KTK-Nutrition

Who doesn’t make some New Year’s Resolutions?   Most of us make resolutions but unfortunately most of us don’t keep those resolutions.     Forbes Health polled Americans about their 2024 New Year’s Resolutions.   What are the top New Year’s Resolutions for 2024?   Top priority was improving fitness (48%), improving finances was second (38%), improving mental health came in third (36%) and losing weight came in fourth (34%).   But a fifth was improving ones’ diet (32%).   Despite good intentions, many of us fail to keep these resolutions .   Only about 8% keep their resolutions for one month, about 22% last 2 months, and only 13% are going strong at 4 months.      But setting goals for yourself is a good idea.   Some nutritionists got together and came up with some New Year’s Resolutions you should not put on your list.   And they give some guidance of how to set some health goals for the new year that are more likely t...

So many people develop New Year’s Resolutions focusing on giving up things or on losing weight.   Why not focus on adopting some healthier habits in 2022 and some healthier lifestyle changes?   A nutritionist in London, Kate Llewellyn-Waters, has some recommendations on how you can adopt a healthier lifestyle in 2022 .   Many of her suggestions are easy to adopt and I have added some suggestions of my own. Healthy habits for 2022 Protein at every meal – Protein is filling and helps stave off those hunger pains between meals.   What are some high quality protein foods?   All animal foods provide high quality protein.   Focus on lean proteins like chicken breasts.   Chicken and other lean meats, provide not only high-quality protein but also many nutrients like iron, zinc, selenium and many B vitamins.   B vitamins are known as the energy vitamins as they help your body produce the energy needed for all your activities.   A top-rated protei...

Hoping to lose a few pounds 2020 and have you made a New Year’s Resolution to do so?   Everywhere you look there are ads for taking off weight easily.   But we all know there is nothing so easy about it.   Yes, there are diets that one can lose a few pounds pretty quickly but what we really want is to lose the pounds and have them stay away.   To do so, skip the fad diets and try some real diets that have been shown to work.   If you do want to drop a few pounds or more, what are some healthy weight loss diets?   Too many diets promise the world but are not good for your health.   For example, one of the diets ranked the worst is the Whole30 diet.   This, like so many fad diets, don’t work to help you change your lifestyle but offer some quick solution that isn’t viable for the long term.   You may lose some weight but when you go “off” the fad diet, the weight piles back on.   Another poorly ranked diet is the Alkaline Diet.   So,...

Want to eat healthier in 2020?   What does “eating healthy” mean?   In the class I teach, students are always recommending we eat healthier diets.   But when I ask them what this means they often struggle to come up with specifics.   Many people make a resolution to go on a “diet” for the new year.   Why not go on a “diet” to eat healthier?   Are there healthy diets to follow?   A diet not for weight loss or weight gain, but just a healthy eating pattern? Not a “diet” you go on for a week or two but a healthy eating pattern diet that you can go on all year long.   I was watching TV recently and the host noted that every January they go on the Whole30 diet.   Is this really a healthy diet to go on?   People may think they are eating healthy by following the Whole30 diet.   According to the Whole30 website, food groups like grains and dairy have a negative impact on health.   US News & World Report gives the Whole30 diet a...