Healthy Eats

It's good food, good for you. An accumulation of great, healthy food from different sources. Recipes, tips (and sometimes nutrition facts) included. {And for followers you have noticed, it has become a hodgepodge of health related things.}
A beet, ginger, carrot juice with at Urth Caffé in Downtown LA. It was so good. The ginger was smooth, the beet and carrot were sweet, and the boba was the cherry on top. 

Just a quick update: I will be posting more stuff soon. Especially information for marathon running because I am training for a half-marathon (baby steps first) so on top of dieting tips there will be exercise tips. Hope everyone has Healthy Eats!

A beet, ginger, carrot juice with at Urth Caffé in Downtown LA. It was so good. The ginger was smooth, the beet and carrot were sweet, and the boba was the cherry on top.

Just a quick update: I will be posting more stuff soon. Especially information for marathon running because I am training for a half-marathon (baby steps first) so on top of dieting tips there will be exercise tips. Hope everyone has Healthy Eats!

My boyfriend and I were on our date and this is my new favorite latte, ever.
It’s the Matcha Tea Latte from Four Leaf in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
I have had many green tea lattes but this is the only one that has not been sweetened with a pound of sugar. In fact, the only thing that is sweetened in this drink are the Boba Balls in the bottom. Other than that, the matcha tea and the milk have just been poured in, sans any sugar. 
It is absolutely divine. AND LOOK AT THE GREEEEEEN. It’s too pretty to pass up.

(This may not be healthy like a salad, but to indulge healthily is to indulge consciously so no, this is by far a healthy drink compared to the crap at Starbucks or Coffee Bean or any of those other chains).

My boyfriend and I were on our date and this is my new favorite latte, ever.

It’s the Matcha Tea Latte from Four Leaf in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

I have had many green tea lattes but this is the only one that has not been sweetened with a pound of sugar. In fact, the only thing that is sweetened in this drink are the Boba Balls in the bottom. Other than that, the matcha tea and the milk have just been poured in, sans any sugar. 

It is absolutely divine. AND LOOK AT THE GREEEEEEN. It’s too pretty to pass up.

(This may not be healthy like a salad, but to indulge healthily is to indulge consciously so no, this is by far a healthy drink compared to the crap at Starbucks or Coffee Bean or any of those other chains).

The Differences Between Sugar

When fructose (the natural sugar in fruit) is accompanied by fiber, the combination helps slow the digestive process and keeps blood sugar levels more stable, says Susan Moores, R.D., a nutritionist in St. Paul, Minnesota. cakes and Sweets are made with refined sugar and can flu through your system (especially in the absence of fiber), and the crash that follows leaves you craving more sweets.

Women’s Health, from the October 2011 issue.

8 Billion

Dollars we’d save (by reducing health-care costs related to air pollution and lack of exercise) if Americans rode bikes instead of driving for just half of all short trips-five miles or less.

‘Clean the Air’

If you treat yourself to regular massages, you might want to skip the aromatherapy. A new study shows that when essential oils (also used in scented candles and air fresheners) break down, they produce ultra fine organic aerosol particles that can cause eye irritation and breathing problems over time. People with asthma or sensitive lungs are better off sticking to fragrance-free products. But if you can’t live without the smell of lavender, or peppermint, or lemon (just a few of the scents tested), make sure the rooms you’re in has ample ventilation (think:an open window or air-filtration system.

Women’s Health SCOOP! fact

April 2012 Issue

Tuscan Baked Zucchini

All the flavor of your favorite Italian meals, minus the meat

Part-Time Veggie Lover: Going meatless even once a week has its perks. “Eating more plant-based foods means you’re getting more fiber, potassium, vitamin C, and other nutrients,” says Dawn Jackson Blatner, R. D., author of The Flexitarian Diet. And that can lover your risk for health issues, etc.

Tuscan Baked Zucchini

All the flavor of your favorite Italian meals, minus the meat


Part-Time Veggie Lover: Going meatless even once a week has its perks. “Eating more plant-based foods means you’re getting more fiber, potassium, vitamin C, and other nutrients,” says Dawn Jackson Blatner, R. D., author of The Flexitarian Diet. And that can lover your risk for health issues, etc.

ORTHOREXIA: A fixation with healthy eating or righteous eating. Orthorexics often eat only organic foods, eliminate entire food groups or refuse to eat anything that isn’t ‘pure’ in quality, says clinical psychologist Sari Shepphird, Ph. D. Unlike anorexics, they don’t necessarily think they’re fat of strive to be thin; some are motivated by a fear of bad health, a fixation with complete control of the disorder to improve their own self-esteem. Ironically, severe orthorexia can lead to malnourishment.

—THE SCARY RISE IN ADULT EATING DISORDERS by Jenny Deam in the April 2012 Women’s Health Magazine

minhdianthai:

i love drinking this!

Chia seeds texture changes once it is in contact with liquid.

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