Healthy body, happy life!
GBOMBS is an acronym coined by Dr. Joel Fuhrman to help us easily remember what to eat every day to improve our health. It stands for greens, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, and seeds. So if you’re confused about how to have a healthier diet and maintain a healthy weight, then just remember GBOMBS! Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #6 – GBOMBS.”
My fifth tip to having a healthier diet is to accept meal prep. Meal prep includes choosing weekly recipes, making a grocery list and shopping, chopping food, and taking the time to put the ingredients together to cook a great meal. In other words, eating at home and making the food yourself! And that takes planning, or preparation, to achieve. Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #5 – Accept Meal Prep!”
A fourth way to adopt a healthier diet is to make your own homemade snacks. Why? Because we practically live on snacks! Ok, maybe it’s not quite that bad. But statistics do show that adults are now getting nearly one-quarter of their daily calories from snack foods. I’m labeling a “snack” as anything we eat in-between meals along with the treats at the end of meals. Continue reading “Tips for a healthier diet. #4 – Make homemade snacks”
If you read my last post then you know the first thing you need to do for a healthier diet is to start reading food labels. Then you’ll know what’s actually in the processed foods you buy. The next step is to eat foods without labels. In other words, natural foods. These foods don’t need labels because they haven’t been altered in any way. The benefit of eating more natural foods is that it gives your body the necessary nutrients it needs to not just survive but to thrive with a stronger immune system. Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #2 – Eat foods without labels!”
People often decide they want to adopt a healthier diet but have a hard time knowing where to start. Mostly they jump right in trying to change all of their eating habits at once. But this just leads to overwhelm and giving up. So my first piece of advice for achieving a healthier diet is to read food labels. Every one of them! Continue reading “Tips for a Healthier Diet. #1 – Read food labels!”
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started I’ve been bothered by it. But not in the way you might think. What bothers me is that people are so worried about Covid-19 but NOT nearly as worried about the handful of diseases that have been killing most Americans yearly for decades. Continue reading “Worried about Covid-19?”