Health – Page 8 – Living Our Best Lives

Ingredients in Packaged Food to Avoid

Eat real food, vegetables, clean eating, avoid processed and packaged foods

Modified-this, hydrogenated-that. There are a number of potentially harmful chemicals and ingredients that manufacturers put in our food products (an estimated 2,000 to be exact). We touch on some of the most common here, but remember, if it’s on the label and it’s not a food product, put it back and choose something else.

How to Read a Nutrition Facts Label

Food labels, reading nutrition facts labels

In several posts we’ve talked about reading food labels and ingredient lists. But what the heck does that mean and what are we looking, or rather not looking, for?

What Should We Eat?

What to eat, grocery store, clean eating, healthy foods, healthy diet, whole grains, healthy fats

We’ve covered a lot of things to not do. So what SHOULD we be eating? The short answer – Food in its most natural form. The majority of the food we consume should consist of fresh fruits and vegetables, grass fed beef, free range chicken and turkey, sustainably caught fish and seafood, whole grains, healthyContinue reading “What Should We Eat?”

Ditch the Scale

I use to weight myself everyday. If my weight was down I had a great day, if it was up I had a terrible day. Then the more I started focusing on health as opposed to weight loss, I came to realize how toxic this relationship was and finally stopped. We are not a numberContinue reading “Ditch the Scale”