Foods and Recipes for Younger Looking Skin Who doesn’t want to look younger than they are? The vitamins and minerals that are found in our food can help protect our skin from UV damage, decrease fine lines and wrinkles, and increase its color and elasticity. Here are some foods rich in the essential…
Nutritious Brain Foods Healthy foods not only make your body healthier, they make your brain healthier and help it to work smarter too. If you put garbage in your body, you will reap the repercussions both physically, with poor muscle mass and weight gain, but also mentally, often with a depressed mood and a…
A few years ago I was working with a client named Sarah who was hands down the busiest person I had ever met. She wanted to make changes to her health but she felt that she simply didn’t have time to make her meals. So instead of tackling all of her meals, we just started with lunch.
First we discovered that she was spending an average of $10/day at lunch. Not a huge amount at each sitting, but when we added it up for the entire year she was spending $2,600 just on lunch! Next, we estimated the calories of what she was eating. Even though she was trying to make sensible choices, the average eating out meal contains over 1000 calories. That is nearly twice as much as what her body needed at lunch. This added up to an extra 265,000 calories per year! Not to mention the additional sodium, fat, and cholesterol.
Now that we had both financial and health reasons, Sarah was motivated to make a change. Here were the three most important steps that helped her make bringing her lunch a healthy habit.
Lunch Recipes That Can Actually You Look Forward To
Talking Turkey About Tryptophan During your Thanksgiving holiday, when you are having some well-deserved time off and some quality time with your family, those who enjoy eating turkey as much as I do, will undoubtedly be eating the ever-popular amino acid tryptophan. Tryptophan is needed for normal growth in infants…