Earlier I mentioned how I like the idea of the Canada Food Guide but I really do not like the ratios of foods. Here is how I would change things if I had the choice.

I am not sure how much you know about the Canada Food Guide but the idea is that the Canadian government has come up with a list a lot like the US food pyramid that list a type of guidline of what you should eat every day. There has always been arguments from people that the meat, milk, and grain lobby all have too much influence as well as the fact that a lot of people that have problems with lactose or gluten intolerance, as well as vegetarians are not really recognized in the Canada Food Guide.

Last year Health Canada radically revamped the Canada Food Guide and it is much better as it looks at age, sex, and other factors. Anyway I have my own ideas of what I would like to see as basics of the Canada Food Guide even though they have done a great job at Health Canada I think lots of people will not follow the more complex guidelines and are instead looking for a set of simple rules.

My Canada Food Guide

8 glasses of water a day
I don’t care that water is not food. Water is still a nutrient that people need for a healthy diet and most people do not drink any water let alone a little bit. Adding water to the food guide would be a great addition

3-5 small servings of meat or fish
I know that meat and fish are not th only place to get protein but at least mentioning fish again would add to the options. Also most people think that a serving of meat is an 8 ounce steak, not a can of tuna but the can of tuna is just as good. Your body just can not metabolize a big steak.

3-5 servings of vegetables

3-5 servings of fruit
Why is it that fruits and vegetables have always been lumped together? Fruits are great for their high water content and antioxidants and Vegetables are great for minerals including iron and Calcium. I know that this is a generalization but it would be nice to see people eating more of both fruits and vegetables. Oh, and tater tots and french fries are not a vegetable no matter what my brother in law thinks.

2-3 servings of high fiber grains
The idea of lots of breads I believe is outdated as a nitritous food group, instead I beleive it would be good to have reference to high fiber foods and to have examples.

Serving sizes for My Canada Food Guide
Come on governments on both sides of the border, it would be nice to have a better idea, not just in print but in news papers and TV, of what a serving size really is. The biggest poblem facing most people is not the junk and misplaced nutrients but instead it is a lack of idea of what serving sizes really are. A bowl of food or cup of coffee is a great sized breakfast but a giant plate of food is not quite enough for dinner? We need to get the word out about what is a good meal morning, noon, and night.

I know that there is a lot more to a good diet than these few things but I look at this as a guide, a way to look at a days food, not the everything that we eat in a day.

Do you have better ideas? Let me know. I would love to add a few more things to this list of my Canada Food Guide in a follow up.

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I have struggled to write this article on healthy recipes for weight loss for a long time. A healthy diet is essential for weight loss. While it’s necessary to cut down on fats and calories, your body still needs large amounts of nutritious foods. You need to find healthy recipes for weight loss, and you can also learn to adapt your favorite recipes to replace unhealthy, calorie-laden ingredients with low-fat, nutrient-rich foods.

Healthy Recipes for Weight Loss

Many diet programs fail in the long run because they involve boring, tasteless foods. Sometimes they involve eating only one type of food, which we all know is not healthy either. Thus, a successful weight loss program should focus on healthy recipes for weight loss that promote good eating habits. All it takes is a little effort and imagination to achieve your weight loss goals.

Healthy Recipes for Weight Loss

Recipe Substitutions for Weight Loss

Recipe substitution is a delicious and healthy way to lose weight. Your favorite recipes will taste just as good if you replace unhealthful ingredients with healthier options. Use low-fat cheese instead of full-fat. Ground beef in hamburgers, meatloaf or spaghetti can be replaced with ground turkey, chicken, or lean pork. For your favorite breakfast muffin recipe, use mashed ripe bananas or applesauce to replace half of the butter, oil, or shortening called for in the recipe. Your muffins will stay moist and taste just as good as the original recipe

Weight Loss Using Healthy Cooking Methods

Your cooking method can make a huge difference in terms of calories and nutrition. Frying adds unwanted fats to your otherwise healthy recipe and can derail your weight loss program. Instead, you can choose to bake, grill, steam, or broil your food. When you steam your vegetables instead of boiling them, the nutrients remain in the vegetables, not in the water.

