'Healthy Snacks'




Super Bowl Sunday brings sports fans together. Here’s how to take control and eat healthy not guilty.

There is no question that the creamy dips, fat-laden chips, fried finger foods and super-sized sandwiches usually served at Super Bowl parties are not…

[more...]


A growing trend recently mentioned on ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson is the fortification of foods with healthy bacteria also known as probiotics.

Datamonitor identified probiotics as one of its 10 trends to watch in packaged goods
for 2008.  Probiotics are live active cultures…

[more...]


One of my favorite things to do is make an entire meal out of appetizers. Who needs soup to nuts or a large portion of a big entree when tiny bites of delicious foods await.

Mark Bittman, the Minimalist from the…

[more...]


Recent research shows that the isoflavones in soyfoods may help asthma sufferers. 

A study done at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago examined the effects of isoflavones from soy in cells and then in patients with asthma.  The…

[more...]


Okay, I admit that I was skeptical when the Funky Monkey people wanted to send me a sample of crunchy freeze-dried fruit.

I pictured something tasteless but I was wrong. Funky Monkey freeze dried fruit just might be the snack that gets…

[more...]