Diet and Food Options

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds for Halloween

Happy Fall and Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you are all excited about this year’s fall festivities. Tonight myself, my daughter, and my wife carved a pumpkin in preparation for Halloween night! Something very cool that you can do with those crazy pumpkin seeds is roasting them! That’s right. This year I decided to be a food explorer and put those crazy seeds to good use. The recipe forroasted pumpkin seeds is not too hard either. Check out the easy recipe that I used to make some delicious roasted pumpkin seeds. Not only that, they are good for you too! Recipe for Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds, of course 🙂 (1 1/2 cups raw) 1 pinch salt 2...

posted on: Oct 29, 2012 | author: Bob Sharpe

Bad Ingredients

Could Bad Ingredients be the source of health problems and weight issues? When I first got into fitness and health, I really wasn’t too sure about diet. I would hap-hazardly determine what to eat based on what “looked good” on the Nutrition Facts on the back of my favorite box of foods. It wasn’t until recently I realized that there are bad ingredientsÂ that are the source of most of the issues, even though they don’t make up for the problems noted in the Nutrition Facts. What does this mean? Simply put, you could have a Candy Bar that has 2% Total Fat, 0% Saturated and Trans Fat, which looks good. But then, you look at the ingredients and...

posted on: May 1, 2012 | author: Bob Sharpe

Cravings for Sweets – Stop Craving Sweets and Feel Healthier!...

Stop Craving Sugar! – Cravings for Sweets explained Isn’t this something we all struggle with? I mean, c’mon, there isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t sometimes crave sweets. I’ve been doing a lot of research on what the big deal is with these undesirable cravings. I know that if you’re like me, there are times that you are on a war path to try and find something….really, anything, that will satisfy that sweet tooth! But then, when you finally find something that satisfies your sweet tooth, whether it was a piece of cake, a Hershey’s candy bar, or a cup of Starbucks Coffee, the guilt and shame of either eating bad the bad sweet, that...