"Food" for Thought & Action- "4 Foods to Eat for a Healthy Weight>"

• New Cosmic Fitness, LLC blog post by Daniel I. Sheff, the Dependable Certified Personal Fitness Trainer in Buffalo, NY

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• Here is a very interesting article by Catherine Roberts that reviews several "hearty diet additions [that] can help with your slimming-down goals."

• (1) Whole Grains.
  • "Get them ideally in their natural state—barley, brown rice, bulgur, quinoa, or wheat berries, for instance. In the Tufts study, participants ate whole grain bread, cereals, pastas and tortillas."
  • "Bonus: Popcorn counts as a whole grain. Just remember to go light on the salt and butter."
• (2) Nuts.
  • "Get them for an afternoon snack, toss them into a salad, use them to coat lean pork or poultry, or sprinkle over cooked vegetables. An ounce is about 23 almonds, 18 cashews, or 14 walnut halves. Opt for unsalted nuts to keep your sodium intake down."
• (3) Beans and Lentils.
  • "Adding pulses (aka beans and lentils) to your diet could help you lose weight and reduce body fat, according to a 2016 analysis of 21 studies. The research team from the University of Toronto found eating pulses led to weight loss, even in people who weren’t trying to lose weight."
  • "Among the 940 overweight or obese adults in the study, those who ate about a daily serving of pulses—from about half a cup to around a cup and a half—weighed on average about three-quarters of a pound less than those who didn’t: a “small-but-significant” difference, according to the scientists."
  • "Another analysis from 2014 found those who added pulses to meals felt about 30 percent fuller compared with people who ate meals without them."
  • "Get them by adding them to salads, soups, tacos, even smoothies."
• (4) Berries
  • "Get them with yogurt for breakfast in the morning or for an after-dinner treat, or buy them frozen to use in a smoothie."

​So which of these four foods already are part of your nutrition plan?  And which are not? And why?

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http://www.consumerreports.org/healthy-eating/4-foods-to-eat-for-a-healthy-weight/?EXTKEY=NH74N00H&utm_source=acxiom&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170425_nsltr_healthalertapr2017