Tiny adjustments in your cooking methods can add up to make a healthier recipe for weight loss. Reduce the amount of oil used for sautéing, and trim all visible fat from meat cuts. Remove skin from poultry and cut down on unhealthy, saturated fats.

Healthy Portions are Critical for Weight Loss

Healthy weight loss can be achieved by adjusting recipe portions and proportions. Your stir-fry can be made healthier if you add more vegetables and less meat or poultry. Healthy recipes that include beans are great for weight loss. Beans are high in protein but low in fat and calories. You will feel full more quickly and feel satisfied much longer. Control your portion sizes and you will be able to eat your favorite foods and still lose weight.

Find Healthy Recipes for Weight Loss

If you take the time to search, you will find hundreds of healthy recipes for weight loss online. You can find recipes for healthy soups, green smoothies, snacks, pasta and vegetarian meals that will help you lose weight quickly.

There are lots of things to thing about when you are trying to lose weight but at least you can start using these today.These few tips should get you started in your healthy recipes for weight loss quest.

Cookies are delicious any time of the day but no one believes there could be healthy cookie recipes, many people think they are unhealthy and should be banished from a healthy diet. Fortunately for everyone with a sweet tooth, there are healthy cookie recipes that you can eat without feeling guilty. These healthy cookie recipes have less fat, less sugar, and include healthy ingredients such as whole grain flour, oatmeal, applesauce, raisins, and nuts.

Store-bought cookies are often loaded with sugar and saturated fats, but healthy cookie recipes made from scratch will satisfy your sweet tooth without adding inches to your waistline. If you make your own cookies using healthy ingredients you can enjoy them on a regular basis.

Healthy Cookie Recipes Ingredients

By adding the right ingredients to your healthy cookie recipes, they can help provide essential nutrients to your diet. Whole-grain flour, wheat germ, rolled oats, nuts and dried fruits are just a few of the healthy ingredients that you can add to your cookie recipes. If you have a favorite cookie recipe, you can also make some healthy substitutions.

Oil and Shortening Substitutes

Healthy Cookie Recipes

Oil and shortening make your baked goods soft and chewy. While not all fats are bad, some are healthier than others. Canola, sunflower, and grapeseed oils are healthy options that you can try. Applesauce is also a good substitute for oil, and can really cut down on fats and calories.
Sugar Substitutes

To make your cookie recipes healthier you can start by reducing the amount of sugar called for in the recipe. Eliminate one-fourth of the sugar and give your recipe a taste test. You may be able to eliminate one-third of the sugar and still have a tasty cookie.

You can also substitute another sweetener for the sugar. Use honey or maple syrup instead of sugar, but add only half the amount. If the recipe calls for 1 cup sugar, use 1/2 cup honey or maple syrup instead.

Healthy Carrot Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

The following cookie recipe is found at 101 Cookbooks and contains healthy oatmeal, carrots and nuts.

• 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 2/3 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup shredded carrots
• 1/2 cup real maple syrup, room temperature
• 1/2 cup unrefined (fragrant) coconut oil, warmed until just melted
• 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and oats. Add the carrots and nuts. In another bowl, combine the maple syrup, coconut oil and ginger. Add the liquid ingredients to the flour mixture and stir until just combined.

Drop by level spoonfuls on prepared baking sheets, 2 inches apart. Bake in pre-heated oven at 375 F for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.

Healthy Cookie Recipes tips are easy to do and a great indulgence that will keep you slim.

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Cheat Day on a Diet

Taking a day of your diet is good. A diet is a great example of having commitment to what you want and I applaud anyone and everyone that does a good job of committing themselves to staying healthy with a good diet. The trouble is trying to stay on a diet every day for months or years on end. This is what people aspire to but it is not very easy to do.

Cheating day on a diet confuses your metabolism

A few diets seem to say that you should try to confuse your body by staying on your diet for a few days or a couple of weeks at most and then getting off your diet for anywhere from one to three days. What do you think of this? Well the idea behind the days off on a diet is that you need to confuse your body so that it does not just adjust to lower caloric intake or just lower your metabolism to maintain fat levels.

