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Healthy Snacks for Pregnant Women: Satisfying Pregnancy Munchies

16 July 2010

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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 [...]

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Low Glycemic Index Healthy Snack Recipes

21 June 2010

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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 [...]

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Making Delicious Healthy Snacks At Home

19 April 2010

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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 [...]

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8 Weeks to Optimum Health: My Journey Following Dr. Weil’s Program

2 March 2010

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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 [...]

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Join the Healthy Snack Blog Page on Facebook!

23 October 2009

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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 [...]

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Try These Top Ten Power Packed Healthy Foods

18 October 2009

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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 [...]

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Free Menu Planning eBook

16 October 2009

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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 [...]

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Healthy Snacks for Your Fourth of July Festivities

2 July 2009

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The 4th of July is such a fun holiday. It’s like the kick-off to summer and it’s just a celebration of what it means to be an American. Food, of course, is always a big part of Independence Day celebrations. It seems like every year someone makes the standard American Flag cake with strawberries and [...]

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Red Berry Parfait

12 June 2009

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This is a great, snack for a summer evening when you want something sweet, but not something heavy and rich. You can substitute blueberries or even sliced banana. ½ cup ricotta cheese 1 tablespoon sugar ½ teaspoon vanilla extract ½ tablespoon plain low-fat yogurt 2 cups fresh raspberries or sliced strawberries toasted wheat germ or [...]

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Cumin-Roasted Almonds

12 June 2009

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Jillian Michaels from ‘The Biggest Loser’ is one of my favorite fitness trainers. I am on her email list because she shares lots of great resources for losing weight in a healthy way, eating right, and winning at the ‘inner game’ of weight loss. This recipe was in yesterday’s email, so I’m sharing this with [...]

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