Healthy eating habits
Recommendations for adopting healthy eating habits.
Healthy eating
Healthy eating, regardless of your age, is one of the best ways to improve your health
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Savour your food
Pay attention to the meal you are eating. Remove distractions and take time to eat.
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Water, the drink of choice to stay hydrated
There is no healthier drink.
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Highly processed foods
Processing methods can increase the amount of fat, sugar and sodium in food.
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Understanding food labels
Food labels are a good way to find out about the nutritional value of foods. They can help you make smart food choices
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Fish consumption and health
Fish is rich in minerals, such as selenium and iodine, an excellent source of protein and the best food source of natural vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids.
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Prenatal nutrition
Pregnant people must have a healthy diet because their bodies experience major changes throughout pregnancy.
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Infant and newborn nutrition
The birth of a baby is a joyful event that brings up a lot of questions, especially with regard to nutrition.
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Children and nutrition
From the time they are born and throughout childhood, children gradually discover the different smells, textures and flavours of foods.
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Nutrition for seniors
Make sure that you include a variety of nutritious food in your meals and snacks
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Healthy lifestyle habits
Healthy lifestyle habits keep you in good health, improve your quality of life and help prevent many illnesses.
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Hi Kim,
I concur with you regarding Kate Atkinson…I am anxious to read her latest too. I have a few authors I always enjoy–Laura Lippman, Daniel Silva, and a few others. I love when you discover someone new and you can’t wait to read his/her next book.
Hi Deborah – Thanks for the Lippman recommendation – I’m intrigued by her latest book but I haven’t read anything by her before. I think I’ve read almost all of Anita Shreve’s books too but I got tired of them.
I like anything by Malcolm Gladwell, “The Tipping Point”, “Blink”, “Outliers”,
I tend to pick up non-fiction and like biographies so will have to find “I am Ozzy” – also libraries have more biographies, I liked the Frida Kahlo biography.
Hi Nancy – I see Gladwell’s books all the time but I haven’t read any of them. Sometimes bios of people you don’t think you would be interested in end up being really fun. Is there a new Frida Kahlo? Louisa May Alcott and Hans Christian Anderson were really interesting ones too.
China Mieville is the only author on your list that I’ve read. I also greatly enjoyed Perdido Street Station and Un lun dun was not bad. My husband is currently reading The city & the city and he’s not that crazy about it. At least he hasn’t sold it to me, in the same way as he did Perdido…
I’ll have to take a look at the other authors you mention. Kate Atkinson and Alice Hoffman sound interesting.
I’m probably stating the obvious and I think that we’ve discussed this before, I love Neil Gaiman, but my all time favourite book has to be The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s a trilogy, so it’s a bit long, but it’s absolutely fabulous.
Hi Christine – I’ve read almost everything by Neil Gaiman so I guess I could have put him on this list. I love the Sandman comics and American Gods but I don’t love all of his stuff.
I read something by Kay a long time ago – I don’t remember what it was but I remember liking it – since, you recommended that trilogy, I will definitely check it out.
I’m enjoying Kraken quite a bit – not as much as Perdido Street Station but A LOT more than The City & the City.
Thanks — I haven’t read any of these authors. I’m looking forward to checking out some of their books.
Right now, I’m reading The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon. She’s a local author (to me — she’s in New West) and is the story of Aristotle’s tutoring of young Alexander the Great.
I really enjoyed both of Sara Gruen’s books “Water for Elephants” (don’t hold that there’s a movie against it) and “Ape House”.
I also agree with Nancy. Anything by Malcolm Gladwell (except “What the Dog Brought In” — still trying to get through it) is smoothly written and offers a unique perspective on commonly-held beliefs.
Hi Candrina – Books are always better than the movie. I really enjoyed Water for Elephants but haven’t read her other book. I am not interested in the film at all.
Michael Connelly, Sue Grafton, John D. MacDonald, Nero Wolfe. The last two are deceased, so no new ones. You might like John D. MacD. He also wrote about the ecologic losses in Florida as a backdrop to his detective stories, a generation before Hiiasen. There’s no wackiness, but they’re good.
Hi Dot – Thanks for the recommendations. I’m actually not that into mysteries and until the last couple of years never read them. I like the wackiness part of Hiaasen’s books more than the mystery part.
