KTK-Nutrition

On road trips, who doesn’t have to stop at a gas station?   Are there some healthier grab and go foods you can buy at gas stations?   How can you stop those hunger pains but not fill up on junk food?   Healthier Beverage Options 1.   Water – always a good choice to stay hydrated.   Choose a no-calorie sparkling water.   Or treat yourself to some Perrier mineral water. 2.    Juice – most gas stations have 100% juice.   Just make sure you are not reaching for Sunny D, Hi-C or some other highly sugared beverage.    Just heard on TV that half the added sugar in our diets comes from sugar sweetened beverages.   Not sure if this is a true fact but Americans eat a lot of added sugar.   Some people might say juice is high in sugar. 100% juice has no added sugar, just the natural sugar from fructose.   Look for some Naked Juice which is a blend of many juices and always no sugar added. 3. Milk – yes, milk ...

Most everyone knows that we all should eat at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day.   For years USDA has a slogan:   5 A DAY, to remind us to eat at least 5 servings of fruit and veggies a day.   Many people ask how much of the 5 A Day should be fruit and how much should be veggies?   Mixing up fruits and veggies are a good idea as each provides us with different vitamins, minerals and those good antioxidants.   Some say to limit fruit to 2 servings a day as fruit has “sugar” in it.   But fruit has natural sugar in it, not “added sugar”.   It is the “added sugar” that we need to cut back on.   So what guidance is there about how much fruit we can or should eat?   An interesting article appeared in Time, Is it possible to eat too much fruit?   Dr. Robert Lustig, a professor at University of California at San Francisco discusses some interesting new research on fruit. What are the concerns about eating too much fruit? A...

What are some easy nutrition tips to eat healthier?     Eat This Not That   has some easy nutrition tips to follow:   Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Hide the junk food and make healthier food more visible.   A study at Google noted that people ate less M & M’s if put in an opaque container.   They ate more fruit and nuts when these were displayed prominently.   In fact, staff ate 3.1 million less calories of M & M’s in an opaque container in seven weeks’ time. The 1 in 10 Rule :     Look at the nutrient label and for every 10 grams of carbs, look for at least one gram of fiber or 10 carbs:1 fiber.     Why is this important?   You want to have whole grains in your diet and this is the ratio of carbs to fiber in whole grains.   A study in the Public Health Nutrition journal found that carbs with the 10:1 ratio had less sodium, less sugar and less trans fats. Cut calories by boosting flavor :   in the nut...