 Meet your guide to healthy eating
9 Weeks to Weight Loss leads you through the shopping, planning and preparation of tasty and quick-to-the-table meals. Home-cooked. Designed to help you lose weight gradually and painlessly.
This is a four-ebook set, including: Nutrition Basics; Meal Plans, Recipes & Shopping Lists, Guide to Fitness & Exercise, and the Workbook.
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Nutritious cooking is the way to keep yourself – and your family – healthy
- Healthy Recipes
Healthy, low-fat recipes to help you reach your weight loss goals. You may also add your own healthy recipes.
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Learn about nutrition and how it affects your body.
Nutrition & Weight Loss
- Nutrition
Good nutrition is critical to a healthy lifestyle, yet there is so much information out there, most people do not have a clear understanding as to what they should and should not be eating. This article will simplify things.
- Nutritious Cooking Guidelines
Here are a few guidelines to follow for nutritious cooking
- Get a Good Start
If you want to cook nutritious meals, but you don't want to spend long hours in the kitchen, and if you'd like to stop going to the "drive by fast food" on your way home to work, planning is your answer.
- Kids Nutrition and Exercise
If you eat healthy meals, your children will probably follow the same example when they become adults and go out on their own. If they need a little "boost" to start eating nutritious foods, here are a few
- Preventing Cancer
About one third of all cancer deaths are related to diet. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) dietary choices, together with exercise and a healthy weight, could prevent 3 to 4 million cancer cases worldwide each year.
- Is Your Diet Putting Your Health at Risk
Are you feeling tired, stressed and apathetic? Did you know these are all common signs of a diet lacking nutritional value? If you are dieting, ill or eating a fast-food diet, you should you be concerned that you and your family are getting proper nutrition from your food.
- Positive Attitude
Changing your eating habits can be difficult. Just telling yourself that you're going to "do better" may not be enough. Here are some ways that will make it possible.
- Drink Your Water
It's our body's vital fuel, a health drink from mother nature. It's calorie-free, inexpensive and easily obtained. Yet few people follow the old fashioned advice to drink eight glasses of water a day.
- Food Facts for Healthy Eating
The most important thing is to make fat less than 25 percent of your total calories for the day. And saturated fats should be less than 7 percent.
- High Protein Diet
The body requires six basic nutrients to function efficiently. Proteins, carbohydrates, lipids (fats), minerals, vitamins and water.
- Putting a Stop to Food Cravings
Most of us are "regular" people. We don't eat the perfect diet all the time and have our struggles with food, same as everyone else. But having an awareness of this fact and knowing a little bit about our health and food nutrition can help when it comes to making wise decisions.
- Healing Foods
Natural foods, like vegetables and fruits, which we eat every day have a healing power besides their great taste. It is recommended by doctors and specialists that we eat five to seven servings of fruits and vegetables every day, but how many of us actually do this?
- Great Health Benefits of Seafood
Seafood contains essential oils that are an important part of your diet. Oils provide the source of energy we need and they are also great flavor enhancers.
- Nutrition Facts
Good nutrition is critical to a healthy lifestyle, yet there is so much information out there, most people do not have a clear understanding as to what they should and should not be eating.
- What are antioxidants
Everyone has heard the news about antioxidants and their importance to good health and proper nutrition. It seems the more scientists learn about antioxidants, the more their value and potential increases.
- Eat Veggies for a Healthier You
The new food guidelines issued by the United States government recommend that all Americans eat between five and nine servings of fruits and vegetables each and every day. When you first hear that number, it may seem like a lot, but it is actually much easier than you think to fit that many servings of fruits and vegetables into your daily diet.
- Meal Plans
- Meal Planning
Do you wait until one hour before dinner to think, "what am I going to cook?"
- Healthy Weight Loss
- Choosing a Weight Loss Program
Commercial weight loss programs differ in approach and expense. Some programs may differ greatly from another, in both ease of use and cost. You will want to investigate thoroughly before choosing to prevent costly mistakes.
- How to Lose Weight
Okay, I can't really tell you how to lose weight. I can only give you some ideas. You need to take it from there.
- Its Not Always the Pounds
Almost every bathroom has a scale. That one piece of equipment seems to have the power to make us smile and jump for joy or send us plummeting into the depths of despair.
- Do You Really Need to Lose Weight
- Training Your Appetite Triggers
Have you heard the jokes that just looking at cake makes you fat? Well, that really is true for some people.
- Body Mass Index
Body Mass Index (BMI) is widely used to as a tool to determine an individual's optimum body weight. It is essentially the relationship between a person's weight and height. The simple formula used to calculate it is...
Exercise & Fitness
- Too Many Excuses
You know you should be exercising - so why don't you? Well, there are many excuses that people may use...other than the one that "I just don't want to!"
- Fun Fitness Tips
Getting and staying in shape doesn’t have to be dull and boring! Try some of these fun fitness activities to make your workout time more enjoyable.
- Exercise
Regular exercise can improve your self-esteem and reduce the effects of stress.
- Fitness Exercises that can be Performed in 10 Minutes or Less
Most people understand that exercise is important for their overall health and well-being. However, many complain that they just don’t have enough time in their schedule for exercise.
- Dietary Supplements
- Sport Fuel Is It Necessary
- Vitamins
Choosing a good vitamin supplement can be a frustrating ordeal. There are 1000's of supplements to choose from - some are good, but many are total rip-offs.
- Vitamin Partnerships
Vitamins are an essential part of the function and health of the body. While many vitamins serve individual purposes, the more common way for vitamins to function is as cofactors to, or in partnership with, other vitamins, minerals, nutrients or other substances, such as enzymes.
- Gastric Bypass Surgery
With the number of people suffering from obesity rising so rapidly in America it was only a matter of time before the miracle cure for those who were morbidly obese. Is it all really as simple as stapling your stomach?
- Diet Scams
Have you ever received those tempting ads that seem to arrive regularly in the post - seductive brochures describing diet pills, patches and potions promising miracles? They show you "proof". They have the endorsements by medical and scientific "experts."
- Food Safety
You've had that feeling when you've been out to eat at a new restaurant - that queasy, unsettled stomach.
- 25 Tips for Dining Out
- Nutrition and Weight Loss Library
Free ebooks on nutrition, weight loss and fitness. Receive even more when you subscribe to Nutritious Cooking News.
- Nutrition Fitness and Exercise
Have you ever seen those people on television with lean bodies and wondered how they keep in shape? If you listen to the many reports that tell us how to stay fit and lean, yet you are only hearing what the reports are telling you, then you are missing the real secret to staying fit and lean.
- Fats and Cholesterol
Our body has ingredients that make us a whole, and those ingredients factor into health, fitness, diet and exercise. Over consuming unhealthy substances, such as cholesterol should be avoided since it will help prevent strokes, disease and heart attacks.
- How Fats Destroy Your Arteries
- Do Seniors Need Multi-Vitamins
Some people are under the impression that multi-vitamins aren't really beneficial - especially for seniors. But, most people don't eat the balanced diet that they should. Seniors, especially if they live alone, don't usually eat anywhere near the diet that they should.
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