Top 11 Low-Carb Alternatives to Pasta and Noodles
Top 11 Low-Carb Alternatives to Pasta and Noodles
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Quick Low Carb Recipe – Grilled Honey Lemon Chicken Salad
Grilled Honey Lemon Chicken Salad – A delicious and healthy grilled chicken salad with a sweet and zesty honey lemon dressing, is perfect for a light lunch or dinner and can be ready in a matter of minutes. Grilling the chicken gives the salad a savory and smoky flavor that pairs perfectly with the honey’s sweetness and Read More …
Prediabetes – Your Chance to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
Prediabetes means you have a higher than normal blood sugar level. It’s not high enough to be considered type 2 diabetes yet. But without lifestyle changes, adults and children with prediabetes are at high risk to develop type 2 diabetes.
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Exercise Can Help Control Weight
Obesity results from energy imbalance: too many calories in, too few calories burned. A number of factors influence how many calories (or how much “energy”) people burn each day, among them, age, body size, and genes. But the most variable factor-and the most easily modified-is the amount of activity people get each day. Keeping active Read More …
Health Star Ratings
What is a Health Star Rating? The Health Star Rating is a front-of-pack labelling system that rates the overall nutritional profile of packaged food and assigns it a rating from ½ a star to 5 stars. It provides a quick, easy, standard way to compare similar packaged foods. The more stars, the healthier the choice. Read More …
Benefits of Feijoas
Health Benefits The feijoa is also known as pineapple guava, or guavasteen, the feijoa originates from South America but can now be found in subtropical/tropical areas, including Australia and New Zealand. Feijoas are sweet-tasting fruit, similar to pineapple, and strawberry. The best part of the fruit is the jelly-like substance (which has tiny seeds) in Read More …
YUKA – App to scan and analyse your food and cosmetics
YUKA is a mobile app that scans food and cosmetic products to provide information on the health impact of the products you use. How are food products rated ? Yuka’s food product scores are based on three criteria: Nutritional quality is 60% of the score. – This method takes into account: calories, sugar, salt, saturated Read More …
Removing the pain from diabetes testing
Blood Glucose Monitoring Blood glucose monitoring is a way of checking the concentration of glucose in the blood. Checking your blood glucose levels throughout the day will help you make decisions that keep levels within your target range. Checking your blood glucose levels helps you to: Talk to your diabetes health professionals about the target Read More …
YUKA – background
Founded in France in 2017 Yuka has garnered more than 30 million downloads, boasts 6 million active users, and is used to scan 2.2 million products every day. It has been steadily expanding beyond its native France and is currently available on the App Store and Play Store in the Unites States, United Kingdom, Canada, Read More …