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My Two Cents On The Cheerios FDA Warning

When I first heard the news about the Cheerios FDA warning because of Cheerios health claims, my first thought was--with everything the FDA could be doing--like lynching the criminal company who knowingly sold the salmonella peanuts--they're after Cheerios?

When you read through the hype, it's really not so much what they said, but how they said it, and the whole issue the FDA has regarding "allowed" health claims.  Cheerios does have some scientific backing for certain health claims, but the FDA is supposedly concerned that people will think that Cheerios can be considered a drug to prevent and fight high cholesterol and heart disease. 

Now if someone has a serious issue with heart disease, they need medical supervision, and most likely, unless they make major lifestyle and dietary changes, they're going to need medicines and possibly surgery to correct what's going on.  But here's another thought.  I'm not so sure the whole eat Cheerios, or any whole grain cereal, or other whole grains, or fish, or nuts, or fruit and vegetables, etc., is necessarily such a bad prescription to prevent and fight heart disease and other major diseases. 

Better to munch on Cheerios (or another healthy food) today, than to pop a pill tomorrow if you can avoid it.  But then again, big pharma would prefer that you do the reverse.  Maybe they're even behind the Cheerios warning and there's a conspiracy at hand (I must be watching too much 24).

Oh, oh here comes my FDA warning :)

There's no disputing the fact that a healthy diet and active lifestyle, can have a major impact on one's health.  Can it overcome heredity?  Maybe yes, maybe no.  Can it put you in the best possible position to live your healthiest possible life?  I think yes.  In fact, I'm counting on it, because I've been personally dealt a genetic hand that doesn't hold a bright future, so I do what I can to control what I can, and eat healthy and work out regularly.

Cheerios are not perfect (they could use more fiber in my opinion), but they make a solid quick meal with organic fat-free milk, as part of your own healthy trail mix concoction, and an easily portable snack that will keep you away from the really bad stuff, and never do to your waistline or heart what many crunchy snacks of a more evil nature will.

I say, FDA leave Cheerios alone and go after the really big problems--after all they're first getting around to banning Hydoxycut?  

And now I'd like to invite you to get a copy of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too! and get an invitation to a book customer-only private Q&A Teleseminar to get all your healthy eating and fitness questions answered personally by me live!  Simply e-mail me a copy of your receipt using the e-mail address in the book, and you'll be invited to the next event!   Go grab your copy today, and get one for a friend or loved one while you're at it who should be eating favorite comfort foods without sacrificing!

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

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The One New Year's Resolution To Make (And Keep)

As 2008 comes to a close, in this post for The Healthy Food Review, I'd like to direct you to an article I wrote that has been an inspirational favorite for those who work hard to lead a healthy lifestyle.  And if you're not quite there yet, or got off track as we hit the holiday season, perhaps it will give you the motivation to take that first important step to make it a healthy 2009!

Please take a moment to check it out, and share it with everyone you know.  And, as always your comments are welcome.  Thanks for reading The Healthy Food Review--Happy New Year!

The One New Year's Resolution To Make (And Keep)!

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--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

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Pet Peeves About Fellow Gym Members - A Public Service Message

Hi All,

Those of you who are readers of The Healthy Food Review (thanks!) or who follow me on Twitter know that I do my best to lead an active life, and I love to go the gym.  Yesterday, it just seemed like one of those days when more than the fair share of my fellow gym members were being annoying (although I am sure most did not realize it).

So I thought it would be fun, and a public service to identify those "Pet Peeves About Fellow Gym Members" here:

1.  Trying to use all your unlimited cell phone plan minutes blabbering away on the gym equipment

It's annoying and rude.  You keep the people around you from being in their fitness zone, and unless you are doing the fitness "talk test" at that moment, you probably aren't focusing on your workout or getting in the zone yourself as much as you should.

2.  Having A LOUD conversation with the person on the machine next to you

Sorry folks, but if I can hear your conversation six treadmills away over the song rocking out on my iPod, you need to turn down the volume!

3.  Leaving a big sweat spot at the top of the weight bench or ab machine 

Big yuck!  It's called a towel--please use it!

4.  Not re-racking weights

This causes two problems.  First, there is nothing more annoying than having only one of two hand weights of a certain pound size, or not finding the weight you want at all.  It's no fun spending half your workout time wondering around the gym looking for just the weight level you need or a hand weight's lost soul mate.

