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More Sleep May Cut Kids’ Risk of Obesity
Youngsters who do not get enough sleep on a regular basis are more likely to be overweight, a new study has found.
Conversely, when children got more shut-eye, they had a reduction in body mass index (BMI) and a significant drop in their risk of being overweight, the researchers found. The investigators also found lower BMIs resulted from differences in fat mass (not any effect on fat-free mass, such...
Smart shopping tips for healthy eating
Any healthy eating plan begins at the grocery store. Learning to make smart choices when shopping for food is the key to the success of any healthy diet plan. Learning to recognize the healthiest, freshest foods is a skill every grocery shopper must learn.
Of course, the logical place to start the healthy shopping trip to the grocery store is at the produce section. Most large modern supermarkets...
Buying healthy foods at the grocery store
The local grocery store is a great place to find healthy, nutritious foods. Unfortunately, it is also a place to find less healthy foods and many junk foods. Learning how to follow a healthy lifestyle means learning how to shop for the healthiest foods, and learning how to avoid temptation.
Learning to read labels is an important skill for any healthy shopper. The information on nutritional labels...
Making smart food choices with practical foods
Everyone who is trying to follow a healthy eating lifestyle understands the need to buy quality, healthy and practical foods. Practical foods are those foods that are not only healthy but whose benefits extend beyond their mere nutritional value. Such foods are easy to use, and useful in a number of different recipes. Healhty, practical foods, when used on a regular basis, form a great part of a...
Creating a healthy fridge
In many ways the refrigerator is the cornerstone of any healthy eating plan. How you stock that fridge can make a huge difference in the success or failure of any healthy eating plan. From what foods it contains, to where they are stored, the refrigerator can be vitally important to healthy eating.
The first step should be to take stock of just what the refrigerator contains. The bachelors among...