Healthy Snack Ideas

This goes out to my friend Bonnie, who just let me know that she is pregnant with baby number two. Her first child is seven, so it’s been awhile since she’s been preggers. She battled and worked hard to lose 100 lbs. after her first baby, so she is concerned about weight gain during his [...]

Low glycemic index recipes use foods–specifically carbohydrates–that produce small fluctuations in blood glucose levels. It’s the wide fluctuations caused by eating large quantities of foods that are high in simple carbohydrates, like those found in white sugar, that can lead to adult onset, or type II diabetes. A few years back, carbohydrates developed a bad [...]

I have to confess that I, the author and host of a healthy snack blog, have been buying store bought granola bars. I love to cook and bake, but it’s been crazy busy lately, so I haven’t made granola bars in months. This morning, while standing in the produce aisle at Safeway trying to choose [...]

Eating healthier is always something that can be improved upon. For many people, selecting a healthier meal plan is almost never any trouble with the exception of snacks. Anyone can cut down on excessively fatty foods, replace bad starches with good starches, etc. However, it is a little more difficult to do the same thing [...]

Please welcome guest blogger, Chris, from the http://www.howtoloseweighthealthy.com blog. Many people have the misconception that to lose weight you need to completely cut down on snacks. This is wrong and misleading because not all snacks are harmful to your weight loss efforts and health. There are various snacks that are healthy, tasty and can help [...]

Please welcome guest blogger, A.J. Wilcox from http://www.orangesoda.com Back in 2008, I found myself preparing for a cruise that my wife’s family was sponsoring. Upon reading about a ropes course that featured a weight limit that I was over, I started a diet. Up to this point, I had been running 2 miles per day, [...]

I read Dr. Andrew Weil’s classic, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power 8 Weeks to Optimum Health book over the weekend, and I found it to be a clear, practical approach to making simple, incremental healthy lifestyle changes that will allow the body’s [...]

Please come and become a ‘fan’ of the healthy snack blog on Facebook. I just finished setting up the page and it’s looking quite bare at first. I am cooking up a contest to create a bit of an incentive, so toss out any ideas you can think of that I can use to entice [...]

The quality of the foods that we eat can largely determine the state of our health, vitality and longevity. While we rely on food as the fuel to keep our bodies going throughout the day, not all foods provide the best quality energy and nutrition. When you eat a better diet filled with these power [...]

I found this free eBook called, “Menu Planning: How to plan menus for a whole month and enjoy it.” When you plan your menus in advance you not only save time, but you also save money. You also avoid the common problem of wondering what the heck to cook for dinner tonight. When you sign [...]