Heathier Snack alternatives List and other features

Danger zone:                                             Healthier Alternatives:

Candy Bars and Candy.................................Fruit bars, nutri-grain bars, energy bars

Fruit Punch and Fruit Juice cocktails...........Home made natural shakes or lemonade

Arificial Iced Tea...............................................Home made Herbal Iced Tea from bags

Sweetened cereals........................................Non-sweetened cornflakes or Wholegrain

Artificial Sweet tea from bag.......................Homemade natural sweet tea with honey

Salty chips.........................................................All natural Martins potato chips or low sodium


Check out my links to my favorite and recommended work out videos, such as Belly Dancing workouts from Meena and Veena, posted on my article "Staying Active"




Healthier Snack Alternatives are surprisingly tasty and good for you too!

Energizing Foods- You can get metabolism-boosting caffeine in coffee and black tea! As if you needed another reason to love your coffee. Just be careful not to load them up with milk, cream or sugar. Green Tea doesn't have that much caffeine but does contain catechins (an anti-oxidant that raises resting metabolism by 4%-about 80 calories per day) Dark chocolate contains both catechins and caffeine, but stick to 1 oz. per day to limit fat and calories.

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Avoid: There are some foods that you might be chewing on right now that you probably didn't know will be stored as extra fat, even if you didn't overeat. According to "Prevention" consultants, "refined and Sugary foods take ZERO calories to digest (making it possible to be stored as fat immediatly.) Check packaged foods for added sugar that goes by other names most ending with -OSE. Fructose, Maltose, and sucrose, and really try to reduce them from your diet".