In the last newsletter, you learned how to read food labels.

Today we're going to look at another aspect of choosing healthy foods - reading the ingredients list.

A good indicator of healthy food is the ingredient list.

2 Things You Should Know When Looking at the Ingredient List

1). The healthiest foods are those with the least amount of ingredients.  

2). The ingredient amount is determined by the order in which it is listed.

The higher amounts are always listed first and the least amounts are listed last.

Take a look at...

When you walk down the grocery aisle looking for something healthy, you get slick, in-your-face marketing messages on the packaging...

• 40% less fat
• 30% less fat
• Garden Veggie
• Vegetable and Potato Snack

If you are trying to eat healthily, there are 2 rules you should pay attention to.

RULE #1 - You can’t always believe the front of the package. 

This is marketing to make you think you are getting something healthier than it is, just to trick you to buy their products!

RULE #2 - Don't forget Rule #1

Learn how to read food labels.

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Evelyn was a communications professor at John Carroll University. 

While in her fifties, she suffered two heart attacks. 

 After she underwent an angioplasty and a triple bypass, her cardiologist told her there was nothing more he could do for her and that she probably wouldn’t live out the year. 

 Soon after, she met Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn who suggested she would be a good candidate for a heart disease program he was starting. 

Dr. Esselstyn’s program was aimed at preventing heart disease with a proper diet. 

Not...

Last week I talked about the misinformation that is spread by the news media and even some medical professionals and one of the biggest reasons is because they too can be misled.

This newsletter is just one example.

If you’ve read news reports of studies that show eating an egg a day won’t raise your cholesterol or increase your risk of a heart attack, you should know there is more to these studies than meets the eye. 

According to Dr. John McDougall: 

“Dozens of papers published in scientific journals and funded by "The Egg...

One of the best ways to keep yourself out of the medical mill is to learn how to cut through the BS.

Did you know?...

4.5 billion prescriptions were filled in the US in 2016 and medical procedures increase year after year, yet our health is still not improving. 

In the US alone… 

•  60% of people are overweight or obese. 
•  Over 600,000 Americans die every year from heart disease 
•  15 million people have diabetes 

These are the very conditions that can and will keep you from enjoying your life to the fullest. 

A great way to progress your ability to cope with negative feelings, unwanted thoughts, panic, anxiety, and stressful situations is the practice of mindfulness.

Making mindfulness a daily practice can help turn down the noise in your mind by bringing you to the here and now (being present) instead of dwelling in the past or the future, leading to a happier, calmer, more relaxed you.

If you are like most people, mediation conjures up images of swamis, yogis, and monks and terms such as Ashram, Buddha, and Chakras.

You don’t have to get caught up in these...

How many times have you started a diet and lost weight only to gain it back again?

There are so many diets and opinions it can make your head spin.

One day they tell you it’s okay to eat fat then the next day you are told not to eat carbs.

Then the next one says you need to eat more protein.

To add insult to injury they tell you that you lack willpower.

It’s an ordeal trying to figure it all out.

You're not alone.

Over 68% of Americans are overweight or obese.

The good news is, being overweight does not have to be a life sentence of struggle and...

When I was about 11 years old, and my sister was 7, our mother used to leave the house at 7:00 am, 5 days a week to walk a mile to the bus stop to get to her job as a dental assistant.

After she left, we were pretty much on our own to get ourselves ready for school…making breakfast, ironing our clothes, then walking to school.

By the time she got home, it was 6:00 pm, and now she had to make dinner out of whatever the food we had in our semi-bare refrigerator or cabinets…have you ever seen a whole chicken from a can?

This was the typical everyday...

In July 2014 something changed my life.

About a year before then, I had to see a cardiologist because of an abnormal EKG.

The doctor informed me, my cholesterol was at 220 and he told me to either start eating right or I would have to go on a pill.

There was no way I was going to take medication so I told him I would start to eat better.

Even at 63 years old the doctors’ words didn’t motivate me.

I was Einstein’s definition of insanity...

  “Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.”

It turns...