The WHO (World Health Organization) recommends no more than 10% of your total daily energy should come from added sugar. Based on a 2,000 calorie daily diet, you should not exceed 12 teaspoons of sugar daily. To gauge how much sugar is in a serving, divide the grams by 4. I.E. – 4 grams of [...]
Archive of posts tagged Diet
DINE OUT & DROP WEIGHT
By Fran Berkoff RD (registered dietitian) – published in Canadian Living May 2010 While most places we dine out at today offer a variety of healthy choices, many restaurant and fast-food meals can still be larger and much higher in calories, fat and salt than those we cook in our own kitchens. Here are 11 [...]
Using the Glycemic Index (GI) to Choose Carbohydrate-Rich Foods
Excerpt taken from 10 Steps to Healthy Eating – author Leslie Beck RD (Leslie Beck is a Canadian registered dietitian, a leading Canadian nutritionist and author of several nutrition books. Leslie also writes a weekly nutrition column in The Globe and Mail and is a regular contributor to CTV’s Canada AM.) To choose carbohydrate foods [...]
Carbohydrates & Glycemic Index – Made Simple
So, before you pick a diet or start eliminating some entire food group from your food, we need to understand carbs and the glycemic index and we need it simple. So here goes …
10 Tips for Changing Your Diet
Excerpt taken from 10 Steps to Healthy Eating – author Leslie Beck RD (Leslie Beck is a Canadian registered dietitian, a leading Canadian nutritionist and author of several nutrition books. Leslie also writes a weekly nutrition column in The Globe and Mail and is a regular contributor to CTV’s Canada AM.) 1. Make a list [...]
Surviving Your Nearest Mall Food Court
Here are some great videos from Canadian Dr. Melissa Hershberg on how to go shopping AND survive the required food break in the Food Court. It’s all about making the best choices. You might want to lose just a few pounds or many. Dieting and weight loss is difficult at the best of times. A [...]
The Curse of the Yo-Yo Dieter
There’s an old saying, everyone knows it, ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, and try again’. Good advice unless the task at hand happens to be going on a diet. When it comes to diets it should read, “Don’t try, don’t try again”. Now don’t get me wrong, if you’re overweight and intent on [...]
10 Tricks to Reduce Meal Portion Sizes
There is a tendency to eat more than you realize. With just a little bit of ingenuity you can decrease your daily food/calorie consumption by reducing your meal portion sizes by a modest amount. Simply by reducing your caloric intake by 100 calories (approximately 33 calories for each of the 3 main meal) a day, [...]
How Much Should We Be Eating?
Society today has become such a Super-Size It place, that we have lost sight of what a real serving size should be. To compare the size of commercially sold foods in our current day Super-Size It world to about 20 years ago, you will find a muffin is now about 5 ounces compared to 1 [...]
6 WAYS TO AVOID UNNECESSARY EATING
Many people have to deal with false hunger, (aka head hunger) on some level, for some it is a battle that they have to wage combat on constantly during the day and it can be even worse during the evenings when we tend to become less active. The following list is things that can be [...]
