Healthy eating isn’t about fad diets and short-term goals. It should focus on sustainable eating habits that encourage a positive relationship with food. Building a strategy with this goal in mind will be integral to finding a way to make nutrition work for you. Small steps can make a big impact, but only when you maintain a level of consistency and discipline. Here are five focal points that can lead you to greatness. #1. Prepare Your Own Treats There is nothing wrong with incorporating treats into your nutrition plan. However, chowing down on processed foods and sugary snacks will undo the good work achieved elsewhere. This lemon buttermilk pound…
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What is Foodscaping?
Why are landscaping and gardening treated like two different things? Both work with mother nature, putting the right plant in the right place, monitoring sunlight and water, and helping the plants along as they grow… so, they have more similarities than differences, so why do we treat them with difference approaches? Traditionally, gardens are planted in rows, tucked away in a far corner of the landscape. Landscape plants are set closer to the house and organized aesthetically. Foodscaping combines both aesthetics, and practically, rather than a specific location in the yard. Is Foodscaping a Revolution? Brie Arthur is an award winning author and horticulturalist sharing her knowledge of The Foodscape…
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5 Reasons to Avoid Fast Food Consumption
As I drag myself to my new job, I past numerous fast food joints and coffee shops offering unhealthy food. Of course, we know it tastes yummy, and you enjoy the sumptuous delicacy, but it isn’t doing any good to your health. Unfortunately, many of us, including me, are looking for convivence and forgetting what fast food does to our bodies. All of us know, eating a poor quality diet high in fast food is linked to a higher risk of obesity, depression, digestive issues, heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and early death. But here are few other things to consider before you pull up to that…
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How to Enjoy Foods From Different Cultures
Cooking is often referred to as the universal language. There are no barriers that can limit or block communication through good food. No matter where you’re from in the world, you can learn so much about a culture or even a group of people based on the food they prepare and eat. If you’re interested in learning about foods from different cultures, there are things you can do to embrace that interest and really dive into learning more. Not only can you learn about the different cooking methods people use across the world help to rekindle your passion for cooking, but it can introduce you to a variety of new…
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Reasons Learning to Cook Is Therapeutic
Learning to cook is more about just being able to keep ourselves alive. It has a deeper meaning to it, it can be therapeutic. While some life skills and traits are more important than others in many different perspectives, there are a few that are objectively seen as super necessary. One of those life skills is the ability to cook. Being able to put food on a plate for yourself and those around you has more effects than what face value provides. Some people are able to prepare meals better than others. You probably know an amazing chef that can create three-course meals, and friends who can barely boil water.…
