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At this website you'll find tips and fact sheets about various nutrition topics. Track your food journals on EATracker and find out how your diet stacks up! All this can be accessed by clicking on Eat Well Live Well.

Develop your own recipes? Interested in the nutritional content of a serving size? Use Recipe Analyzer to assess your recipes and learn how to modify recipes into a healthier alternative.

www.ontario.ca/eatright

Eat Right Ontario is a free government service where you can access nutritional resources, recipes and My Menu Planner for meal ideas meeting your nutritional needs.

www.hc-sc.gc.ca

Health Canada has a section of its website dedicated to Food and Nutrition. Keep up to date on food labelling laws and food safety issues. You can order a copy of Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide and Nutrient Value of Some Common Foods. These tools can help you keep track of your intake and make healthy choices.

http://medlineplus.gov/

Medline encyclopedia is a user friendly website that quickly answers you medical questions from A-Z.

www.calorieking.com

Calorieking.com has a large food search database that quickly tells you the nutrition information of many of your favourite meals and foods.

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2006-2008 Archives

Deceptively Delicious By Jessica Seinfeld

This cookbook is meant to be an answer to any mother’s prayers of wanting her kids to eat vegetables. The author, Jessica Seinfeld, has taken a simple concept of pureeing cooked vegetables and disguising them in recipes through mixing, breading or incorporating them into tried and true kids favourites like Mac & cheese or chicken nuggets. Although this book offers ways to introduce vegetables in your kids’ or family’s diet, be sure not to over indulge in the dessert section. There are many layers to good nutrition, and filling up on white flour and sugar isn’t necessarily a good trade off for a little bit of pureed veg.

Here are my comments on some of the recipes our family tried.
Breaded tofu or chicken nuggets (with broccoli). – The author’s secret to incorporating pureed broccoli is to coat the chicken or tofu into the pureed broccoli before breading. It took a few attempts to perfect the coating to be sure the broccoli actually adhered to the chicken or tofu. When successful these tasty nuggets have only a hint of broccoli flavour for those who are weary.

Chocolate cupcakes (with avocado) – Seinfeld has replaced vegetable oil in a traditional cupcake recipe with avocado puree. Avocado contains vitamin E and heart smart unsaturated fat. By using ingredients such as skim milk and egg whites there is no other added fat. The muffins prepared as the recipe suggests provides 240 calories, 4g fat (before icing) and 27g sugar. My suggestion is to prepare 24 mini-cupcakes instead of the suggested 12 regular cupcakes to make it an acceptable (portion) sweet treat.

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
By Brian Wansink Ph.D

Published by: Bantam Dell, 2006 $33.00 hardcover

Mindless Eating is a book that uses research, logic and strategies to empower the reader to manage their eating habits and their weight. Brian Wansink offers practical examples in a number of areas which influence eating behaviours, such as our environment, our upbringing and our moods.

Chapters 7 & 8 give a glimpse into human nature and discuss emotional eating and comfort foods, as well as unhealthy ways people use food as a tool for comfort, reward, guilt and punishment. Chapter 10 offers a useful tool to help break old habits. These are important chapters for people struggling with emotional eating and committing to lifestyle changes.

Mindless Eating is an easy read that offers practical advice that can be incorporated into one’s lifestyle.

Fast Food Nation: Do you want lies with that?
By Eric Schlosser

Published by: Harper Perennial, 2001. $18.95 paperback

Fast Food Nation is a book that describes the conception and growth of the fast food industry throughout the past 60 years. It is both interesting and disturbing. The insights into the political and business practices of the fast food industry, especially the meat packing industry, can be difficult to swallow. Schlosser touches on everything from working conditions and animal welfare to flavour enhancers and E.coli contamination.

Buyer beware that reading Fast Food Nation will likely have you think twice about the meat you eat and can awaken the vegetarian in you. This book at the very least will make for a more informed consumer and if Schlosser has been successful, will encourage people to stop buying fast food until the industry makes radical changes that will benefit the health, welfare and environment for animals and people alike.