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Continued from part 1

How Am I Supposed To Find Time To Cook Breakfast Every Morning?
The solution is not to cook at all. You can make various dishes things in advance, like yuor own great homemade waffles, muffins, or pancakes and just microwave them from frozen  in a minute or less.

Or, why not try a breakfast smoothie?

The nutritious shakes blend together in a matter of minutes. Just pour your favorite breakfast smoothie in an insulated cup and you have breakfast to go.

You’ll find quick and easy recipes for a variety of smoothies at this site. Just click on the Smoothie link.

One thing is for sure, whatever breakfast you choose, you will feel more healthy and more in control of your energy, body, and moods, because you will be getting continuous nutrition throughout the day if you eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. With good meal planning, you will also save time and money, and above all, make smarter food choices when you are not in the grip of uncontrollable ravenous hunger.

Finally, protein such as is found in eggs, and fiber, found in cereals and fruit, can both make you feel full and have excellent nutritional value and few calories as compared with the convenience foods you might be grabbing, even those supposedly healthy meal replacement bars, which can be loaded with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, cheap soy, nuts to add flavor but also fat, and lots of preservatives.

So try to make the time every day to make your own breakfast. Your body and family will thank you for it.
Save Time And Money By Planning Your Meals

It may sound like an old wives’ tale, but breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. It gives us the energy to make it through the day and keeps our metabolism high as well.
It’s easy to skip breakfast with everything we have going on in the morning. After all, we have to walk the dog, get the kids ready for school, feed the cat, iron the blouse we’re planning on wearing to the office and so on. Fixing a healthy and nutritious breakfast just doesn’t seem to fit in with our busy routines.

But there are many options for breakfast, both cold and hot.

How Am I Supposed To Find Time To Cook Breakfast?
Often breakfast can be as simple as pouring a hot cup of water over some instant oatmeal and stirring. Grab a piece of fruit to go with it, or a add handful of berries.
One thing I love is my microwave egg poacher. I have a nice runny egg in about 28 seconds, a hard cooked one in about 31. Then I pop on a piece of bread or toast, and depending on how runny it is, I can usually run out the door with it.
I can even make my own egg breakfast sandwich at a fraction of the cost I would have to pay at a fast food place. Toast the bread or muffin lightly, then put cheese and or ham or Canadian bacon on top, give it 10 seconds in the microwave, then add your poached egg, for a real feast.
Often I have leftover potatoes and veggies like onions and peppers and tomatos. Why not do your own breakfast burrito. Cut up into bite-sized pieces, stir all the ingredients together in a skillet, and then add your egg and scramble all together. Serve toast on the site with more of the heated potato, or put the whole in a large wrap, You can even add a slice of or some shredded cheese, salsa, sour cream, whatever. So it makes a great brunch too.
So does leftover quiche, or french toast, also a great way to deal with any slightly stale bread you might have hanging around. You can season the french toast with cinnamon, vanilla, maple flavor, and you can have a couple of microwaved sausages or strips of bacon on the site.

There are many cold breakfast options. The most obvious ones are cereal, granola, granola bars, fruit, yogurt, cottage cheese, bagels and lox, a piece of quiche. Avoid the pop tart kind of things that are too sugary and carb-y, as they can pack on the pounds and make you jittery with sugar spikes.

Avoid danishes and over-large muffins for the same reason. The baked goods you get so cheaply at Costco and other food clubs are indeed a bargain, but look at the size of the things! If you must buy them, try eating half each day. Freeze them and thaw in the microwave. Or if they have been sitting a day or two, freshen them up in the microave for about 12 seconds.

Continued in Why You Should Eat Breakfast Every Day Part 2

Save Time And Money By Planning Your Meals

A new article has been posted recently:

Coping With Cholesterol

at our sister site on Nutrition.

Learn more about Cholesterol, its effects on your body, and how to reduce cholesterol.

A new article has been published at our sister site Nutrition Goddess on the topic of

Lifestyle Changes for Weight Loss

It also comes with a link to a great new special report on this topic from Johns Hopkins Health After 50.

So for everyone struggling with this issue, this report and its further resources should help a lot.

This new article was posted at our sister site, Nutrition Goddess:

http://nutrition-goddess.com/?p=31

Johns Hopkins Heart Health Alerts Presents Updated Guidelines

In a recent Johns Hopkins Heart Health Alert, Roger S. Blumenthal, M.D., Director of the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins, outlines the new features of the AHA’s 2007 recommendations for women.

In 1999, the American Heart Association first began to notice that heart attack was not just a men’s health issue, but one increasing for women, to such an extent that heart disease was the #1 killer of BOTH men AND women.

Now the AHA has revised their guidelines still further to try to protect more women from fatal heart attack, and encourage them to become more pro-active about their health.

Although a woman’s 10-year risk of developing heart disease may be low, Dr. Blumenthal says, “By the time a woman turns 50, her risk of heart attack or stroke over the next 35 years is between 5-10% — IF she has no other risk factors.

“Unfortunately, only a small percentage of women have optimal risk factors by age 50, suggesting an even higher lifetime risk of heart disease. So, women need to make changes sooner rather than later to reduce their lifetime risk.”

As part of the revised guidelines’ broader approach to prevention, more stringent dietary, exercise, and cholesterol goals have been added. You can read the full article here:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb743474.htm

Reuters health has recently reported that infants who sleep an average of less than 12 hours per day have twice the risk of being overweight by age 3 as babies who get at least 12 hours of sleep per day, findings from the Project Viva study indicate.
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/news/?id=reut-20080407elin028&msc=a62593
The same is true of adults. Recent studies have shown that people who sleep less than 8 hours per night tend toward obesity.
It could be a biochemical link. It could also be that being awake more hours, means more hours for eating.

Even if you are feeling unwell, you should definitely make an effort to eat, according to the latest research from a study published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/publicsite/ShowArticle.aspx?IsP=news/614/news614129.xml&dp=2008/04/03&q1=&cen=&xid=nl_EverydayHealthHealthyAging_20080408

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