Second, if you leave a really heavy weight plate on a machine like the Hammer Curl ones, the next person may not be able to match your abilities, and they are stuck having to ask someone to remove it for them, or skip that machine.

5.  Don't ask me to work in 5 seconds after I finally get on the machine I have been waiting 20 minutes for.

You saw I just got here after waiting my turn.  It's not like I'm hogging that piece of fitness equipment after 5 seconds.  There's just got to be something else you can do and cut me some slack.

And if you do work in, don't leave the pin at 200 lbs when it's my turn to switch back!

And now I'd like to invite you to check out the natural pain relief secret I personally use regularly to keep those aches and pains we all get from time to time from our workouts and other ailments at bay CLICK HERE.

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

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NEW! NEW! NEW!  Melanie's podcast on infopreneuring--What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM) at http://www.WhatYouKnowIsWorthMorePodcast.com

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Wal-Mart Diet Exists According To New Study

Hi All,

As I always say, you have to just love the way the media spins research.  According to a new study from two University researchers (hopefully not sponsored by Wal-Mart, I'm not too cynical am I) having a Wal-Mart in your area could help you lose weight. 

People who live near a regular Wal-Mart are connected with a .5 pound weight loss.  Those lucky enough to also have a Super Wal-Mart are associated with another .18 pound weight loss.  They think it has something to do with the ability of lower economic people to be able to buy less expensive fruits and vegetables. 

I find that amusing because I do shop at my local Super Wal-Marts, but I generally find minimal selection of organic produce, and often a lot of their other produce just isn't as nice as that of some of the major supermarkets (maybe it's the Vegas heat), or certainly the natural foods stores like Whole Foods and some of the local stores in this genre.  Although Wal-Mart does have good produce prices--I get my bananas there all the time.  Plus, I can see where if you are on a tight budget, Wal-Mart would be a blessing to help you maintain proper nutrition.

My theory?  Shopping at a Wal-Mart Super Center especially gets you walking a lot more than it does at a smaller store.  In fact, when I lived in Colorado, my local Wal-Mart Super Center was in quick walking distance in cold snowy, weather, and my husband and I would purposely go to get out and do a bit of a walking workout.  In Las Vegas, I've been doing it all Summer in the triple digit temperatures.

Sometimes, I also find new healthy food products roaming around, like when I discovered Flatout Bread (see my previous post, Healthy Food Review Flatout Bread Wraps).  So I guess that could also contribute to the Wal-Mart Diet effect.

So in summary, I believe it's not so much that there is a Wal-Mart Diet, as we are talking about less than a pound difference after all, but extra walking, and possibly access to some healthy food products that have been included in Wal-Mart's offerings, could be contributors to an overall healthy lifestyle.  Just stay out of the giant chips, cookies and ice cream aisles if you don't have the willpower to make the healthier choices there.

Here's another take on it from Conde Nast: http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/odd-numbers/2008/09/09/the-wal-mart-diet

And now I'd like to invite you to learn the secrets of how it is deliciously possible to achieve healthy eating and weight loss without giving up ANY of your favorite comfort foods whether you live by a Wal-Mart or not, by getting free access to two chapters from my book "Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!" You can download them for free by going to http://www.healthyeatingcoach.com/bookexcerpt.html

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

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Wendys Baconator Are You Kidding Me

Hi All,

I was watching the first NFL football kickoff game to see if my Super Bowl champion New York Giants could pick it up where they left off.  I was not disappointed.

What was disappointing was one of the few commercials I happened to catch was for Wendy's new dietary monstrosity The Baconator.  First the ad mocks those who are vegetarians presumably by having one character talking about being a "Meatatarian" (and yes there is a whole counter culture apparently who focus on eating meat almost to the exclusion of vegetables).  Apparently, this is one of Wendy's hot new target markets.

Then they describe this killer hamburger sandwich as having 6 strips of bacon, two quarter pound   hamburger patties, two slices of American cheese, and mayo.  I give Wendy's credit though, on their web page they clearly indicate the nutritional info for the Baconator as being 830 calories, a stunning 51 grams of fat (including 23 grams of saturated fat and 2.5 grams of trans fat) and 195 mg of cholesterol.  Can you just feel your arteries slamming shut just by reading the nutritional content of that Wendy's Baconator?

And that's not including the fries and shake they advertise with it.