Diets with a Cheating Day

Would you like to know examples of off day diets? There is a Weight Watchers diet adjustment that involves changing the amount of points you eat a day and cycling though these. You could do a kind of day off on this plan. The Body for life plan is that you do diet and exercise six days a week and eat whatever you want for one day a week. And finally there is the fat loss for idiots program that has you do the diet for 11 days and then take 3 days off before you do it again. This is the most confusing for your body (this is good) and easiest for you to manage.

Rules for a Diet Cheat Day

The best way that I see people doing there diet with days off is to have rules still for your days off. Try to follow the following rules:

1. The idea is to eat what you want but do not overdo it.
2. First of all you need a good regimen for your diet days and then for your days off the rules should be about how you cheat.
3. Try to make sure that you are not being ridiculous because it is your day off. Do not eat a whole large pizza or a gallon of ice cream.
4. Do not binge, no huge meals just meals that make you comfortably full
5. This is the day that you go to a restaurant if you want.
6. Do not eat three days worth of food in one day. The idea is that you can cheat but you don’t want to spend the whole week just catching up.

I hope that this plan for days off helps. I know that I have struggled with this in the past but the best thing is to just expand on your regular diet and at the same time make sure that get to eat those things that you are craving, in small measures of course.

Jack Lalanne

Jack Lalanne, one of the originators of the fitness movement has died but left a fantastic legacy to help people to look after their health and concentrate on their fitness as one of the cornerstones of a great life.

Here is a great article from the Globe and mail today talking about Jack Lalanne and what he taught and meant to those in the fitness community.

Jack LaLanne, who died on Sunday at age 96, was regarded as the father of the modern fitness movement. Dressed in snug jumpsuits, the television fixture preached a balance of exercise and healthy diet and inspired millions. The Post spoke to fitness gurus about the top lessons learned from LaLanne’s legacy.

What was  the Jack Lalanne Legacy?

1. There is no excuse for not exercising. Long before Nike told everyone to “just do it,” LaLanne was relentless in his pitches, using a drill sergeant’s bark and cadence. “Jack inspired the world with his no-nonsense approach to exercise,” says Maureen Hagan, fitness instructor and VP of operations at GoodLife Fitness Canada. “Many of us will recall Jack showing his TV viewers how to exercise in the kitchen, using a chair and lifting soup cans as dumbbells. His ‘no excuse, just do it’ attitude inspired the world to at least try exercise.”

2. Weight training is a key component of a fitness regimen. “He popularized the whole notion of fitness before we recognized it as a crisis situation,” says Christa Costas-Bradstreet, physical activity specialist at ParticipAction, the national not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting active living. When LaLanne first began recommending weights in the 1930s, he said that physicians opposed his advice, warning it would cause heart attacks and lower sex drives. “People thought I was a charlatan and a nut,” LaLanne said in a posting on his website. “Time has proven that what I was doing was scientifically correct — starting with a healthy diet followed by systematic exercise, and today everyone knows it.”

3. Fitness is for everyone. “He taught that physical activity was something for all ages, irrespective of socio-economic status and ability,” Costas-Bradstreet says. LaLanne invited women into his health clubs, and also encouraged the elderly and the disabled to exercise. “I share the great passion for bringing women into the gym environment that Jack LaLanne pioneered,” says Craig Ramsay, author of Anatomy of Exercise and trainer on Bravo’s Thintervention.

4. Practise what you preach. When LaLanne was 42, he did a record 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes. When he was 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman’s Wharf — while handcuffed, shackled and towing a boat. Late in life, he continued to rise at 4 or 5 a.m. for two-hour workouts. “He himself was a role model,” Costas-Bradstreet says. “Only 7% of Canadian children and youth are meeting Canada’s physical activity guidelines and 15% of adults. We absolutely need role models, particularly for kids.”

Read more  at the National Post here

To me Jack Lalanne has always been the old guy that has lived what he preached. He sold Juicers to make sure people stayed healthy, he espoused healthy and fit lifestyle choices and most importantly Jack Lalanne made sure that we knew that growing old did not mean we had to live and acet that way.

