Tag: Health

  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Daily Healthy Recipes by Melanie Albert: Smoothie Mise en Place

    by Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, speaker, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    As I sit here late tonight with the beautiful full moon above my home in Phoenix, with a beautiful cloud ring around it, I really want to be outside looking forward to the Super Blue Blood Moon. Thus, tonight’s blog will be very short.

    This morning while making my Superfood Smoothie, I realized that I actually almost always set up my “mise en place” when I cook, prepare, and plate food. Even with today’s smoothie, I mindfully put my ingredients into place before “plating” (if you want to call it plating) my smoothie.

    My Smoothie Mise en Place

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    Today’s Superfood Smoothie

    Excerpt from “A New View of Healthy Eating”

    Mise en Place: Be Organized When You Cook

    Mise en Place (French pronunciation: [mi zɑ̃ ˈplas]) is a French phrase that means “putting in place,” as in “setting up.”

    Mise en Place is used in the kitchen to “set up” all the ingredients needed to prepare a dish before we start cooking. The purpose is to be organized when we cook, with everything ready so that it’s easier to cook. Mise en Place is a useful cooking technique to incorporate when you are cooking in your kitchen for both complex and simple recipes.

    With the Mise en Place concept, before we start cooking we get all the ingredients ready, sliced, diced, measured, and organized. To be super organized, we can even set up our ingredients in order of use in the cooking process, which is especially beneficial when cooking a fast-paced meal like a stir-fry or a recipe with a lot of ingredients.

    4 Reasons to Love Mise en Place 

    1. Be prepared and calm. You will not be scrambling around your kitchen during the middle of the cooking process, looking for that one ingredient you really need. Also, you will be so organized that you won’t need to rush out to purchase a missing ingredient.
    2. Cook when cooking. You will not need to quickly chop food you might have forgotten about right in the middle of the cooking process. You will mindfully enjoy cooking your meal.
    3. Save time. As an example, if you are mincing onions or garlic for several dishes, you can mince them at the same time while setting up your Mise en Place.
    4. Cook mindfully and clutter-free. Cooking is much more enjoyable in a neat, clutter-free environment. Your cooking process will be mindful and beautiful when you cook in an organized fashion.

    ACTION: I invite you to use the Mise en Place process when you cook to bring more mindfulness, organization, and calm to your cooking. Would love to see your Mise en Place photos on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/NewViewHealthyEating

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  • Confusion about What to Eat: Too Many Food Pyramids and Dietary Theories

    by Melanie Albert, Nutrition expert & author, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition

    Today, there are so many different food pyramids and 100’s of different dietary theories; no wonder people are confused about what to eat.

    Come on over to Facebook and share your experiences with different ways of eating  www.facebook.com/9Ways90Days

    Too Many Food Pyramids & Diets
    Too Many Food Pyramids & Diets

     

    Some Food Pyramids available include:

    • USDA My PlateTM
    • Harvard School of Public Health
    • Andrew Weil, MD Anti-inflammatory
    • Mediterranean Oldways
    • Michio Kushi Macrobiotic
    • Atkins
    • Okinawa
    • Vegan
    • Paleo
    • South Beach
    •  Zone
    • DASH
    • Biggest Loser
    • American Heart Association
    • American Diabetes Association
    • Dr. Furham’s Nutritarian

    100s’ of Dietary Theories

    In addition to confusion with so many different food pyramids, 100’s of dietary theories are in the media. A few of the current dietary theories include:

    • 3-Season
    • 5 Element
    • Abs Diet
    • Anti-Aging
    • Atkins
    • Ayurveda
    • Blood Type
    • Body Ecology
    • Calorie Restriction
    • Curves
    • DASH
    • Dorm Room Diet
    • Dr. Phil’s Diet
    • Dukan
    • Eat More Weigh Less by Dr. Dean Ornish
    • Engine 2
    • Fat Flush
    • French Women Don’t Get Fat
    • Gluten-Free
    • Glycemic Index
    • High-Carbohydrate
    • High-Protein
    • Jenny Craig
    • LA Weight Loss
    • Low-Carb
    • Low-Fat
    • Low-Protein
    • Macrobiotics
    • Maker’s Diet
    • Master Cleanse
    • Mayo Clinic
    • Mediterranean
    • Metabolic Typing
    • Okinawa
    • Perricone Prescription
    • Plant-Based
    • Pritikin
    • Raw Food
    • Sonomaa
    • South Beach
    • Traditional Chinese Medicine
    • Vegan
    • Vegetarian
    • Volumetrics
    • Wheat Belly
    • Zone Diet

  • Our Country is Sick & Confused About Food

    by Melanie Albert, Nutrition & Food Expert & Author, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition

    America is Sick & Confused about What to Eat
    America is Sick & Confused about What to Eat

    America is Sick & Confused about Food. Our country is sick with epidemic levels of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes and many live in pain. An estimated 45 million people are on diets each year. The food in our country has changed dramatically with processed food and fast food over the last 50 years. Many in our country today do not eat at home and do not know how to cook. People are also confused about what to eat. There are so many different food pyramids and 100s of different dietary theories in the media.

    Status of Health in America Today. There are huge problems in our country today. Our country is sick with epidemic levels of obesity, heart disease and diabetes with many people living in pain. An estimated 45% of people are on diets, which do not work.  Even professional athletes experience many of the same health concerns as the general public.

    Growth of Processed Foods. The food in the U.S. has changed dramatically with the consumption of processed foods and fast foods negatively affecting the health of our nation. McDonald’s opened in the U.S. in 1955 and today one-fourth of the population of our country eats fast food every day. Furthermore, Americans eat 31 percent more packaged food than fresh food, and they consume more packaged food per person than their counterparts in nearly all other countries.

    Changed Eating Habits. In addition to the food eaten in the U.S., people’s eating habits have changed dramatically. Today, people are eating while watching television, driving or working and many do not know the basics of eating at home.

     Confusion About Shopping and Preparing Food. People are so accustomed to eating out, eating on the run, grabbing quick processed foods or microwaving a meal, that we have lost our skill of shopping for and preparing real food.

  • Enjoy Food & Life: 9 Ways 90 Days Step-by-step Action Plan for Healthy Eating & Living

    9 Ways 90 Days Step-by-step Action Plan for Healthy Eating & Living, by nutrition and food expert, Melanie Albert, featuring former NFL players.

    NEW BOOK: January 2014

    9 Ways 90 Days Step-by-step action plan for healthy eating & living
    9 Ways 90 Days Step-by-step action plan for healthy eating & living

    9 Ways 90 Days Action Plan is based on the successful program which positively affects the health and nutrition of former NFL players and their families. The book offers nutrition education with a simple step-by-step action plan to integrate good nutrition with a healthy lifestyle into life. The program is designed to help you achieve good nutrition and health to reach your personal goals, including reducing the risk of heart disease and diabetes, weight loss, reducing joint pain, increasing energy and reducing stress. 

    Our country is sick and people are confused. They are confused about what to eat, how to shop and how to prepare healthy food. The 9 Ways 90 Days Action Plan, created from sound science and a variety of nutrition theories with hands-on interactive learning and cooking experiences, is a solution to these problems. It also includes simple ways to prepare easy meals with recipes, nutritionrecommendations, and the 9 Ways 90 Days Action Plan to incorporate learning into life.