Healthy Diet Tips
Coffee in moderation is good for you!
Feature by our Editorial Assistant Colleen
I was a little relieved when I heard about coffee being good for you. I definitely am happy when I wake up in the morning and take a sip of coffee. There’s just always been something about the taste that I really enjoyed.
I drink about two or three cups a day and I now find out it’s actually okay to drink that many cups of coffee in a day. There’s been a study that suggested that drinking six or more cups of coffee can actually lower the risk of diabetes. How incredible is that? I don’t know about drinking that much coffee though. You might run into some sleeping troubles. But you could try decaffeinated coffee instead.
>>> Here are some other recent discoveries about coffee:
*Another study found out that drinking two cups or more could lower the risk of stroke, but only for women who didn’t smoke.
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Video tutorial: Eating healthy tips for grocery shopping
The previous post is full of great information, but some people like it straight to the point!
For those who don’t want to know about pH foods, but just want basic tips on the right food choices when doing your grocery shopping.
Sam Graci, creator of Greens+ and author of The Bone-Building Solution, is one of the most knowledgeable people I know when it comes to healthy eating.
The fact that I was able to spend one full hour with him at Whole Foods Market is surreal and it’s the kind of experience I want to share with all of my readers.
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Video: Eating healthy tips for grocery shopping
***Don’t miss 5 incredible videos at the end of this post!***
What if you had a healthy eating expert walk you through the grocery store guiding you in making better food choices when you do your grocery shopping?
Would this be something you’d like? I think most people would jump at the chance of learning healthy eating tips from the creator of Genuine Health’s Greens+ Superfood powder.
I can tell you, that I start my days with Greens+ and it’s done wonders at supporting my health. I’ve had the opportunity of meeting Sam Graci at a number of events, but when I received an email telling me that Sam would be at Whole Foods Market offering advice on pH foods how to do make better food choices at the grocery store, I grabbed my brand new Canon VIXIA HF200 HD Flash Memory Camcorder with 15x Optical Zoom
I will first start with the videos and then I’ll explain more on pH foods and how important they are in supporting your health. This is a five-part video, so you’ll want to watch all of them to get as many tips as you can because we literally walked around the store for close to one hour and Sam is a real encyclopaedia of healthy foods!
1) Eating healthy tips with Sam Graci creator of Greens+ (part 1/5)
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American diets versus European diets
I already know that a lot of readers are going to be a bit offended by this photo and it might create a lot of controversy given that it’s a graphic depiction of the result of the types of foods most Europeans eat versus the types of diets Americans keep .
If a picture is worth 1,000 words this picture is surely proof that Americans are eating way too much food because portions are far greater than what the average person really needs. It might be a bit graphic, but the creator of this collage is surely getting the message across loud and clear.
On one side you have a slender woman with the European flag and in the lower right corner you see a basket of wine and what seems like “good quality foods”. On the other side you have an obese woman who is seemingly several pounds overweight and we see the American flag on the upper right hand side of the photo and a fast food meal from McDonald’s in the lower right of the photo.
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French Madeleines cakes that made me cry
I was checking out some of my favourite food sites when I noticed this recipe that surprised me so much that it made me weep with tears of joy.
I was so excited that I quickly emailed Mary, one of my editors, and she also was thrilled at the perspective of making this dessert.
Madeleines cakes are one of my favourite French desserts. In fact, it’s not a real dessert compared to some other more decadent French favourites, but it can be best described as a bite-size coffee cake that is much lighter than a pound cake (quatre-quart).
The twist with this recipe is that the creator boldly decide to replace regular flour with corn flour (well corn muffin mix in this case) and to top it off these Madeleines are stuffed with raspberry jam! You see, traditional Madeleines recipes are made with very finely ground nuts (usually almonds) as well as common cake ingredients such as flour, eggs, butter, sugar and vanilla.
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