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Healthy Eating Tip: Choose Cereals With Fiber

Oct 10 2008 - 8:00am by FitSugar
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Healthy Eating Tip: Choose Cereals With Fiber I think the easiest breakfast option in the world is a bowl of cereal. But just because it is an easy option, doesn't mean it has to be unhealthy. I like starting my day off with a cereal that is high in fiber; it helps keep me full and helps me reach the recommended 30 gram mark for daily intake of fiber.
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Diet Tip: Eat Fiber-Rich Foods Throughout the Day

Jun 4 2008 - 1:00pm by FitSugar
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Diet Tip: Eat Fiber-Rich Foods Throughout the Day If you're trying to lose weight, you're probably modifying your diet and eating fewer calories than you burn. If this causes you to feel hungry, then you're going to end up eating those missing calories and not be able to reach your goal. To quell that hunger feeling, you want to make the calories that you do eat count.
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How Do You Get Your Fiber?

Jun 2 2008 - 9:00am by FitSugar
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How Do You Get Your Fiber? To reap all the great benefits of fiber, you should get about 30 grams a day. You can eat vegetables and fruits that are naturally high in fiber, or look for with fiber-fortified foods like yogurt. Some people even take fiber supplements such as Fiber Choice.
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Diet Tip: Eat Fruit Instead of Drinking It

May 14 2008 - 4:00pm by FitSugar
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Diet Tip: Eat Fruit Instead of Drinking It If you're trying to lose weight, when choosing between fruit and fruit juice, stick with fruit. The whole fruit not only offers more fiber than fruit juice, it contains fewer calories as well. Eating fiber not only prevents certain types of cancers and keeps you regular, but it also helps fill you up so you're less likely to eat as many calories.
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Nutritional Quiz: Fiber and Fruit

May 8 2008 - 10:00am by FitSugar
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Nutritional Quiz: Fiber and Fruit You all know that you should be eating at least 5 servings of fruit and veggies a day and some health practitioners even suggest upwards of nine servings. One of the benefits of fruit is that it contains fiber. You should be eating about 30 grams a day of fiber, so which fruits contain the most?
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Diet Tip: Choose Wet Snacks

May 8 2008 - 8:00am by FitSugar
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Diet Tip: Choose Wet Snacks I know it is easy to reach for chips, crackers or pretzels when you're experiencing a snack attack. Those crunchy carbs are easy to find. But here's a habit to try on for size, go out of your way to find a "wet" snack.
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Diet Tip: Focus on What You Can Add to Your Meals

Apr 29 2008 - 1:00pm by FitSugar
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Diet Tip: Focus on What You Can Add to Your Meals When dieting, it's hard not to fixate on the unhealthy foods you should avoid. Many women who diet choose to eliminate soda, salty foods, dessert, high-fat foods, and huge servings. This can make you really depressed, and it often leads to binging on the forbidden foods you crave or can make you go back to your unhealthy eating habits.
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Food Review: Snacktrition Nuts

Apr 15 2008 - 8:00am by FitSugar
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Food Review: Snacktrition Nuts Companies have been enhancing common foods for a while now. They add calcium to orange juice, omega-3s to yogurt, and caffeine to energy drinks. I don't have a problem with any of these products, and think they're great for people who want more from their food.
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Label Able: Inulin

Apr 9 2008 - 7:30am by FitSugar
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Label Able: Inulin I admit that I'm a huge label reader and I've even been re-reading labels from foods I've been enjoying for years. Before working out, I was chomping on a Luna Bar and in the list of ingredients, I saw inulin. So what is it?
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You Asked: Fiber Per Meal — Is There a Limit?

Feb 27 2008 - 8:30am by FitSugar
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You Asked: Fiber Per Meal — Is There a Limit? A while back, I did a post about the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber and received this great question: Is there a recommended amount that you shouldn't go over in one meal? Like I know the body can only absorb so much calcium at one time, I wonder if it's that way for fiber. I know it's always better to spread things out, but I was just wondering if there was an actual number that I shouldn't be going over in case my body doesn't process it all.