What's New in Healthy Eating?
This section provides you with up-to-date news and commentaries about healthy eating guidelines, along with yummy new recipes and tips for eating healthy.
Enameled Cast Iron Cookware:
Lodge, Emeril, Le Creuset and Staub Compared
Plain cast iron is a healthy choice for cooking, but enameled cast iron cookware comes with some added benefits. There is nothing like it for cooking acidic foods, and enameled cast iron is simply beautiful to look at! We compare some of the most popular brands so you can decide which is best for you.
Cashews May Help Treat Diabetes
A new study published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research indicates cashew seed extract may play an important role in both preventing and treating type 2 diabetes.
The Benefits of Organic Grass Fed Beef
Research shows that grass fed organic beef has greater nutritional value than its grain fed counterparts. In addition, it is lower in saturated fat and cholesterol, and the fats it does contain are healthier for you.
Eating to Lose Weight? Some Healthy Eating Tips
Just changing your environment can help make eating less a lot easier. A new study conducted by researchers at Cornell University found that changing the environment surrounding food helped people to eat less.
Fighting an Addiction to Sugar
Patience and perseverence win out: I think I'm starting to make progress in overcoming my addiction to sugar.
The Low Glycemic Food List and Index Chart for Low Glycemic Diets
A low glycemic food list featuring the best foods for low glycemic diets. Our glycemic index chart shows how foods rank in relation to how they affect blood sugar, along with a sample meal plan.
Low Glycemic Recipes: Tasty Meals for Low Glycemic Diets
Low glycemic recipes that will delight your tastebuds while keeping your blood sugar steady.
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Roast Vegetable Pizza
This recipe is adapted from The Complete Tassajara Cookbook by Edward Espe Brown. Ingredients For the base: 4 oz (1/2 cup) wholemeal bread flour 4 oz
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Low Glycemic Foods: Why Low Glycemic Diets are Better
How low glycemic foods impact your blood sugar levels and why low glycemic diets may help prevent obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
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Lose Weight by Eating Hot Peppers?
Bring on the jalapeņos! This morning I was greeted by the cheery news that my long-time addiction to hot chile peppers may be good for my waistline.
The Best Stainless Steel Cookware: Advice and Comparisons
We compare the best stainless steel cookware and offer helpful advice on finding healthy gourmet cookware from All-Clad, Cuisinart, Caphalon cookware and others.
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Healthy Low Calorie Recipes
Healthy low calorie recipes featuring nutritious, low calorie foods that are still packed with flavor and which will easily satisfy your hunger.
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Muffins so good they should be illegal!
Eating healthy doesn't have to mean extra work or so-so taste!
Healthy Fast Recipes: Healthy Food in 20 Minutes or Less
A collection of healthy fast recipes for when you don't have a lot of time but still want to eat healthy.
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Raw Prejudice
Overcoming my prejudice against the raw food movement and finding some awesome guacamole in the process.
Healthy Appetizer Recipes - For Parties or for You!
These healthy appetizer recipes are a tasty beginning for any party or a nutritious snack to munch on before dinner.
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How Vegetables and Fruits affect Cancer and Heart Disease
How articles can misrepresent the importance of fruits and vegetables in a healthy diet.
Healthy Eating Plans: Healthy Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Free healthy eating plans and tips on meal planning for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, including healthy snacks.
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The Benefits of Organic Food: Why Organic Food is Better
We examine the important benefits of organic food and explain why organic food is better than food that is conventionally grown.
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Researching the Benefits of Organic Foods
Writing the article on the benefits of organic foods was much harder than I expected.
The Food Revolution Starts Now!
All I can say about “Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" is ... it's about time! The standard American diet filled with processed and fried food, tons of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and huge amounts of sodium is leading us to an early death.
The Challenge of Healthy Eating
Trying to eat healthy seems particularly difficult when you shop at your local supermarket.
The Dangers of Microwave Popcorn
I just love popcorn! And there's nothing quite like watching the latest episode of “Lost" while curled up on the couch with my sweetie and a big bowl of popcorn. Until recently we had been making microwave popcorn because we figured it was quick and easy. Unfortunately, it turns out that our yummy treat may have been hazardous to our health!
