Archive for Category: "Eat This, Not That"

Color War

Color War

Here are some guidelines from the USDA on what the pigment of your produce can provide you nutritionally.  For the five daily servings needed, just mix and match from the color sections.  One serving equals 1 cup raw or 1/2 cup cooked

Meat Markings

Meat Markings

  What the heck do all of these labels mean on the meat?  What are the best ones to eat overall?  These are all questions that we ask ourselves when we see labels such as, “Air-Chilled,” or “Raised Without Antibiotics.”  But what do they all mean and which will taste the best and be the

Eat Organic?

Eat Organic?

If you don’t want to spend all of your money buying organic food, what are the best produce choices to make? The DIRTIEST Fruits! The top six fruits that you should definitely buy organic are: 1)    Peaches- they have the highest pesticide quantity of any fruit or vegetable. 2)    Apples- second most pesticide-ridden fruit 3)   

The Deep Freeze!

The Deep Freeze!

Freezing seasonal food can be a great way to enjoy it during the Winter months. Here are some things you should know about how to freeze your food or what frozen food is best to buy. * Fresher doesn’t always mean healthier!- Sometimes frozen foods can be much cheaper and healthier than fresh! One study

Salad Bar Survival Guide

Salad Bar Survival Guide

Everything looks so fresh and good for you at the salad bar – but it could be hazardous to your waist line and more! * The Dressing- It’s one of the easiest ways to add way too much fat and calories to your salad. Think color. White dressings (ranch, blue cheese, caesar) -very bad. Orange

Fish

Fish

You are hearing from everyone to eat more fish.  But do you know which kind is the healthiest?    *  Wild Alaskan Salmon- EAT THIS!  with 1,253 mg of Omega-35, 18g of Protein, and low in contaminants & Environmentally friendly, this is the fish to buy.   *  Farmed Rainbow Trout is up there too with 838mg

STOP EATING PROCESSED, NONORGANIC RED MEAT!

STOP EATING PROCESSED, NONORGANIC RED MEAT!

Yoga Bean Magazine and Studios just recently showed a screening of the movie “King Corn” at our studio in Pennsylvania. This is a documentary about two graduate students that, after getting samples of their hair broken down into its molecular components and finding out it was mostly made up of corn, decide to rent an