Healthy Lunch Ideas and Recipes

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How To Eat Healthier at the Office

Work How To Eat Healthier at the Office hour. While that realization can be somewhat depressing, it also shows how your habits at work have a huge effect on your weight-loss goals. Sure, the office can be full of temptation--whether the vending machine calls your name at 3 p.m., or your boss brings in glazed donuts every Monday morning--but your workplace can actually be a place that supports your healthy lifestyle. You just [more]

low calorie meals

low calorie meals Restricted recipes low calorie meals Breakfast (190 calories) Oatmeal made with 1.4 ounces steel-cut oats (160 calories) and water Scant (slightly less than 1/2 cup)  fresh blueberries (30 calories) low calorie meals Dinner (306 calories) Chicken Stir-Fry (281 calories) Cut a 5-ounce chicken breast fillet (148 calories) into strips. Stir-fry in a nonstick skillet in 1 teaspoon olive oil (27 calories) with 1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger (2 calories), 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro (3 calories), 1 clove garlic, crushed (3 [more]

Six low fat recipes

Without losing any flavor discover these six sensational, healthy, tasty, and easy to prepare low fat recipes: 1. Veggie Pasta Primavera You don’t have to tell anyone that this sauce-alicious pasta dish is better for you. With fresh spinach and peppers in a creamy cheese sauce, they won’t believe you anyway. Number of servings: 8 Servings Ingredients:  lb. whole wheat linguine, uncooked 1 pkg. (10 oz.) baby spinach leaves 1 red pepper, thinly sliced 1 yellow pepper, thinly sliced 1 jar (8 [more]

9 Foods to Boost Your Mood

Orange. Good morning, sunshine! Peel an orange any time of day for an instant energy and mood boost. This super-nutritious citrus fruit brims with Vitamin C, which helps pump oxygen through your body and brain to recharge your system. "Oranges are the perfect bring-along snack," says Somer. Toss sections into your salad or rice dishes, and dunk them in fat-free chocolate syrup for dessert. Omega 3 Greasy fat goes straight to your hips, but [more]

Onions as Fat Free Nutrition

You may think of onions as those white slices that come on your hamburger, but there's more to onions than you think. Onions are part of the Allium family, which includes a whole range of flavorful root vegetables: garlic; red, white and yellow onions; scallions (also called green or spring onions); shallots, leeks and chives. All alliums grow as underground bulbs with above-ground leaves and a flower stalk. Onions contain beneficial polyphenols, [more]

5 Healthy Habits to Help Manage ADHD

Taking care of your body can help keep your mind focused, Healthy habits have a lot of benefits and are a key part of any wellness strategy particularly for adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Exercise Regular aerobic exercise increases the levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in your brain, two neurotransmitters that tend to be low in people with ADHD. They're the same neurotransmitters targeted by stimulant medications used for ADHD. In [more]

5 Quick and Easy Pasta Recipes:

Pasta! We all love it, but it's easy to get bored by this weeknight staple. Spice up your spaghetti with these easy 5-ingredient recipes from Katie Workman, author of The Mom 100 Cookbook and The Mom 100 blog. 1. Pasta with Creamy Sun Dried Tomato and Scallion Sauce.   2. Thin Spaghetti with Fennel, Bacon and Parmesan.   3. Whole Grain Penne with Zucchini, Tomato and Feta   4. Campenelle with Chicken Sausage, Kale and Olives   5. Chicken and Mushroom Marsala.     <A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?rt=tf_cw&ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fnikblo-20%2F8010%2Ff7feeaba-cd02-48de-a4ad-197a74e3744c&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</A> Related articles Easy [more]

Pasta with Creamy Sun Dried Tomato and Scallion Sauce

Try roasted tomatoes (which you can make yourself easily, or purchase at an upscale food market) instead of the sun-dried for a slightly different, smokier flavor. This is a creamy, vegetarian pasta with simple flavors. The technique of using some of the pasta cooking water in the sauce is an old one; the starch in the cooking water helps to bind the sauce to the pasta. Additionally, cooking the pasta in [more]