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Eating is a natural, healthy, and enjoyable activity for satisfying hunger. However, in our diet obsessed, food-abundant culture, eating is often mindless, consuming, and guilt-inducing instead. We can avoid the cyclical pattern of over eating throughout the holiday season and dieting to prepare for the summer by practicing mindful eating all year round.

If you’re not keen on foods naturally high in fiber such as legumes, oats, fruits, and vegetables, you may be tempted to choose fiber-fortified foods to help you reach your daily requirements. Manufacturers are putting isolated fibers in foods like yogurt, sugary cereals, energy bars, and even juices in order to make “high fiber” claims, but are they really the same thing?

Fat tastes good, plain and simple. When you choose a low fat option have you ever wondered how the flavor never seems compromised? The saddening truth is that in most cases sugar is added to replace the flavor of fat. We have spent years believing that fat is bad for our health and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Fat is not the main villain, sugar is!

Often nutrition is compromised by time constraints and convenience, but it’s important to create a healthy balanced lunch box especially where kids are concerned. It can be rather hectic for some as they readjust to a new schedule while trying to keep the flow of life in order.