Cast Iron Seasoning and Care
Instructions and tips for cast iron seasoning, the care of cast iron cookware, and how to cook with and clean cast iron.
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Castiron Cookware: A Buyer's Guide
Explaining which is the best castiron cookware for your needs, based on your budget and what you cook most.
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So Long Aunt Jemima!
I'm ready to make another switch from something unhealthy to something healthy. This one only took 43 years...
Ever since I was a child I've just loved Aunt Jemima pancakes, waffles, and syrup. My father tried in vain to convert me to homemade pancakes but they never were as tasty to me. Even in Spain, I paid 9 euros (that's around $12) for a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup, and I had friends send me the mix from home!
I admit I still love them both, but two things have finally changed my mind.
1. Finally finding a good homemade recipe for pancakes that I love (see whole wheat blueberry pancakes)
2. Becoming convinced that all sugar is NOT the same, as some articles claim, and that high fructose corn syrup (Aunt Jemima syrup in a nutshell), really is bad, bad, bad for your body.
Took me long enough, right? We here at Natural Health Guide are human. We do indulge in processed foods from time to time, because they just plain taste good and like many people we love the convenience and taste. But little by little, we're switching - when we find something good enough to switch to. We're not into suffering for our health. I like pure maple syrup well enough, I've got a good recipe for pancakes and waffles, so I hereby swear off Aunt Jemima for good. (Unless someone else serves it to me, in which case I won't ruin everyone's breakfast by being all holier-than-thou :-).
Thanks for the memories, Aunt J!
Juliette
The Fast Food Diet: Is it possible to lose weight by eating fast food?
The Fast Food Diet is one of the latest diet crazes, but is it healthy?
Healthy Cookware: What is the Best Cookware?
Learn which is the best healthy cookware to use and why aluminum and non-stick cookware are hazardous to your health!
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When I First Met Laurel Avery...
When I first met Laurel Avery (the owner of this website) 3 years ago, I saw myself as a perfectly “normal” eater. Perhaps like many of you, I didn't go overboard either on the healthy side, such as watching every little thing I ate or eating strictly vegetarian, nor did I indulge in “bad” things like fried foods or McDonalds (except for the occasional slip). At the supermarket, I bought what most people bought: lowfat milk, fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, bread, margarine, meats, fish, cheeses, cereal, snacks, coffee, a few frozen dinners for the occasional night off cooking. Regular stuff, not too healthy not too bad. Right?
When I started to have some health problems, the first thing the doctor had me look at was my diet. I thought he was being rather silly and didn't pay too much attention. My blood test results showed various problems, but I couldn't imagine they were the result of my diet, as reasonably healthy as I was compared to so many people. As Laurel and I spent more time together, she started mentioning some things that, at first, I paid little attention to. “How about butter instead of margarine,” she suggested one day. “Butter is actually way better for you than margarine.” (No way, I thought). On another day: “Let's cook with my cast iron cookware instead of your non-stick pans, it's healthier.” (I imagined hours of scrubbing in my future). When she learned I hated peas, she said, “I bet you won't hate locally grown, garden fresh peas,” (oh yes I will). However over time, I tried some of her suggestions, and I found her choices were both tasty and appealing. So I started doing some research myself.
The woman is smart.
There's science to back up her claims. What's more, after a year of doing things like switching from margarine to butter, low fat milk to whole fat milk, ordering local organic fruits, veggies, and meats, revising my cooking techniques and nearly eliminating processed foods from my kitchen, not only did my health problems diminish, my blood test results did a turnaround. Particularly my cholesterol levels. That's right, even with butter and red meat in my diet (and lots of organic fruits and veggies), my cholesterol totally changed for the better, with my HDLs (the good cholesterol) nice and high, and the LDLs nice and low. The bottom line: I was eating delicious, rich food, I didn't gain weight, and I did feel better! Amazing.
The process has been gradual, and I know a lot of these suggestions run counter to what we've always thought. I am still in the process of learning to eat healthy, in fact. I only had those garden fresh peas for the first time a few weeks ago - heavenly!
I've learned to listen to Laurel and I consider her my personal Natural Health Guide, and I hope you will too. I'll share my continuing adventures in healthy eating here with you.
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