This is America, and to each their own I suppose.  And no one should be expecting to go into Wendy's or any other fast food place to find health food (although some have healthier options than others).  Besides, let's face it, Wendy's is in business to make a profit, so if there extensive consumer research before launching this product didn't show that someone would buy it, they wouldn't have made it.  What does that say about the American Diet?

But how about this?  Even though I would never use as large a portion of food as Wendy's does--I could do a healthy food makeover of even The Baconator.

Simply substitute:

--A whole wheat bun

--2 Boca Burgers or Morningstar Farms Grillers (you could even use the large, restaurant size Boca Burgers)

--6 strips of Morningstar Farms Veggie Bacon Strips (which is overkill but I wanted to match the number of Baconator bacon strips to be fair)  

--2 slices of fat free American Cheese

--your favorite reduced fat mayonnaise

--your favorite ketchup

My Baconator healthy food makeover is 590 calories, 24 grams of fat (3 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams trans fat) with just 5 grams of cholesterol, and my version adds 12 grams of fiver.  That's 240 less calories, and VERY importantly, 27 fewer grams of fat, 20 fewer grams of saturated fat and 2.5 grams less of trans fat! 

Thats' waaaaay better than the Wendy's Baconator.  Hey Wendy's how about making this vegetarian version?  We flexitarians have to eat too.  You make it, I'll buy it.  Remember you heard the recipe here first! 

And now I'd like to invite you to learn the secrets of how it is deliciously possible to achieve healthy eating and weight loss without giving up ANY of your favorite comfort foods, just like I showed you above with the Baconator, by getting free access to two chapters from my book "Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!" You can download them for free by going to http://www.healthyeatingcoach.com/bookexcerpt.html

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

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Mommy I Want Junk Food Problem Kids' Diets And What To Do About Them

Hi All,

I was recently traveling in the Northeast back to my NYC roots (yes thats' why I hadn't posted in a bit).  I was walking along the Northern New Jersey shore on a beautiful day when the following took place. 

Two Moms were pushing toddlers in their strollers with two slightly older children--maybe about age six or so--walking alongside.  I heard one of the kids say "Mommy I'm hungry".  To which I was very surprised to hear the Mom reply "No problem, I have a nice granola bar for you."  That was the first surprise as this was an East Coast beach scene, not a California beach scene.

What happened next was a shocker.  The little girl yelled back at the Mom at the top of her lungs "I WANT JUNK FOOD", and simultaneously, ripped a small bag of what looked like potato chips out of the stroller child's tiny hands.  Mom looked quite pained and now had to deal with a stubborn child, and a crying toddler.

This little six year old was already having junk food cravings and literally called them that despite Mom's best efforts to have her eat healthy.  And she was even moved to a bit of violence against her sibling to get the junk food she wanted.  That's positively scary.

Now I don't know whether this effort to change the kid over to a granola bar was a new thing or not, but I think when it comes to having kids eat healthy, it's got to start at a very early age.  Here are some tips for doing just that:

1.  Parents must set a great example themselves--if they eat junk food all the time in front of the kids, you can't exactly expect the kids to not mimic that. 

I hate to say it, but I have some pretty strong memories as a kid myself of my parents eating some very unhealthy things in large portions, and I used to copy it when I could.  In fact, I thought it was something grown ups did, and I thought it would be rite of passage to be able to do the same as an adult.  Instead it was something that took me years to unlearn.

2.  Call the healthier version of what you want the kid to eat the same name as the not so healthy food--a perfectly acceptable white lie. 

I did it with my young niece when she was a baby and was getting addicted to Cheetos as soon as she could chew.  I gave her Robert's American Gourmet Pirate Booty (which I was addicted to and still am), and called it a Cheeto (no offense to Pirate Booty) and she loved this much healthier version of the same cheese puff snack and was none the wiser.  In fairness, we didn't have Baked Cheetos back then like we do today, or I could have given her those at least instead.

When I lived in Southern California, I noticed Moms in the local Golden Spoon frozen yogurt chain would tell the kids to pick out their "ice cream".  Did they know any different with the great tasting treat before them?

Maybe if the Mom in the scene I witnessed called the granola bar a candy bar she would have avoided a war.

3.  Pick out fun finger foods that are also healthy or healthier ones.  A bag of baby carrots.  Dinosaur-shaped healthy Ian's chicken nuggets.  Healthy cereals like Cheerios.  A whole grain mini bagel. 

