Healthy Living News & Tips

One of the questions I get most often when speaking about weight loss, overcoming health issues, more energy or just feeling better is ‘what do I eat?’. ‘I need healthy meal ideas!’

I found that once you learned about the truly healthy foods, what to stick with and what to stay away from, it gets easier to figure out. So over the years, I’ve been testing recipe meals from all over the world, hand picking only the most healthy and video taped the best.

Since research and experience has shown that plant based meals are the healthiest, all recipes are vegetarian and are simple to make in under 10 minutes.

With this new resource you can tap into to get not only fast and easy to make, delicious and truly healthy meals, but also eating tips, shopping tips, exclusive recipe videos, meal plans, tips for helping children make better eating choices, healthy kitchen setup, articles and much more at: Learn Healthy Meals. Whether or not you want to just add a few more healthy meals to your diet, or transition your entire diet, you’ll find exactly what you need.

Preview some of the recipes featured in this quick video.

To learn more visit: www.LearnHealthyMeals.com

I just learned about a new documentary film that exposes the truth behind the junk and processed food industry and the effect on our children. It’s called ‘All Jacked Up’ and features interviews with both top health and nutrition experts as well as real teenagers as they share their traumatic experiences with living on junk food. Read the rest of this entry »

As you may know, the Farm Bill is coming up for vote soon in Congress. It may surprise you that the bill contains subsidies for foods high in fat, cholesterol and sugar. Basically, the government buys up foods like hamburgers, bacon, cheese and fatty other products and feeds them to our children at schools and through food assistance programs.

In turn, millions of dollars of donations are given to the congressman and senators that support a bill that keeps the profits rolling in for these unhealthy foods the government buys.

The only way to stop this practice that has been going on for years is to stop the subsidies. And you can help.

An amendment to the farm bill titled the FRESH Amendment (S. 2228) was introduced by Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) that would reduce the amount of these subdidies. Currently, more than 80 percent of food production subsidies support meat, sugar, oil, dairy products, and animal feed. All these foods have been proven to increase cancers, high blood pressure, obesity and related diseases. They are recommended to be minimized, if not avoided completely. Childhood obesity is rising at a rapid rate, in part to this practice.

In fact, the video How To Get Fat Without Even Trying with Peter Jennings points to the same practice of subsidizing unhealthy foods as one of the causes of obesity in our country today.

You can call your congressman and senators to express your support for the FRESH Amendment and help reduce the amount of unhealthy foods being fed to our children. Get the number to your representatives here.

To your (and our children’s) best health!

Mark