"Unadulterated" popcorn has to be one of the healthiest snacks we could consume. Here are some of the nutritional facts:
• This whole grain contains over 40 nutrients including all the B complex vitamins, vitamin E, riboflavin and thiamine
• It is high in fibre and contains heart-protecting phytonutrients...
(12) Comments | Posted May 14, 2012 | 3:34 PM
Ontario students in a Brampton high school are fighting the 2011 ban of all junk food available in their cafeteria. They want to bring back chocolate bars, greasy fries, chicken fingers, fatty pizza and all sugar beverages. Their argument is that offering healthy options is fine, but students...
(0) Comments | Posted May 2, 2012 | 10:57 AM
As we enter into warmer weather, we seem to think about fitting into our summer clothes that usually expose our arms, backs, legs and midriffs. Not always a pleasant thought for many of us who have hibernated during the winter months and added on a little extra padding! Salads are...
(4) Comments | Posted April 22, 2012 | 3:39 PM
There's always one gathering or celebration a year when you know you drank just a little too much. Or maybe you combined different alcohols and wake up with your head banging. Alcohol is a diuretic, which means it dehydrates you. Consuming the toxins from alcohol leaves you with those "hangover"...
(4) Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 6:12 PM
There isn't a day that goes by when I don't have the craving for something with chocolate. Yours may be for bread, pasta, ice cream, cheese or something salty. We all have them. As we know, if we indulge excessively in these "guilty pleasures" this can cause weight gain and...
(27) Comments | Posted April 2, 2012 | 11:14 AM
Daily we receive contradicting nutrition advice from the media, our doctors, friends and colleagues. That's because studies are being done consistently, reported, then taken as the word of God. Before you listen to any nutritional advice, be sure the source is valid and the study has been done over a...
(2) Comments | Posted March 19, 2012 | 1:18 PM
When we decide to lose weight, we want to do it as quickly as possible -- even if it means deprivation and eating foods we don't like. That number on the scale is our only focus. But somehow as an intelligent society we just seem to never learn how to...
(13) Comments | Posted March 3, 2012 | 1:57 PM
How often do you walk through your supermarket and read luring food labels that convince you that you're eating healthier with terms such as lower sodium, lower fat, reduced calories, omega-3s, "Lite", organic or natural? And that's only the beginning! Food manufacturers are jumping on the health bandwagon so you...
(0) Comments | Posted February 21, 2012 | 12:48 PM
When we think about extra calories and fat, we never believe that "liquid food" -- the beverages we consume -- can be a hidden culprit in the battle of the bulge, as well as a precursor to chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart and stroke disease and...
(9) Comments | Posted February 12, 2012 | 11:33 PM
It's an honour to be writing my first blog for The Huffington Post. Since food is my life, passion and probably the only thing I talk about, I thought I'd enlighten you about foods we perceive are healthy but actually are not. Naturally when we hear the words fried chicken,...
(10) Comments | Posted May 24, 2012 | 4:00 PM