Trying to lose weight is a difficult task. Not only are you being bombarded with new diet fads that promise hard to believe results, but you are also being bombarded with information that is completely false and if you try these plans you are going to less likely to stick with the new idea of losing weight. This is why it is vital that you find a healthy diet weight loss plan. Not doing so will only cause you to avoid all weight loss plans in the future and you will ultimately never lose the weight.

There are many websites that offer a free diet plan for you to utilize so that you literally lose nothing when you try these new diets. So how can you find these diets? A simple search online through a search engine will give you thousands of hits. The work then begins as you need to decipher between those that are considered a healthy diet and those that are nothing but fad plans that will only have you lose the weight for a short-term basis. You goal is to find a weight loss plan that teaches you a new way to eat without having to starve yourself in order to finally shed the pounds. Too many times people give into these plans that promise losing twenty pounds within two weeks and are surprised that after they stop the plan that they actually gain that weight back or even more weight.

So, what is the criteria that you should set for a free diet plan? For starters, you should make sure that the plan includes a balanced diet in that you are getting foods from all of the food groups. If you are only eating one type of food, for example, the cabbage diet, though you may lose weight quickly because you are essentially starving your body, you will not keep this weight off. Secondly, you want a plan that will help you lose weight by changing your life. You should not look at this as it is just as though this is temporary and once you lose the weight that you want you can then eat whatever you want. This is where most people find the hardest point to accept, this new plan needs to become how you eat from now on, so that you maintain the size that you want to be once you get there.

With the invention of the Internet, it has literally made it easier to find these free diet plans, which saves you money and the number of resources that respond when you simply type in ‘free diets’ is incredible. However, what should you watch out for? Watch out for fad plans of course, but how can you tell if the plan is a fad? Do a little extra research on the plan that you are interested in and find reviews of what other people say, look at the aspects involved in the plan to see if they appear healthy and above all else, ask your physician before you begin so that they too can look at the aspects in the plan. Also, watch out for those plans that say that they are free then ask for your credit card number in case you ever want to buy something else from them, this can more than likely be called a hoax since they are asking for your personal information.

Overall, use your common sense. If the plan seems to good to be true, then chances are that it is. Once you start it if it feels as if you stay hungry or you notice that you begin to have side-effects such as headache, nausea, fainting or whatnot from the particular plan you choose, then see a doctor as it could be this particular plan is just not giving you enough substance to survive.

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Is fat loss 4 idiots Diet (aka Weight Loss 4 Idiots, The Idiot Proof Diet) one of the best diet to lose weight with?Let’s look at a couple of points -1. fat loss 4 idiots Diet generates Four healthy meals a day to keep the body satisfied and reduce the likelihood of cravings. As well, the meals consists of essential food groups like fiber, complex carbs, protein and lean fat – which are essential for a healthy diet. 2. The meals generated by fat loss 4 Idiots are varied daily to avoid boredom. 3. You still get to eat your favorite treats like pizza, ice cream every 11 days – like any good diet programs, you should be allowed to eat your favorite spoils, but in moderation. 4. fat loss 4 idiots Diet is a simple but great learning tool – It shows you the kind of foods you should be eating and getting into your diet for a healthy body. So are there any BAD points about fat loss 4 Idiots Diet generator?It’s not a big deal, but the big hype of ‘Losing 9lbs every 11 days’ is stretching it. To be honest, if you’re looking to lose 9 lbs in 11 days with fat loss 4 idiots Diet, you’re just setting yourself up for a big disappointment. Although you may lose 9 lbs every 11 days, not everyone will – and you maybe one of them. This diet will not work for everyone, because each individuals metabolism will react differently – and will have different weight loss results. However, fat loss 4 Idiots is a great learning tool to help anyone to lose weight with in the long term. If you stay patient, and focus solely on improving your health – you can lose 9 lbs and more with fat loss 4 idiots Diet generator. And when you throw in regular exercise – not only can you lose more weight than you thought possible, you’ll keep the weight off. Use fat loss 4 Idiots Diet as part of your fat loss journey – and if you have to repeat the 11 day cycle again . . just do it.

okay well i was wondering if id get better results from working out in the morning or nite. . does it matter. . and i heard the first 20mins u burn carbs then start to burn ur fat stored is that true. . . if i work out first thing in the morning is that bad? how long before should i eat and how long after and what to eat at these times around my workout. . (i do like 200push ups some sit ups, leg lifts, squats, and some free weights. . sometimes like 15mins of cardio all in all a 30-45min workout)
And my other question does it matter when u eat the protein to make ur muscles feed off of it i want max effectiveness. . if i eat a protein bar before i sleep like 1hr is that bad good?

