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Taste Test Tuesday: Alexia Sweet Potato Julienne Fries
Sweet potato fries are all the rage in restaurants across the country and now there is a frozen product people can buy to make them easily at home. Like with most frozen French fry products, you bake them for about 20 minutes in a 400-degree oven after arranging them in a single layer on a baking sheet.
I usually look for frozen fries with no more than 4 grams of fat per 3 ounce serving and these have a little bit more than that (6 grams of fat per serving), but the saturated fat is low (.5 grams) and no partially hydrogenated oil is used in the making of this product so the trans fat is nil. Continue reading…
Fitting in Fitness: Quick Toning Exercises
Everyone looks better with a slim waist and good muscle definition, and most people are unhappy with how they look in terms of physical fitness and muscle toning. If you are interested in losing some flab weight so you can look and feel more healthy, but you’re schedule doesn’t have room for regular trips to the gym, you may want to consider doing some short toning exercises in your own home each day. Doing regular toning exercises can provide you with a short, easy daily routine that will help you to quickly slim down that waist, make you look better, and increase your physical strength.
Examples of Short Toning Exercises
The length of time that you are exercising will determine how effective the exercise will be. If y
Last Minute Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes and Tips
Did you wake up and realize today’s Thanksgiving? I
High Cholesterol Adds to Heart Failure Risk
It sounds obvious. Eating fatty foods, raises cholesterol, clogs arteries, and then WHAM you have a heart attack.
Shouldn’t be a surprise when it happens, but for millions of people it’s a real shocker.
So, a new study aims to clarify the risk, in case you didn’t know.
Published in the journal Circulation, a new study found people with high non-HDL cholesterol, which includes LDL, or bad, cholesterol had 13% higher risk of heart attack.