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Nutrition At Your Fingertips
No nonsense - just the cold, hard,
nutrition facts from a PENGUIN you can trust.
 Nutrition At Your Fingertips, Feed Your Family Right!, and
So What Can I Eat?!
available at a BIG discount at Amazon; also available at
Barnes & Noble, Borders
or wherever books are sold.
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Greetings!
Hope you're all having a great start to your week. I want to take a moment to thank you for all your continued support of The ZIED GUIDE™ newsletter. I'm still new at this, and appreciate all of you who have approached me in person or via email to tell me how much you enjoy it each week, and that makes me smile! Thank you! I also appreciate all of you who have sent ideas or questions for me to answer here or in my videos, blogs, or articles. Please keep them coming! Below you'll find a new GALTime video to help you be a smarter snacker, and a link to my new caloriecount.com blog on how to work with the family genes you're born with. You'll also read about the new Moderation Nation initiative that is making headlines. Have a great week, and please take some time today and every day to take care of yourself!! Elisa |
 Why it's Not Good to OD on
Healthy Snacks
If you're like most Americans, you
snack at least 2 or 3 times a day. But even if you choose healthful snacks, you may get yourself into some trouble in terms of calories.
Here's my one minute GALTime video tip to help you make the most of your "healthy" snacks.
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In The ZIED GUIDE™:
Move Over Deprivation...Will Moderation Be the New Diet Mantra?
How do you define "moderation?" A new joint program by the American Dietetic Association & the Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition strives to teach the moderation concept to millions of Americans to help them eat more healthfully. Learn more about the program (and weigh in with your own thoughts) in my new ZIED GUIDE™ post.
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How to Fit Into Your Family Genes
If
you're like me and grew up in an overweight family, you may believe
that you were destined to be overweight as well. Despite the countless
hours at the gym, you may still
think that
losing weight and keeping it off wasn't possible. At the very least, you
may
have resolved that even if you put your heart and soul into eating
better and
less, and moving more, you still wouldn't have the thin thighs, flat
abs, and
perfectly toned bum you secretly longed for.
Although more than
6,000 genes that contribute to
body weight have been identified, they're not the only things that have a
say in how much you weigh. Your environment and how you choose to live
The
environment also plays a key role. According to Dr. David Katz, director of Yale University's Prevention
Research Center, "practicing a healthful lifestyle-consuming healthful
foods and getting enough daily physical activity is a great way to nurture
nature, and compensate for weight-promoting and other unhealthy genes."
To help families learn to manage their genes, I wrote Feed Your
Family Right: How to Make Smart Food and Fitness Choices for a Healthy
Lifestyle (Wiley, 2007). In the book, I outline ways to help
readers create food and fitness plans and goals
based on each family member's unique calorie and nutrient needs, tastes
and
preferences, and lifestyle. I use these strategies with my own sons
(they're 12 and 8 years old) to empower them so that they'll grow to be
healthy, mindful,
and active adults.
For 5 of my top tips to help your family fit into your genes, read my blog post at caloriecount.com.
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About Elisa
Elisa Zied, MS, RD, CDN is the founder/president of Zied Health Communications, LLC. She's a regular contributor for both MSNBC.com's Chew on This column and GALTime.com, an online women's magazine. She's also a regular guest blogger for CalorieCount.com. She's the author of three highly acclaimed books including Nutrition At Your Fingertips (Alpha, 2009), Feed Your Family Right! (Wiley, 2007), and So What Can I Eat?! (Wiley, 2006), co-authored with Ruth Winter, MS. Elisa's work has appeared in Parents, Woman's Day, Redbook, Seventeen, and Weight Watchers Magazine. A past spokesperson for 6 years for the American Dietetic Association, Elisa is frequently quoted in publications including People, Prevention, Self, Health, Fitness, Parents, Parenting, Real Simple, Glamour, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. She has also appeared on dozens of national and local television programs including CBS's The Early Show and The Today Show. Visit her at elisazied.com.
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