(Ozzy Osbourne reads Shakespeare would be cool.)
And I agree with Dotraft – Grafton’s great.
A friend of mine has a GPS in his car that is Ozzy’s voice – it’s hilarious.
Terry Pratchett. Sly, daffy, clever, endlessly inventive. The Discworld novels are an institiution.
I like Pratchett but not as much as I think I should – I’ve read a couple though and intend to read more.
Hi Kim Woodbridge,
This is really very good and helpful article for neophyte readers. I haven’t tried any of these authors. And I am definitely going to try them.Thanks for the suggestions.
Hi Shivam – Hope you find something that you like.
I’m always looking for new books! I’ll have to put these on authors on the read list. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Tawnya – Great! Let me know if you find anything you like.
The only author who has ever made me want to read EVERYTHING is John Irving. My first from him is still my all-time fave – A Prayer for Owen Meany. (I think it should be required reading in High School English classes, since it would be a wonderful teaching tool v.v. common literary tools like foreshadowing). I then moved on to Garp (loved it!) and then just kept going. His stories are always a little bit… warped?? LOL! …but holy crap what a wonderful storyteller he is! :-)
Thanks for sharing your favorite authors – I will certainly look them up!
Mark
Thanks for the recommendation. The only book I’ve read by him is The Hotel New Hampshire, which I think I liked – I read it a long time ago.
Hello, my first to get here via Danny Brown’s blog. I loved your reads here in your blog. Definitely I will learn a lot here. Thanks for sharing your good stuff.
The authors in this article are new to me except Alice Hoffman. I loved Alice’s books and as always I get to read some of her best books.
I believe, in the list are great authors or maybe my favorite author who is Joshua Harris is isn’t that great yet. Yeah, I just love the way Joshua instill his wisdom in his books.
Thank you Kim. I will surely come back here.
Alice Hoffman is great – I can’t put her books down.
Thanks for visiting!
HA – stopped in for WordPress help and you’ve got a post about my favorite activity :) If you like Hiassen, have you tried some of Elmore Leonards stuff? Living in FL I gravitate toward a lot of those (although lately I’m on a YA kick :-p) As a single mom of a 7 y/o I tell myself I’m simply previewing on his behalf.
Hi Carol Ann – I’ve read one or two of Leonard’s books – I didn’t really get into them but I should probably give him another try.
There is a lot of great stuff in the YA area these days.
Well, there are not any authors that are my favorite, but I think I will share my own favorite authors with you:
Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad)
Bodo Schefer (author of The Way To The Financial Freedom)
Tony Robbins
Thanks for the recommendations. I do tend to read mostly fiction but I’ll check those out.
Hi Kim –
I recently finished Embassytown, which I enjoyed more than City and the City. Nothing has quite hit like Perdido though. I think he’s sort of going through every type of urban/city he can think of. I *really* liked UnLunDun, but I’m a sucker for YA books.
Gaiman – Anansi Boys is my favorite prose novel, although he is on my read all books by him list (including graphic novels – Sandman my all time favorite GN). BTW, if you are leaning towards Pratchett, you won’t go wrong with the Pratchett/Gaiman joint of Good Omens. It’s like a modern fantasy Hitchhiker’s Guide.
If you are open to Graphic Novels, I recommend Fables by Bill Willingham and mostly Mark Buckingham; anything by Alan Moore; most anything by Warren Ellis (he’s stretching the boundaries of SF Comics); Finder by Carla Speed McNeil.
I also second the recommendation by the person who mentioned Rex Stout – Nero Wolfe is an amazing character, but he’s nothing without his Archie Goodwin.
Finally, since this post has gotten soooo long, I’ll close by saying thank you for your “What Should I read Next” posts – I think I”ll sign up for BookArmy because hopefully hopefully hopefully (!) they will have a function where you can sign up by author’s name and receive a press release or notification when a new book by them comes out.
Pax et Liber – chris
Hi Chris,
I started Embassytown but didn’t really get into it so I might give it another try later. I think I’ve read everything by Gaiman except some of his short stories – I think I like American Gods the best. And I love Fables! I’m just a few volumes behind so they haven’t been on my list this year. Telltale Games is going to be making games of them. http://www.telltalegames.com/fables