishes.
Winter is a season for us to stay mostly inside the comfort of our homes. At this point, we make use of our talent especially around the kitchen. Yes, it is colder outside in order for us to stay warm we may need to feed ourselves for extra calories. For us to warm our bodies up, nothing is more satisfying on a brisk wintry day than a hearty hot bowl of soup. The idea of your oven compartments and stove top burners being more active in the winter is an idea in keeping with this focus on inner warmth, and we encourage you to think about winter as a time to celebrate the warmth of eating. Here are some adjustments and advantages for healthy winter nutrition.
My freshmen year when I lived in a dorm and all my food was prepared for me, I ate pretty well. I made sure to have a balanced diet and to eat a lot of nutritious foods as opposed to processed foods. However, now that I live in an apartment and am entirely in charge of cooking my own meals, my eating habits aren’t great. I tend to buy a lot of canned or microwavable meals that are quick, easy, and cheap to make. That is what stood out to me most on the days I recorded; how much I eat simply because it’s cheap and convenient. Although I have a lot of room