Posts Tagged ‘healthy eating’
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
 These days you can’t open a newspaper, pick up a magazine or turn on the TV without being inundated with messages about being healthy. It is great that these messages are coming through the main stream media, because America is bigger and unhealthier than ever before. The good old USofA tops the charts in obesity statistics. According to the Food Standards Agency, between the years 1999-2000 34% of America’s females and 27.7% of men could have been considered obese. The next country on the list, Argentina, wasn’t too far behind, but it still doesn’t change the fact that we here in the US are letting fast food options and lazy schedules outweigh the need for making healthier choices around our eating habits. Making little changes in your diet and eating choices can really make a strong impact on your health, weight and general well-bring. If they seem all too daunting to do at once, just make a small change per week and see how your body feels. You may be pleasantly surprised at the ease of making the little things into big impacts. Read on and be healthy.
Have a Healthy Kitchen
It should come as no surprise that creating healthier eating habits begins right at home in your very own kitchen. One good place to start is a good old fashioned purge. No, not the kind that can lead to an eating disorder, but rather a purge of food in your kitchen. After coming home following an exhausting work day, it is so tempting and easy to reach for fast, yet less healthy food choices. If you make the effort to not keep any tempting food in your kitchen, you are less likely to eat it. Simple? Yes. On the same tack, take time when you have time, maybe on a Saturday or Sunday, to cook for yourself meals to last through the week. That way even if you are dragging your tired self home at 9 pm, you will already have your meal choices made for you.
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
I am a huge health advocate, and I’m also a strong believer in the old saying “Knowledge is power.” I wanted to start this Healthy Living series in this blog to arm readers with as much knowledge as possible, so that you all are able to make educated choices around your health and well being. That way, even if you’re making poor choices (I’m looking at you, smokers), you know all of the full ramifications around those choices. To kick things off, I wanted to wax poetic about one of my favorite subjects: food. More specifically, where the food we Americans eat comes from. I’m hoping that bringing this subject to light will make you think more thoughtfully about the food you’re putting into your body and how you might make better dietary choices.
Happy Cows Come From…
As a vegan, I realize I have a biased perspective on the meat industry here, but really, if you do enough reading and research, the numbers don’t lie. When I ask my meat-eating friends and family how they can still eat meat knowing how animals are raised, treated, slaughtered and so on, they often reply “I just try not to think about it.” I can only shrug, because living in denial is a hard thing to shake people out of. But when you’re biting into a hamburger, do you know where that meat has come from? Meat like beef and poultry are raised in huge feedlots around the country. You can’t take a drive down I-5 in California without seeing cattle literally stacked on top of one another. When you’re biting into a juicy steak, are you confident in the USDA’s inspection of the meat processing plants? Read a book like “Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the US Meat Industry” and you may never look at beef the same way again. Things like cattle not being stunned properly and skinned alive to rotted meat simply being cut away from carcasses and sent on through inspection with flying colors. Graphic and disturbing? Yes. But necessary to know if you’re really interested in knowing about what you’re eating.
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