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Dining Out Strategies

How to find healthy and tasty meals while eating out.
Here are four rules to stick by when you open your menu:

1. Be colorful

Meat and creamy sauces are usually beige, right? Where do most dishes get their brightest colors? From vegetables and fruit, of course. Choose the most colorful dishes on the menu and […]

Pizza A Healthier Take-Out Food

Done right pizza can be a diet friendly weight loss delight.
There’s no reason to cut pizza out of your life — it offers a quick, easy, tasty way to get loads of vegetables, fruit, fiber, and even fish without much artery-clogging saturated fat. But pizza, like any other take-out/order-in food, has its own pitfalls.

When […]

Fast Food in Your Diet

Don’t eliminate fast food, just make smart choices for weight loss!
If you’re like most Americans, you frequent one of the country’s more than 72,000 fast-food restaurants at least once a week. After all, industry data show that fast-food accounts for 86 percent of meals taken home from restaurants.

Stick to double cheeseburgers, supersize […]

Dining Out: 20 Eating Healthy Tips

Eat at your favorite restaurants without losing your health goal.
Navigate the Menu
Suddenly it seems that chain restaurants like Applebee’s, T.G.I. Friday’s, Olive Garden, and Bennigan’s are almost as ubiquitous as the Golden Arches. No surprise. There are nearly 200,000 “table side” restaurants in the United States today, a number that continues to grow. […]

Restaurant Trade Secrets

The ingredients that make the food oh so good, but oh so bad for you.
Unhealthy Additives
How do restaurants make their food taste so good? Here is the unhealthy truth.

Butter. In the soup. In the sauce. On the meat. On the vegetables. Butter is the easiest, quickest way to make things taste rich and […]

New study links fast food to increased weight

A collection of nearly 3,400 young adults were tested for a decade, and with each fast food meal they ingested, their body mass index (BMI) went up by a significant percentage, said Barry M. Popkin of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, one of the lead scientists for the study.

It’s “enough of […]

Eating Well While Eating Out

You know the importance of eating well, but how are you supposed to do so when your schedule is so demanding that you’re hardly ever at home? Read this article to find out how people make healthy food choices while eating out.

If I Eat Well at Home, What’s Wrong With Splurging When I […]

Eating Healthy at Fast Food Restaurants

You can swear never to eat another burger, fry, or shake again, but get real. Often, the one and only option on America’s interstates is fast food. And certainly, a trip to the mall usually means passing the food court, with its aromas seducing you to stop for just a little […]

Healthy fast-food options

Here are some of the worst and best foods you can pick from at fast food restaurants.

Worst 10 Fast Food […]

Fast Food Questions

Where are the Fast Food Restaurants?

Fast Foods Restaurants are all around us.  Almost everywhere you look you’ll see a familiar sign symbolizing our […]