If it looks fun to eat, they don't have to know it's healthy--only you do.  They can appreciate you for helping them to grow up healthy and adopt healthy eating habits from a young age when they are old enough to appreciate your genius.

And now I'd like to invite you to learn the secrets of how it is deliciously possible to achieve healthy eating and weight loss without giving up ANY of your favorite comfort foods, by getting free access to two chapters from my book "Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!" You can download them for free by going to http://www.healthyeatingcoach.com/bookexcerpt.html

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

"Healthy eating with favorite comfort foods...it's deliciously possible!"

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Check out Melanie's other Blogs and Podcasts:

NEW! NEW! NEW!  Melanie's podcast on infopreneuring--What You Know Is Worth More Than You Know(TM) at http://www.WhatYouKnowIsWorthMorePodcast.com

Vegas Inside Scoop for Las Vegas locals and Las Vegas visitors at http://www.VegasInsideScoop.com

Copyright SunLover Publishing LLC 2008

Healthy Eating Flexitarian Style Is A Way To Go Green

Hi All,

I've always thought about having a mostly meatless, flexitarian style of eating from a health perspective, but a health news story tonight on Yahoo made me think of healthy eating a whole new way. 

Apparently, giving up, or at least substantially reducing your meat intake, is eco-friendly since according to a study from Germany, meat eaters' diets are responsible for nearly twice the emissions of those who eat vegetarian diets.  Don't you just love how when the media hops on a trend, it finds a way to use it in every news story possible?

Seriously though, a vegan can save the planet even further because by giving up meat and dairy, emissions are reduced by seven times, and if you were really virtuous, and were an organic-only vegan, you'd slash emissions by a factor of 17 times.

Now I am not suggesting that you go ultra-restrictive on your diet to save the planet, because as you know, I believe in healthy eating without giving up any of your favorite comfort foods.  It's important to go green for the environment, but even more important is adopting healthy eating habits to save yourself and be there for all the ones you love, and then you'll be on hand to make the world a better place.

Here's the original Yahoo story:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080826/sc_afp/lifestylegermanyclimateagriculture

Let me know what you think, feel free to chime in and leave a comment.

And now I'd like to invite you to learn the secrets of how it is deliciously possible to achieve healthy eating and weight loss without giving up ANY of your favorite comfort foods by getting free access to two chapters from my book Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Download them for free here:  http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com/BookExcerpt.html

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

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"Healthy eating with favorite comfort foods...it's deliciously possible!"

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Jennifer Love Hewitt Weight Loss What Did You Do?

Hi All,

Darn peer pressure, it even works on celebrities like Jennifer Love Hewitt. Back in January when I first started The Healthy Food Review blog, I wrote a popular post called It's A Sad Day When Celebrities Have To Explain Their Weight Gain To The Media in support of Jennifer Love Hewitt's "fuller figure" admist a media storm of, as unbelievable as it sounds, fat jokes, about Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Now, a new media event as Jennifer Love Hewitt shows off an 18 pound weight loss. That's a ridiculous amount of weight for Jennifer Love Hewitt to lose.  The photos of her online and on the People magazine cover I saw in line at the supermarket show a stick figure. I salute her accomplishment if that's what she wanted, but she was fine the way she was. I also think it sets a dangerous precedent, and sends a dangerous message to women and young women everywhere. 

It's about being healthy, being fit and having a positive self-image. Oh and by the way, it's okay to be average size for goodness sakes! It's not about being a size zero so you can be a human mannequin. I am sure though Jennifer Love Hewitt's publicist is thrilled to be able to have a solid opportunity to work the media machine.

What do you think about Jennifer Love Hewitt's new weight loss? Or about celebrities getting way too skinny overall? Post a comment and let me hear your thoughts.

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

And now I'd like to invite you to learn the secrets of how it is deliciously possible to achieve healthy eating and weight loss without giving up ANY of your favorite comfort foods by getting free access to two chapters from my book Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Download them for free here:  http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com/BookExcerpt.html

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"Healthy eating with favorite comfort foods...it's deliciously possible!"

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Make Money In Foreclosures http://www.YouCanMakeMoneyWithForeclosures.com

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Copyright SunLover Publishing 2008

Bottled Water Debate...Oh Please!

