Part 1 of 3 The following three-part series features guest posts by Janis Jibrin, M.S., R.D., and Dr. Barry Sears, and are featured in the Healthy Eating Section. In the first post, “Are You a Food Addict?” by Janis Jibrin, M.S. R.D., lead nutritionist at BestLife, it provides a food questionnaire to find out if you may have a food addiction, and Janis shares helpful strategies to help overcome it. In her next post, “Foods…
Read More...Healthin30 on KOMO News Radio Seattle, WA Shares Tips About Reading Food Labels
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I was thrilled to take the other end of the microphone as guest expert for quick healthy living spot on KOMO News Radio in Seattle, WA, thanks to Matthew Holt and courtesy of The Health Care Blog. I talked with hosts John and Nancy about the importance of reading the ingredients on food packages. Reading only the front food labels on food products can be misleading. Consumers need to…
Read More...4 Super Foods for Spectacular Health
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Raise your hand if you want to eat healthy. Healthy eating isn’t just good for cinching your waistline; it’s great for overall health. From glowing skin, to heart health, to maintaining healthy teeth and bones; eating foods packed with certain nutrients can also protect your immune system and fight infections. It can boost your libido and decrease that lousy (LDL) cholesterol and boost your good (HDL) cholesterol. Healthy eating…
Read More...7 Reasons Kids are Fat and 7 Simple Ways to Fight back
Guest Blog by Carol Torgan, Ph.D., FACSM School bus stops, food courts, video arcades – everywhere we look we see evidence of the often repeated stat that nearly one in three U.S. children and adolescents aged 2 through 19 years are overweight or obese. In a recent briefing on childhood obesity held in Washington, D.C. to highlight a special issue of the health policy journal Health Affairs, numerous scary stats were presented. A few of…
Read More...FDA Gets Tough With Misleading Front Food Labels
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA The next time you head down the food aisle, check out the front food labels. The front of food labels or front-of-packages (FOP) are misleading and often confusing, leading the consumer to believe that the food they are about to buy is healthy, when in fact it is not. In a recent post, Healthy Eating? Find Out What Could Be Hiding In Your Foods, I asked the question if…
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