30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 30 – Set a New Goal or Repeat a Missed Goal As the 30 Day Nutrition Challenge comes to an end, take a moment to reflect on your personal nutrition strengths and weaknesses. Do you do a…
30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 29 – Rainbow of Colour As the 30 Day Nutrition Challenge nears completion, your goal is to buy 1 red, 1 orange, 1 yellow, 1 green, 1 blue/purple, and 1 white vegetable or fruit when you next…
30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 28 – Cut Out Sugary Beverages Here’s another tough one. Try going one week without any “sugar-sweetened beverages”, which include: coffee or tea with sugar, regular pop, iced tea, iced cappuccinos/coffees, hot chocolate, chocolate milk, energy drinks,…
30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 27 – Snack Attack To prevent over-eating at dinner and inhaling food when you come home from work or school, packing a healthy mid-afternoon snack is critical. Think about combining a food that offers a source of…
30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 26 – Salad at Dinner Today’s goal is pretty simple. Tonight (or one night this week), include a big salad with dinner. Just go easy on the high-fat high-sodium store-bought dressing, and limit the dressing to 1-2…
30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 25 – Practice Positive Self-Talk When it comes to nutrition, weight, exercise, and appearance, people can be pretty hard on themselves. If you live with a “gremlin” in your mind that constantly tells you you’re not thin…
30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 24 – Bright Orange Vegetables & Fruit Bright orange vegetables and fruit are full of vitamin A and beta-carotene, two substances that are powerful antioxidants that protect the body’s cells against cancer. Today, shift your focus to…
30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 23 – Dark Green Vegetables Dark green vegetables contain loads of iron, calcium, folate, vitamin K, fibre, and other great things for your body. Today, make it a point to eat a dark green vegetable. Ideas include:…
30 Day Nutrition Challenge DAY 22 – New Vegetable or Fruit Purchase and eat a vegetable or fruit you haven’t had within the past 6 months. Ideas include: pomegranate, bok choy, bitter melon, radishes, beets, kamquats, pumpkin, cantaloupe, grapefruit, turnips, dandelion greens,…
This is a great article written by Yoni Freedhoff, a physician and assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa. He explores the highly debated question of how often a person should eat in a day to maintain a…