Trying something different today.

I came to this blog last and it’s taking a creative beating as I am coming up dry on unique ideas to inspire the healthful eating our bodies desire and crave.

Thanks to a cool little tool called Zemanta I have been given a starting point.  A small amount of inspiration for which to base my literary vomit upon. Vomit, only because I can imagine how my gut would feel after this delicacy.

The image to the right was suggested by Zemanta as a possible topic for blog use.  It was the only suggestion that had to do with food and therefore easily seemed most appropriate for Diet Grader.

Now with a long hard look at the bacon burger. I can almost smell it from here. and then of course there is no missing of the ice cream dessert… I can’t say what’s really on my mind…  Oh yes I can and I need to hurry… I’m hungry.  It’s almost 5pm as I write.  I’ve kept up on small snacks and shouldn’t be hungry, but my mind and the imaginary smells are taking over.

I’d love to say bad, bad, bad, but I figure I really don’t have to.  What I can say is that when i’m done eating a masterpiece similar to the scary foods pictured, the Diet Grader program will plainly point out the obvious error of my ways, but because it cares it will also suggest items to help me make up where I am still lacking (not likely calories) and steer suggestions away from those that I have gone over the limit on with this fine meal.

We all must be able to enjoy a not so perfect meal from time to time, but we also must have a realistic picture of what is lacking and what is in extreme excess so that we can make up and ease the negative effects over time.  Diet Grader, I find works perfectly for this and can do the same for you in your diet monitoring and meal planning.

You have a can’t pass it up even though I should meal like this?

The modern dietary regimen known as the Paleolithic diet (abbreviated paleo diet or paleodiet), also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various human species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic—a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture.

There are so many different “Diets” out there… well, we’ve all been confused by the many claims in the past .

An example of just one diet is the Caveman Diet.  The beauty of the diet grader, is that no matter what “diet” you choose to follow, Diet Grader can tell you how it stacks up against modern scientific research.  The next generation release of Diet Grader will not only tell you how it stacks up to current science, but will also tell you how you are doing based on the popular diet of your choice.

Jump into Diet Grader now and see how your Paleo Diet stacks up.

Full story: New York City’s Hometown Newspaper – NY Daily News

Food researchers examining the benefits of a Mediterranean diet have discovered something intriguing: a natural ingredient found in tomato seeds is actually good for the heart, according to the London Daily Mail.

If you like Mediterranean menu planning and the proven benefits for your heart and cardiovacular system?  You’ll like the flexibility of the Diet Grader system.You’ll find Mediterranean and other healthful types of meals in the Diet Grader.

Sign up for your free week Determine your diet grade and how to help your heart by fitting tomato seeds into your diet.

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We want to know what your favorite recipes are.  We being all visitors to this site.  We now have a new built in function that can make it all possible.

Click on the RECIPES tab and add your favorite healthy recipes

We will have the entries quickly reviewed, but cannot guarantee healthfulness or flavor of recipe… You can try it out or plug it into your dietgrader.com account to view those details.

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(Health.com) — People who spend a full year on a strict low-carbohydrate diet can lose weight, but they might be happier — and lose just as many pounds — if they focus on reducing fat intake instead of carbohydrates, new research suggests.

Weight-loss strategies like Atkins and South Beach promote sharply cutting carb intake so that your body burns fat for energy. These diets are known as ketogenic plans because, in the absence of carbohydrates, the liver breaks down fat into fatty acids and particles known as ketone bodies.

Short-term studies have found that low-carb diets can have positive and negative effects on mental function and mood, but little is known about how the diet affects mood in the long run. Grant D. Brinkworth, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Association in Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues randomly assigned 106 obese and overweight people to either a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet.

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7 Heart-Smart Dinners: Quick and Easy Recipes for a Healthy Heart Can mouthwatering meals be cardio-friendly?

Here’s proof: a week’s worth of family-pleasing, quick-prep suppers loaded with just the right nutrients.

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Yogurt has long been consumed for its health benefits and is a diet staple enjoyed by many cultures across the globe.  Now, experts say that yogurt may also reduce the risk of developing gum disease by as much as 60% when conpared with other dairy products.

Yogurt contains large amounts of healthy bacteria called lactobacilli, which inhibit the growth of harmful oral bugs that can lead to periodontal disease. (From IDEA Fitness Journal 10/09)

Make sure yogurt is a regular entry to your Diet Grader report. Your gum health will appreciate it.

It is pretty common sense that an unhealthy diet & lifestyle is not a good thing… yes?

Did you know an unhealthy diet & lifestyle account for at least 80% of heart disease, 90% of type 2 diabetes & 70 + % of strokes? (as posted by Sibu_Beauty)

The Point is your diet is huge when it come to a healthy vs. unhealthy lifestyle.  It is not just a gigantic piece of your more visible weight loss or weight gain goals.

Whether you utilize the Diet Grader, another tool, or simply research and discipline yourself, it really doesn’t matter.  What does matter is that you understand the significant role your diet & lifestyle play in your all around health… and act accordingly.

Hippocrates, the ancient father of western medicine, famously said: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Though modern physicians tend to rely less heavily on dietary practices to treat disease than doctors of the past, evidence is clear that for some diseases the right combination of nutrients can prove life-altering.

This was the opening paragraph to an article written by Natalie Digate Muth, M.D., M.P.H., R.D. in an ACE “Fitness Matters” journal.

While those who practice medicine, at least back to the time of Hippocrates understood the link between food consumption and health it seems to have been forgotten along the way.  Now more and more scientific studies are again proving the links between certain foods and the treatment of certain ailments.

There is continued research in many areas, but with the ongoing findings of the importance of balanced diet on optimal health, you need to utilize a tool such as the Diet Grader to evaluate and optimize your personal well-being.

When it comes to eating enough veggies and fruits, Americans are failing miserably. The CDC estimates that only 14 percent of adults and fewer than 10 percent of teenagers in the US eat three servings of vegetables and two servings of fruit on a daily basis… 5 servings is the minimum.

Fit Sugar posted the State by State ranking of how different areas in the US are doing with their own fruit and veggie servings.

Here in our State, we are apparently at 15.1%… How about where you’re from?  Do you match the averages?