Top 10 Healthy Snacks
Your Health
You don’t have to give up all of your favorite foods or start training for a big race to improve your health. Over time, small changes to your eating, drinking, and physical activity habits may help you control your weight, feel better, and improve your health.
This fact sheet will give you ideas on how to make better food and beverage choices and add physical activity to your life. When you make these changes, you may also become a health champion to help your family, friends, and others in your community do the same.
Weight Management
Each year, millions of people enroll in weight-loss programs. Fewer people may be familiar with medically supervised programs, which include hospital-based programs or individual care from a physician. In addition, many free online diet and exercise programs are now available.
With shelves stacked top to bottom with hundreds of brightly coloured boxes competing for your attention, the supermarket aisle of breakfast cereals can sometimes feel like walking through a minefield.
This Real Simple salad refreshes: Toss 2 cups of watermelon cubes with 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice and ½ teaspoon grated lime zest, then sprinkle with cayenne pepper and 2 teaspoons chopped unsalted roasted pistachios.
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Healthy Nuts
Give boring nuts a healthy boost with Sweetish Nuts from nutritionist Brooke Alpert, which are sugar-free but still manage a natural sweetness from the spices. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yogurt-Dunked Berries
uses a toothpick to dunk individual blueberries one at a time into a container of Greek yogurt; a second toothpick helps push the berry off onto a baking sheet. Freeze for one hour, and store any leftovers in the freezer.
When Rebecca Regnier, of doesthisblogmakeuslookfat is hankering for something savory, she goes for a mini pepper sliced with a little hummus.
Healthy Hummus
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Nutrition Therapy
Medical nutrition therapy may be useful in treating or controlling heart disease, diabetes, AIDS, cancer, kidney disease and many other health related conditions. While often used as part of a palliative care treatment, relatively healthy people may also use this therapy for minor dietary adjustments. Complementary nutrition therapy optimizes nutritional health in order to enhance medical care and treatment. Medical nutrition therapy is not a cure for terminal illness but can improve a patient's quality of life.
Supermarket Tours
With shelves stacked top to bottom with hundreds of brightly coloured boxes competing for your attention, the supermarket aisle of breakfast cereals can sometimes feel like walking through a minefield.
Diabetes
What Can I Eat If I Have Diabetes ?
Your diabetes diet is simply a healthy-eating plan that will help you control your blood sugar. Are you constantly asking yourself, "What can I eat?" It's time to stop worrying! Living with diabetes doesn't have to mean feeling deprived.
Pantry Makeover
Faced with a choice between cooking a healthful meal and ordering out, many weary (or wary) cooks will opt for take-out. But with take-out they can be taking key nutrients out of their diets. If you have your local eateries on speed-dial, you could be under-nourished and overspending. A smart pantry makeover will put nourishing meals and wholesome snacks within your reach.
Pre- and Post-Natal Nutrition
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies can be passed to your baby and will affect everything from immunity to behavior. Prenatal vitamins are a great way to get started but most women need more specific care. Prenatal vitamins are multi vitamins which means that there is a very small amount of each nutrient all in one pill. Most women however are not the same and thus need different levels of each nutrient depending on their body.
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Nutrients and other food components influence the function of the body, protect against disease, restore health, and determine people’s response to changes in the environment. Under certain circumstances and in some individuals, diet can be a serious risk factor for a number of diseases. Common dietary chemicals can act on the human genome, either directly or indirectly, to alter gene expression or structure. The degree to which diet influences the balance between healthy and disease states may depend on an individual’s genetic makeup.
Pediatric Nutrition
Nutrition is an important health concern at any stage of life. Because infants and children have different nutritional needs than adults, We know that nutrition, exercise and the rising rate of childhood obesity are great concerns for parents. Use these tips to teach your family healthy habits for life!
Core a crisp apple (such as Granny Smith or Fuji) and put the wedges in a microwave-safe bowl. Sprinkle with a teaspoon of brown sugar and a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg, then toss to cover
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2 Healthy Chocolate Snacks
Health magazine skewers 1 strawberry, 2 blueberries, 1 piece each kiwi, cantaloupe, pineapple, and then drizzling with 1 teaspoon Hershey’s chocolate syrup for a filling, fruit dessert that quenches a chocolate craving too.
Real Simple’s tasty take on the bagel: Spread half of a small toasted whole grain “flat” bagel with 2 tablespoons fresh ricotta, then top with 1/3 cup sliced strawberries and drizzle with 1 teaspoon honey or agave nectar.
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4 Healthy, Salty Snacks
A half-cup of boiled or steamed shelled young soybeans are rich in protein and antioxidants and are only 100 calories. Splitting the pods open to nibble on the beans helps you eat more mindfully, which can reduce overall calorie
Always have avocado around to add a healthful fat for a filling snack, recommends Annabel Adams from, They're a good source of heart-healthy and belly fat-blasting monounsaturated fat.
5 Healthy, Creamy Snacks
6 Cherry Tomatoes With Goat Cheese
Try this Real Simple treat: Top 5 halved cherry tomatoes with 2 tablespoons fresh goat cheese, then sprinkle with chopped herbs (chives, basil, or parsley).
