10 Healthy Grocery Foods | Jennifer Dietrick

Summertime is here to stay with its warm weather and sunny days. You may notice the local parks and beaches are filled with people enjoying a lunch or dinnertime picnic with their friends and family. While picnicking is a lot of fun, you need to pay close attention to food safety so everyone stays healthy.

Changing habits is not easy. Even breaking it down to the smallest baby step you can may still not be enough to create a new normal for you. I want to share 3 strategies I have found that make changing habits more effective.

There are many different types of cooking oil on the market. How do you choose the appropriate one for your cooking? What do you look for in a cooking oil and what do you want to avoid?

Breast cancer happens when cells begin to grow abnormally in breast tissue. You may be surprised to learn this cancer affects both men and women, but largely women. Approximately 200,000 American women are affected by this disease every year. Knowing your risk factors for breast cancer is the key to prevention! While many risk factors are modifiable, meaning you can change them, others unfortunately aren’t.

Managing your dietary habits can have a significant effect in your overall well-being. It can prevent you from cardio-vascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes and many more. To eat healthier food, you may need to change some of your daily habits.

Maintaining a healthy diet remains an important part of boosting your immunity. While there are no specific foods that can help protect you from the pandemic COVID 19, a nutritious diet can boost your immune system and combat the symptoms.

This article offers just a few suggestions about how to save a little money when shopping for groceries. Suggestions include saving on organic produce and reducing your food bill overall by using the neurochemical and hormonal properties of foods.

Arthritis is a painful condition where one or more joints of the body become inflamed; it typically worsens with age. With over one hundred different types of arthritis, the most common are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. While the different types have different causes, most often the body’s immune system begins to attack its own tissues, thus breaking them down.

The eyes are the window to the soul. You’ve probably heard this saying before. The eyes are also your personal window to view the colorful world around you. Preserving your vision is important and you can help with the very foods you choose to eat each day. Without protection, you run the risk of developing different eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.

Bones set the foundation for life as we know it in our bodies. They give us shape, help us to stand tall, and keep everything in place. It’s important to give them as much love and attention as we can. Through diet and exercise, you can build up your bones to be bigger and stronger.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease where the body struggles with insulin resistance. This means the body’s cells are resistant to the insulin your pancreas is secreting and as a result, sugar (glucose) is not able to move into your cells for energy. Therefore, your blood sugar levels stay elevated. If type 2 diabetes is left untreated, complications may result. These complications include heart disease, kidney disease, nerve damage, and eye damage to name a few.

This is absolutely not the definitive nutrition article. It covers some food fundamentals for anyone who’s looking to get started or simply review.