Great New Stuff at Healthy Eating Made Easy

Happy Healthy New Year! Did you make some healthy eating resolutions? Lots of visitors to my site are planning to eat ever more healthily this year - and quite a few would like shed a pound or two as well...it's that time of year. Here are two new articles to help you shed any extra flab, and keep your healthy-eating resolve going, right through the year.

From... New Year's tips for Healthy Eating

• So simple, so doable – eat a crisp, fresh apple every day. Apples protect against cancer, diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer’s. Better still, eat 2.
• A New Year’s question – why do you eat what you eat? If you know you turn to chocolate or potato chips when you’re bored or feeling low, resolve to divert your mind from food and look for fulfilment elsewhere. Make this the year you spend your time in other ways – with friends, on creative hobbies, exploring new interests.

• The basic truth is this: you can only lose weight if you burn more calories than you consume. To do this, you either have to eat less, exercise more or - ideally - do both.
• Rein in your consumption of refined carbohydrates - cakes, cookies, biscuits, sweets and candy.
• If you find it hard to plan healthy meals that can help you lose weight...

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Healthy Eating Survey Results

The prize draw, for a free copy of my recommended healthy eating and fitness e-book, Melt the Fat was won by Mimi in Kuwait - congratulations Mimi! If you missed out on the prize, you can still purchase a copy of the book - just click on the link above. It's packed with healthy eating plans and fitness programs - a really useful kickstart to the new year.

The survey revealed that most visitors are looking for recipes, information and tips, and that many find healthy eating a challenge. I'll be adding more material to the site over the coming months, on the subjects you told me you want to know about:

• healthy eating and exercise
• healthy eating for children...
• ...for women...
• ...and for people aged 50+

Healthy Recipe: Warming Vegetable Chilli

• Peel and chop 1 onion and soften gently in 1 tbsp olive oil.
• Add 1 crushed garlic clove and cook for another minute.
• Add 2 peeled and sliced carrots, 1 chopped red pepper, 1 chopped yellow pepper, 125g (1/2 cup)canned or frozen sweetcorn niblets, 1 can pulses such as kidney beans, borlotti beans or chick peas, drained and rinsed, 1 425g (15 oz) can choppd tomatoes, 2 medium potatoes, peeled and diced.
• Season with 1/2-1 tsp chilli powder, stir well, bring to a boil, then leave to simmer for 15-20 minutes until the carrots and potatoes are cooked.
• Serve with brown rice, and a green salad.

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Happy Healthy Eating!