OUR Healthy Eating BLOG

health and wellness

Starting Your Post Thanksgiving Diet

It’s not easy to eat healthy, or even maintain weight, while the holidays are upon us. This is why so many people get their healthy eating back on track once Thanksgiving has passed. Below are some ti...
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diabetes

Eating Right with Diabetes

Diabetes is a disorder where the body has difficulty controlling the amount of sugar in the bloodstream. Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all cases, typically develops later in...
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diabetes

National Diabetes Awareness Month

Every 23 seconds another American is diagnosed with diabetes.Every 23 seconds – that’s more than 2 people every minute. That’s a whopping 120 people every hour, 2,880-per day, 20,160-per week, 86,400-...
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health and wellness

Seattle Sutton’s Halloween Solution

Each Halloween I love to treat the little ghosts and goblins with a special treat they don’t get elsewhere. We started this Sutton family tradition more than 40 years ago, even before I started Seattl...
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health and wellness

How to Choose a Diet for Your Lifestyle

Are you considering a radical change to your diet? Or, maybe even considering trying out the latest weight loss craze you saw online? Or, perhaps thinking about cutting carbs from the diet? Unfortunat...
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other health conditions

Seattle Sutton’s Breast Cancer Message

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I am a 16-year breast cancer survivor. I am proud to wear my badge of courage, willing to share my story to help other women and their families battling th...
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health and wellness

Healthy Snacks to Eat at Work

Sometimes while at work, we work on autopilot, as well as eat on autopilot. And while snacking can be a healthy practice, many workers fall into the habit of unhealthy snacking on sweets and junk food...
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weight loss

Finding Time for Weight Loss

Weight loss is hard! One of the biggest factors making it that way is time, or rather lack thereof. Between family, work, commitments and etc., there never seems enough time in the day to make healthy...
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heart health

Sugar and Heart Disease Link

Scientists have come full circle in the last 60 years about the connection between sugar and heart disease risk. The link was uncovered at that time, however it was not disclosed, and now the link bet...
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health and wellness

Benefits of a Meal Delivery Service

Nutrition is a confusing subject for many people. There is often conflicting advice in the media as most sources try to simplify or summarize some very complicated nutrition science findings. A meal d...
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health and wellness

Avoiding Empty Calories

A calorie is defined as a unit of energy. In the same way that we put fuel into vehicles to make them run, we must also put calories into our bodies to essentially “fuel” them. Maintaining a healthy w...
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other health conditions

Obesity Linked to Eight More Cancers

It’s been long known that being overweight or obese carries an increased risk for developing cancer, and until now that list was pretty short…a total of five cancers -- colorectal, esophageal (adenoca...
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health and wellness

Tips for Healthier Grocery Shopping

Have you ever gone to the grocery store with healthy intentions, only to realize later that you’ve brought home bags filled with borderline junk food? You are not alone. Many people don’t grocery shop...
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weight loss

Can Stress Cause Weight Gain?

While the immediate response to acute stress can be a temporary loss of appetite and increased metabolism, more and more we are coming to recognize that for some people, chronic stress can be tied to...
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