by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine If you’re watching your weight, be sure to maintain a healthy lifestyle as well. Your overall health is about waist – not just weight – management. Many people who are watching their weight may well be short-changing their general health. Combining weight management with a healthy lifestyle can help to prevent and/or manage blood pressure, blood lipids, cholesterol and blood…
by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine These days there’s so much conflicting information and misinformation making the media rounds that it’s no wonder many of us are confused about which fats we should eat, which we should avoid and why. Healthy Living helps you sort the good from the bad. For years, low-fat and fat-free diets were all the rage. Full-fat products were the enemy, we…
Carrot & Red Pepper Tofu Stir Fry One of my favourite dishes is anything made with Tofu!! Tofu: The trick to having a delicious Tofu dish is to make sure you use firm or very firm GMO Free tofu and then dry it well with towels or paper towels. This allows it to have more of a “meat-like” texture and it will soak up any sauce you choose to add…
by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine Hormones control almost every aspect of your physical and mental health. When one hormone is a bit off, all of your hormones are a bit off. If they are not balanced, it is almost impossible to control your weight – no matter how little you eat or how much you exercise. Our bodies produce dozens of hormones that control virtually…
by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most important – and that definitely applies to digestion. Remember when your grandmother told you to sit up straight, chew your food and eat slowly? Well, she was right. Today’s society has forgotten that food is our nourishment to live and not just something to fill us up until the next meal.…
by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. – Irish Proverb In 1910, North Americans slept about nine hours a night. By the mid-1970s the average night’s sleep had dropped to seven-and-a-half hours and to just seven hours by the late 1990s. According to a recent survey by Statistics Canada, one in seven…
by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine You used to eat anything and not gain an ounce. Now it seems you just look at a chocolate doughnut and you gain weight. As we age, our metabolism slows down, but there are many things you can do to speed it up. Metabolism: What is it? Metabolism is the process by which your body burns calories (food energy), and…
by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine Plates, coffee cups, muffin tins, even pizza pans – they’re all getting bigger. But big portions can cause a weight gain of 10 pounds in a year! Shawn Nisbet serves up some sensible advice on getting a grip on today’s ‘portion distortion.’ We don’t tend to notice bigger portion sizes until our bodies get larger. We want more food for…
by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food” – Hippocrates A healthy immune system is equipped to deal with common illnesses, such as colds and influenza. Your body can heal, repair, regenerate and restore health if you nourish it with healthy foods, moderate exercise, deep sleep and consistent stress management. Here are the immune-boosting foods that…
by Shawn M. Nisbet, RHN, CFA and Healthy Living Magazine There are good fats and bad fats. To be healthy, we should eat a low-fat diet. That’s what we’re told. But is it true? Since the mid 90’s, more researchers and health advocates have questioned the fear that fat makes us fat and causes disease. Emerging evidence indicates certain types of fat, especially essential omega-3 fatty acids and monounsaturated fats,…