Hi All,

Bottled water is getting more controversial by the day, and there is apparently a bottled water debate going on as we speak.  Municipalities are trying to phase out bottled water and "promote importance of public water supplies" according to a Yahoo! article splashed on their home page (pun intended).

Let's see, Mayors, whose job it is to promote the cities they are mayors of, want to promote public water.  What a surprise :)

I used to make fun of the whole Evian crowd when that first bottled water became popular way back when because I too used to think--bottled water, how absurd!  I am originally from New York City which has always been known for having a top quality water supply.  My Mom, when she moved to Florida (the sixth borough as they say), could never drink the tap water since she had gotten so used to New York City tap water. 

I used to drink New York City tap water regularly until the day I turned on the kitchen faucet in my apartment, and the most gross brown sludge you can imagine came out.  That image of brown liquid oozing out of my faucet is forever burned into my brain.  So even if a municipality does have great tap water on paper, I've learned you never know when the brown stuff is going to come out instead!  So my husband (who also witnessed the brown sludge incident) and I switched to bottled water and never looked back.

But what about the environment others will say?  I do my part and reuse bottles, and use the ecofriendly hard plastic refillable sport bottles (living outside of Boulder for awhile taught me this--you don't go to the gym with a regular water bottle), but I am never taking a chance on brown sludge, sorry.  Besides, there are plastic soda bottles, juice bottles, energy drink bottles, etc.  Why target just bottled water, which is the healthiest choice out of all of those?

See what you think about the great bottled water debate here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080629/lf_afp/usenvironmentwaterhealth

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

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Check out more of Melanie's empowering publications on work-at-home lifestyles, foreclosure investing and learn about her Marketing and Infopreneur Consulting and Coaching Services at http://www.SunLoverPublishing.com

"Healthy eating with favorite comfort foods...it's deliciously possible!"

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Make Money In Foreclosures http://www.MakeMoneyWithForeclosures.com

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Copyright SunLover Publishing 2008

Healthy Eating Tips Omega-3 Exposed

Hi All,

As a reader of The Healthy Food Review Blog, I know that you are a health-conscious person after my own heart, so I wanted to take a moment to tell you about a terrific, informative book that my friend Lois Smithers just released called The Food Industry's Greed: How Misleading Labeling Of Omega-3 Foods Undermines Health--Inflammation And Omega-6.

It's a carefully-researched, easy-to-read expose on how:

**The government has condoned mislabeling of Omega-3 products

**The food industry has been ruining our health with its food processing methods for over a quarter of a century

**The role of inflammation in diseases such as chronic pain, ADD, diabetes, heart disease, etc.

**How we are on tons of medications for these diseases, that may very well be unnecessary.

**The shockingly simple fix for taking back your health, and more!

I've read The Food Industry's Greed: How Misleading Labeling Of Omega-3 Foods Undermines Health--Inflammation And Omega-6 myself, and despite having a great deal of knowledge about Omega-3 and Omega-6, I learned a great deal as well.  Quite frankly, I as appalled at the mislabeling and public duping that has been going on courtesy of the food industry on Omega-3 products.

We are clearly not getting the Omega-3 health benefits we think we are...and for which we are paying premium prices!

In The Food Industry's Greed: How Misleading Labeling Of Omega-3 Foods Undermines Health--Inflammation And Omega-6, Lois also shares her own personal experiences with how she overcame 6 years of chronic pain by making one simple dietary change based on her Omega-3 and Omega-6 research.

The issues my friend Lois courageously brings forth in The Food Industry's Greed: How Misleading Labeling Of Omega-3 Foods Undermines Health--Inflammation And Omega-6 affect EVERYONE from kids to seniors.  I feel it's a must-read and must-have for everyone--your health could depend on it!

By the way, as a special favor to me, Lois is offering a free 30-minute consultation with the first 20 buyers of The Food Industry's Greed to answer any questions you might have about Omega-3, Omega-6, inflammation and the research presented in her book.  E-mail Lois' team to get that bonus with your paid purchase through The Healthy Food Review.

UPDATE:  I'm trying out the recommendations in Lois' book myself for help with an ongoing pain condition I have had personally, and will report back shortly and "tell it like it is" about whether it is helping or not.  Stay tuned!

--Melanie R. Jordan, Author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!  Available 24/7 at http://www.HealthyEatingCoach.com

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