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Tom Venuto’s book burn the fat feed the muscle, available for digital download, explains in-depth, a non-traditional system for lowering one’s body fat percentage and keeping the fat and weight off permanently. Unlike other aggressive weight loss plans, this book involves no supplements or drugs, time consuming exercises, or large scale cooking of several meals a day. The objective here is to take in the right type of nutrition where you’re not storing or accumulating any additional fat, and you’re providing only your muscle tissue with the necessary proteins to grow. The book burn the fat feed the muscle can be used in a couple different ways. A lot of hard core, power dieters and those active in the gym can provide some direction and a unique approach that they haven’t seen before. People who have never dieted or put out any real effort to trim down fat or lose weight can benefit because the book burn the fat feed the muscle provides a better starting point than many.

Readers have said about the book burn the fat feed the muscle, that the articles included (some of the author’s other writings) are inspiring and provide a whole new look to the idea of developing unstoppable fitness motivation, basic health principles, and combining diet and exercise.

Sacrifice is something most people have come to accept when they get into a program like this, but the book burn the fat feed the muscle focuses on the methods that let you make sure you’re still enjoying life while staying healthy and thin. I always laugh how some obese people who refuse to diet or exercise often criticize certain weight loss methods by saying “That’s not a healthy diet. ” It’s true, there are some hard-core diets that starve your body and rob you of the important nutrition you need to stay healthy, but the nutritional approach discussed in the book burn the fat feed the muscle provides all of the necessary variety of the right foods so you can stay healthy.

The book burn the fat feed the muscle is being commonly regarded as a “must” for anyone who has tried out a lot of the conventional diets, books, and exercise programs, and doesn’t seem to make any headway. When you consider the significant gains that people have been seeing from this, it definitely makes it something worth looking into.

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There are lots of ways that you can get healthier. Getting healthy means that you are losing excess weight that might have plagued you, and that you no longer have to carry around this extra bulk. This allows you to be much fitter. Each of your body systems will be able to be healthier with a fat loss diet plan because you won’t have to worry about the added stress on your knees or ankles that comes from carrying around more fat and weight than you need. You can also know that by doing a fat loss diet plan you are allowing your heart and lungs to have less work to do, which takes pressure off of them. A fat loss diet plan allows your body to have less occurrences of fatty deposits in the arteries and veins, which is something that will also add to your overall health. Therefore, you know that a fat loss diet plan is going to be great for you. Not only will you look your best, and feel your best, but you can know that you are truly going to be more healthy.
A fat loss diet plan is important because without a good plan it is often hard to get into the shape you’d like to be. It is much too easy to eat foods that are bad for you, and to continue to live a life that is unhealthy. Without a fat loss diet plan, you yourself might feel lost and you might not be able to lose the weight that you’d like to lose. Therefore, a fat loss diet plan is very important.
There are lots of ways to find a fat loss diet plan that works for you. However, when you do find one, it is important that you research it so you know for sure it is going to be a fat loss diet plan that will really work, and that it is one that is healthy for your body and the rest of your life. Therefore, choosing a fat loss diet plan for you might be something that takes a little bit of time. Just be sure that you are looking at all aspects of the plan and reading the testimonials so that you can be sure it is the right plan for you.
Remember that a fat loss diet plan really isn’t anything without a healthy lifestyle plan. If you are going to lose weight, you also need to be active each day. You have to find ways that you can live an active life, and you must be sure that you are doing these things on a regular basis. A fat loss diet plan will work the best when it has healthy exercise that works along with it. This is the best way for you to find that perfect plan and lose the weight that you have always wanted to lose. Don’t be afraid to try a fat loss diet plan, you’ll be able to tell right away that it works for you.