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May 2010 Enhance Fitness Newsletter
Daily Tea
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Reflect, Simplify and Enjoy!
"A little at a time goes a long way" Anonymous
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Healthy Choice
I recently took a quiz about what food choices would be most healthy. Well, I failed the quiz! I got 5 right out of 17 (just under 30%). To be honest with you, I was not happy at all about the quiz. My score wasn’t what I was upset about, it was the content. This was a quiz to help children choose better foods to eat. Well, here are a few questions that they asked:
- What is healthier a McDonald’s Big Mac or an Angus Burger from Burger King?
- What contains less sodium, an Arby’s Roast Beef sandwich or a Supreme Taco from Taco Bell?
- What contains less calories, English McMuffin from McDonalds or a Ham Croissant from Burger King?
Back to the Basics
Believe it or not, eating healthy is simple. There is nothing complex about it. You don’t have to try the newest fad diet to lose weight, drink a special shake to be healthy, or choose what fatty fast-food is healthier. If you want to eat healthy, all you need to do is think healthy. Make healthy decisions and give healthy foods a chance in your diet.
The more basic the food, the healthier it usually is for you:
- What makes up fast food? Let’s use chicken nuggets for example. Here are the active ingredients for chicken nuggets:
WOW that is a lot of ingredients for one thing. I am still trying to figure out if this is really chicken or a bunch of hydrogenated oils trying to resemble chicken!!!
- What makes up fruits and vegetables? Antioxidants. Fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants that offer protection for our bodies. According to the National Cancer Institute "antioxidants are substances that may protect cells from the damage caused by unstable molecules known as free radicals. Examples of antioxidants include beta-carotene (carrots, spinach, kale, etc.), lycopene (tomatoes), vitamins C (strawberries, oranges…) and E, and other substances. Many of these antioxidant substances come from fruits and vegetables."
Complexity comes from all the bad processed food that is being advertised to us everyday. Simplicity is fruits and vegetables that deliver antioxidants into our body to reduce oxidative stress, support the immune system, and promote cardiovascular health.
- Chicken, water, salt, modified corn starch, sodium phosphates, chicken broth powder (chicken broth, salt, and natural flavoring (chicken source)), seasoning (vegetable oil, extracts of rosemary, mono, di- and triglycerides, lecithin). Battered and breaded with water, enriched bleached wheat flour (niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, modified corn starch, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, dried whey, corn starch. Batter set in vegetable shortening. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/or corn oil). TBHQ and citric acid added to help preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent. http://www.dietriot.com/fff/mcd/mcd.html
When it comes to food and good nutrition,
Think Simple and Eat Simple!
Port-Apple Snack (Communicating Food for Health)
An apple is already packaged neatly in its own skin, ready to go where you go. Wash your apple under cool running water and then wrap it in a napkin.
Here are 7 places to take them:
- Gym. An apple makes a refreshing, low-cal treat after your workout.
- Lunch box. Pack an apple with your lunch.
- Mall. Take them with you to the mall so you are not tempted with higher-calorie snacks.
- Party. Take a basket of apples to a party. It makes a nice centerpiece and becomes a guilt-free dessert.
- Friend’s house. Take 2 apples and share one with a friend.
- After-school activities. Kids are hungry when they get out of school. Keep apples ready to go for soccer games, doctor’s appointments and choir practice.
- Refrigerator. Keep them on hand in your refrigerator at home or work for snack attacks. They are a better choice than foods from a box or bag
