Here’s a snack-food success story. This one went out of the deep fryer and into the oven. The fat savings is a 9 grams per serving. Now you can enjoy onion rings without worrying about your waist line. For best results, use large, sweet onions.
Ingredients:
2 eggs whites
2 sweet onions, cut crosswise into 1/4″ – thick [...]
Like water, diet sodas are low in calories. But the resemblance ends there. They contain two ingredients that are weight-loss trouble: caffeine and sodium.
Sodium makes you retain water, leaving you feeling bloated and fat. Get on a scale the day after drinking a few diet sodas, and you’ll actually weigh a few pounds more because your [...]
Many fruits and vegetables contain vitamins and other natural substances that can help neutralize free radicals, molecular fragments that can harm body cells. And blocking free radicals is crucial in protecting your body from degenerative diseases and premature aging.
In other words, all those fruits and vegetables that help you maintain your good health while you’re [...]
As many people have found out, losing weight and keeping it off for good is not as easy as it sounds. Yet, it is not impossible, as the subjects of the largest on-going study on people who have lose weight and kept it off have proven. Although 80 percent of the people studied were women, [...]
Answer this simple test to determine whether you are a “food therapist” or someone who instead of coping with painful or difficult emotions, uses food as a medicine.
To determine if, or how much, you are a food therapist, rate each statement on a scale of 1 to 5. A rating of 1 means the statement [...]
Meredith reaches for the last potato chips in the bag and she wonders not only how she could have finished the whole bag but also why she started to eat the chips when she wasn’t even hungry. Does this happen to you? Do you find yourself munching your way through a whole heap of snacks [...]
Why do our bodies resist diets? By defining the word “diet”, it is noun meaning “food and drink regularly provided or consumed,” so why dieters fail at something as easy as that?. The problem is that we have given the word “diet” with a negative meaning which is restriction, can’t eat, bland food, and no [...]
All crash diets begin with a claim as to why the plan works: more protein, less protein, all the bacon you want, all the cabbage you want, more fruit, no fruit, only fruit before noon – whatever. But the real secret behind all these diets is not the special combinations of foods or the magical [...]
Yes According to Dr. Lendon Smith (author of several books about diet), exercise is the only diet that works. It is more effective than diet because sustained physical activity eventually increases the amount of muscle tissue, which alter your body chemistry and speeds up your metabolism so that you burn calories more efficiently even while [...]
The following ideas will help you enhance the flavor of a variety of foods without using salt. After trying these techniques, you’ll agree that the best things in life are still salt free.
To remove oils and salty liquids, drain canned salmon, tuna, or sardines. Then add water to the can and drain again to rinse.
Toast [...]
