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When you go to see a baseball game or the fair it can be hard to still eat healthy. Most foods at carnivals and baseball stadiums are super sized and usually come in smaller sizes. Here are a few unhealthy foods that you can find at fun summer places (like baseball stadiums, fairs, concerts, etc.) and a healthier alternative.

It’s hard to enjoy a summer excursion without being bombarded by high-cal, fatty foods and humongous portions at every turn. Making matters worse, if you find yourself catching a whiff of funnel cakes on an empty stomach, the temptation to get a plateful might be more than your weight-loss resolve can handle

Summer Fun Healthy Eating Tips

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Are all of the produce today losing is health power? Will, it turns out it is. The produce to day is not as healthy as it was 50 years ago. Here are nine simple ways to keep your produce healthy.

While we’ve been dutifully eating our fruits and vegetables all these years, a strange thing has been happening to our produce. It’s losing its nutrients. That’s right: Today’s conventionally grown produce isn’t as healthful as it was 30 years ago—and it’s only getting worse. The decline in fruits and vegetables was first reported more than 10 years ago by English researcher Anne-Marie Mayer, PhD, who looked at the dwindling mineral concentrations of 20 UK-based crops from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Is Your Produce Losing Its Health Power?

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When I say “worst burgers” I don’t mean it as tasting bad. I mean ‘”worst burgers” as in unhealthiest burgers in America. Click on the link to get the nutritional information on the seven most unhealthiest burgers in America.

Ground meat and bun, maybe a slice of cheese. Ideally there’s a pile of produce as well, but if not, so be it. The perfect burger doesn’t benefit from frilly accoutrements. Those “upscale” burger places that insist on embellishing with onion rings, gourmet cheeses, and herb-infused mayonnaise? They’re just showing off, like painting flames on a muscle car. The key to quality is in simplicity, and that’s what the best burgers have in common.

The Worst Burgers in America 2010

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Even thought it really isn’t healthy people eat fast food all of the time. Here are the worst five fast food meals you can order when you go out to eat and a healthier meal (still not healthy, but healthier than the other meals) that you can order at the same restaurant.

In the past few years there’s been some progress on the fast-food front. Many chains have answered our calls for healthier, lower-calorie options. Thing is, these efforts are almost always undermined by the rest of their menus. Show me a laminated menu (or plastic menu board), and I’ll show you a meal that will absolutely obliterate your waistline. To wit: These five caloric calamities—among the worst fast-food meals in America.

Worst Fast-Food Meals in America

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Burgers are delicious. They are one of my favorite foods. But they can’t always be healthy. Here are a few tips to help you have a low calorie burger that still taste great. 

INDULGE! Just follow these easy rules to build a tasty burger for only 400 calories — the perfect amount per meal to help control portions and lose weight.

Love Burgers? Try the 400-Calorie Fix

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Fish can taste really good if it is prepared right. Fish is also very good for your health. A lot of people don’t like to make fish at home because they don’t know how to make it, where to buy the fish, what type of fish to buy, etc. This guide has every thing. It tells you every thing you need to know about where to look to buy fish, what type of fish to buy, tips on how to get the fish ready, and recipes on how to make the best fish ever.

Fish may be the healthiest food on the planet, but that’s just one of the benefits of eating it. There is no protein that’s quicker, more adaptable, and easier to cook than a spanking-fresh hunk of fish. Too many men view this meat as a tricky ingredient that’s destined to turn to leather, or mush, despite their best culinary efforts. But with help from four of the greatest seafood chefs ever to wield a boning knife, we’ll prove that you, too, can cook truly amazing fish tonight. Learn a handful of shopping rules and master a few basic techniques, and you can bake, braise, saute, grill, and poach your way through the entire fish case with the confidence of a man raised on the tides. Go ahead — take the plunge.

Go Fish

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We all know that eating out isn’t healthy. Some fast food chains are making an effort to cut down on the amount of fat in their meals. But a new study shows that fat is not the only thing they should be cutting down on. There is 2,300 milligrams of salt in one fast food meal. That is way over the daily healthy amount of sodium. But there are a few things you can order that are low in sodium next time you go to a fast food chain. Click on one of the links to find out five low sodium meals you can order at fast food chains.

Eating out can be a headache these days for people who are trying to stick to a healthy diet. Meals are intentionally loaded with sugar, fat, and salt to make them more palatable, and while most chains are making efforts at cutting down on fat, a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that they’re doing a pretty poor job of reducing the salt, exposing a large percentage of Americans to more than an entire day’s recommended sodium allotment of 2,300 milligrams (mg) in a single entrée. Concerns about America’s over-salted diet have prompted the federal government to consider regulating the use of salt in packaged and restaurant food.

Four Ways to Order Low-Sodium Fast Food

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A lot of people eat organic food, others don’t like to eat organic food, and others don’t really care if it is organic or not. Organic food is much better for you than the food that have all kinds of preservatives in them. Here are five reasons you should eat more organic foods.

We are bombarded with information about organic foods—yet much of it is conflicting. Some people say it’s more nutritious, others say it’s not. And isn’t it more important to eat food produced locally? The truth is organic agriculture is key to our survival—and there’s clear scientific data to back it up. I’m not the first in my family to reach this conclusion. My grandfather, J.I. Rodale, launched Organic Farming and Gardeningmagazine in 1942, and with it the organic movement (as well as the company that publishes Runner’s World). My father supported local farmers. To them, organic was obviously healthier and better for the environment. But in the 1960s, many considered them crazy. So they set out to prove their ideas.

A Natural Choice

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Here are four ways you can lose weight with out going on a diet. These four ways to lose weight are very simple, but are very effective. Click on one of the links to get more information.

The problem with dieting is it deprives the body of food or is extreme in a few recommended foods. This is the opposite of how our metabolism functions, and that is why so often the results do not last. Diets that focus on just one type of food quickly become boring, and far worse, they fail to provide the range of nutrients that your body needs to function well. An unhealthy body often leads to an inefficient metabolism and slows down weight loss. When you are hungry, it may be your body telling you that it requires nutrients. With that in mind, this article gives you natural foods that support weight loss, and I always recommend eating a balanced and colorful array of wholesome foods.

Don’t Diet, Eat to Support Weight Loss

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Carrots a super healthy for you! They contain more than fifty percent of the daily amount of vitamin A, about twenty percent of vitamins K and C, and they only contain 52 calories. Click here for more nutritional facts about carrots.

Easy to pack and perfect as crudités for that favorite dip, the crunchy texture and sweet taste of carrots is popular among both adults and children. Although they are shipped around the country from California throughout the year, locally grown carrots are in season in the summer and fall when they are the freshest and most flavorful.

WHFoods: Carrots

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