How Much Sugar Really Is in Food?

Good article from Gizmodo Sugar is sweet, sugar is delicious, sugar is lovely but sugar can be so terribly bad for you. How much sugar is in foods and drinks you love? Like a soda or orange juice or cereal or even baked beans? Sugar is everywhere! That white cocaine powder adds up. BuzzFeed made…

Healthiest restaurant food I’ve ever had

While searching for vegetarian food during my travels in Oregon, I found a great vegetarian restaurant in Bend called Cafe Yumm located in the Old Mill District. Their entire menu is all about healthy eating and they have a very good variety and selection of good for you foods. I tried grilled tempah for the…

Light Lunch

Here’s a photo of what I call a light lunch. Tuna (not tuna salad) half sandwich with side salad and vinegarett dressing, less then 400 calories.

Eating healthy when dining out

After the start of the new year I really started paying attention to menus and food choices and found it is possible to eat healthy when dining out. It’s all a matter of making the right healthy choices. Many restaurants now offer healthy selections somewhere on their menus, you just need to look for them…

Veggie Burger

Homemade Veggie Burger with sauteed mushrooms, onions and spinach

Healthy Eating

This is going to be a new section in the food blog about healthy eating – it’s about time right? I’ll be posting photos of healthy food along with recipes and information about healthy eating, gotta have some good healthy food, the more the better, I know I’m working on it, hopefully some of the…

How much protein do you really need?

By Sarah B. Weir and Lori Bongiorno Posted Mon Aug 8, 2011 2:04pm PDT Guess how much protein is in a juicy, 8-ounce cheeseburger washed down with a milkshake? This single meal contains two to three times as much as most people need per day. It’s no great surprise that Americans chow down on a lot…

When to drink Water

We all need water, but did you know there is a correct time to Drink Water ? I knew you needed certain amounts of water to flush the toxins out of your body, but this was news to me. From A Cardiac Specialist! Drinking water at certain time maximizes it’s effectiveness on the body: 2…