Nutritionally Fit

9 Superfoods to Control Blood Sugar

Controlling your blood sugar levels through eating healthfully is a key way to lowering the risk of diabetes, heart disease, vision loss, and cancer. It curbs strong hunger and unhealthy cravings and also promotes increased energy, satiety, and weight loss. The key to controlling blood sugar is eating meals with healthy fat, lean protein, and a slowly digested carbohydrate. Here are 9…

Supermarket Survival: 4 Must-Know Tips for Grocery Shopping Like a Pro

Time to sharpen your shopping skills. Let’s face it with a plethora of food to choose from it can be pretty tough to be supermarket savvy. Here are some supermarket survival strategies: 1.Never go to the supermarket hungry The grocery store can be very tempting, but if you’re full while shopping you are more likely to buy only the items that are…

How To: Keep Your Little Ones Healthy During Summer

As the end of the school year is nearing and summertime is just around the corner, I am sure many of you are busy making plans for your children over the summer. Whether it is enrolling your kids in camp, summer school or just letting them hangout at home, we need to begin planning for the summer. Although schools have gotten a…

6 Vegetables You Probably Aren’t Eating and Should

The majority of people not only fail to meet the daily dose of recommended vegetables, but actually consume less than two of the three to five servings that they should each day. The ones that do eat vegetables, are often eating the least nutritious (potatoes in the form of french fries, tomatoes in the form of ketchup, and iceberg lettuce). Variety is essential to…

How To: Enjoy Guilt-Free Birthday Parties for your Little Ones

Are you like me and cringe simply thinking about the foods served at children’s birthday parties? Sugary treats, multiple handfuls of salty chips, and unhealthy juice punches to name a few. While these tasty treats are fine to eat once in a while, kids can overload on these nutritional no-no’s if they attend a birthday bash weekly, as our kids so often do…

6 Reasons Your “Diet” Isn’t Working

  Have you been struggling to lose weight? Have you “plateaued” or have you not even reached a peak yet? There are many reasons why your “diet” isn’t working, and mainly it can be because you are dieting, restricting, and putting your body into starvation mode. These 6 tips will help get you rev your metabolism back into shape, and hopefully, put…

To Be Or Not To Be Gluten Free?

You may have noticed going gluten-free is the new craze. It seems as though everybody these days is on a gluten-free diet and almost everyone you know has self-diagnosed as having gluten intolerance. Going gluten-free seems to be the cure to almost every health problem. Many people might feel better, experience less digestive distress by giving up gluten containing foods, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that gluten…

Back To School: Healthy Lunches for Kids

Ways to Add Nutrition to Your Child’s Lunch Box It’s that time again, get ready, get set and go pack those lunches because the kids are going back to school. Like so many moms, you’re once again faced with searching through the refrigerator and cupboard grabbing for anything you can find; often unappealing, dull and not necessarily nutritious. Planning lunches can be easy by following…

Is Food Making You Sick? Food Sensitivity Testing May Answer Your Questions!

Is Food making you sick? You may have a food sensitivity! Are you… Feeling tired, bloated, achy, or run down? Getting migraine headaches? Tired of taking expensive medications that don’t work and leave you with undesirable side effects? Frustrated because you keep visiting your doctor but still can’t find a solution that takes your symptoms away? Registered Dietitian Wendy Crump is now…

15 Yummy Low-Calorie Snacks

Hungry for a snack? People desire a snack from time to time, so go ahead here are some 100 +/- 20 calorie snack ideas. 1 Graham cracker and 2 teaspoons peanut or almond butter 3 tablespoons almonds 1 cup blueberries 10 tortilla chips and ¼ cup salsa 1 Brown rice cake with 1 triangle light laughing cow cheese 8 Baby carrots and…