Healthy Food
Where to go to find healthy food and how to use it to help you lose weight and/or stay healthy!
If you're one of the many people who still thinks health food consists of dusty cereals, stale-tasting breads and murky, unappetizing juices -- all sold in stores with a strong medicinal smell -- maybe it's time to take another look. Health food is no longer just for tree-huggers who wear funny looking sandals, today's health food appeals to an increasingly health-conscious public.
Publix, Kroger, Piggly Wiggly, Wal-Mart and Bi Lo (just to mention a few) all have a section where you can buy "Healthy Food". But even better, these foods are being mixed with other foods and the educated consumer recognizes it and buys it. If you buy it they will sell it. More and more Health Food stores are becoming grocery stores with healthy food.
You can now find a bounty of health food and organic food at your local grocery store that is considered to be easy on the pocket book. If you can't find these foods just ask a store clerk to help you!
here are some examples of foods that could only be gotten from health food stores just a few years ago and now grace the shelves of such stores as Wal-Mart or Publix.
Dairy:
Hormone free milk
Rice Milk
Soy Milk
Soy Ice Cream
Rice Milk Ice Cream
Soy Yogurt
Cereal: Many Cereals that have replaced refined sugars with healthy fruit juices, organic cane juice and honey, and left behind the chemicals and extra processing. Example of list of ingredients that a cereal should have -
Amazon Frosted Flakes Ingredients: Organic corn meal, organic evaporated cane juice, organic honey, sea salt. there are also gluten free products showing up everywhere. Betty Crocker is launching gluten free cake mix June 2009.
Organic Fresh Vegetables
Many stores now carry organic vegetables. Some have a special section and some put an organic lable on the produce.
Hormone free Beef and chicken
When you buy certified organic meat, poltry and eggs you may pay more but you relly do get more. More consumers are beginning to understand the effect that the food they eat can have on their health and longevity. "Health food" encompasses a wide range of foods, drinks and supplements. These products are often designed to prevent illness and, in some cases, may even cure it.
How Can Health Food Help Me Get In Shape
The statement "You are what you eat" has never been so true. Today People have a problem with the information that they get on what is healthy. Most people try to choose the least of all the evils. If you eat processed food, chemically treated or hormone infused food you will not drop dead there on the spot. But, if you eat this all the time you will not be healthy. If you educate yourself to what is healthy you will lose more weight, you will not be as sickly, and it will help as much as exercise in the type of life style you are able to live. If you eat a better quality food you will have more energy, and have a clearer mind. You cannot exercise if you do not have the energy.
Many people say they cannot afford the healthy alternatives. Brown rice, whole wheat bread, and whole-wheat flour are often the same price. The cereals are all about the same price just read and see if sugar or high fructosecorn syrup is the sweetener or fruit juice, Organic cane juice and/or honey. Give up 30 minutes of TV and spend some extra time reading labels.
Read The Label
Understanding how to read a list of ingredients is an important consideration for health food consumers. A jar of jam should read fruit and sugar. There is no need for artificial color or flavor, preservatives, and names that you can't pronounce. At a time when so many people suffer from allergies and have sensitivities to additives and certain types of foods. Avoid artificial flavors, preservatives, refined sweeteners and additives known to be harmful (artificial sweeteners are on the top of the "no-no" list).
"Health food," "healthy food", "Organic" and "natural food" are used to describe health food. In organic food you would typically find a higher proportion of raw foods, with minimal or no processing.
Don't Let Appetite Triggers Shoot Down Your Diet
Perhaps you associate eating with events like watching television, talking with friends, or reading. Over time, responding to such frequent cues can lead to weight gain. The following behavior changes can help to eliminate eating cues that can sabotage your diet.
Eat your meals in only one room of the house.
Eat each meal at the same time each day.
Don't do anything else while you're eating such as working or watching TV. This is a traditional time to catch up with your family or if you live alone put on some soothing music and relax while you eat.
When you go to parties, focus your attention on the guests, entertainment, surroundings-anything but food and beverages.
Turn down the volume or switch channels during food commercials on television to help you tune out eating cues.
When you fell that hunger pain and you know you just ate....try a glass of water before you get the food - often you just need to be re- hydrated!!!
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