One Food You Should Always Pack When Traveling
By Craig Ballantyne
When you are traveling, despite your best intentions, it isn't easy to eat "right." However, there is one portable, healthy snack you can count on. It not only fits into any bag without spoiling or getting crushed, it is readily available, even in airports and gas stations.
I'm talking about raw almonds.
Almonds lower cholesterol, help with weight loss, give you fiber, protein, and monounsaturated fats, and fill you up. Plus, recent research from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto showed that almonds minimize the negative effects of a processed carbohydrate meal - something you are bound to eat when you are on the road.
In this study, men and women ate 50 grams of white bread, along with one, two, or three ounces of almonds. (A one-ounce serving is about 22 almonds.) Adding the almonds to the white bread prevented the rapid spike in blood sugar caused by eating white bread alone. Essentially, adding almonds to the white bread produced a low-glycemic meal. And, as you know from reading ETR, low-glycemic foods don't affect your blood sugar levels the way high-glycemic foods do.
So stock up on almonds and make them your snack of choice - especially when you're traveling and concerned about damage being done to your health by the restaurant food you're eating.
[Ed. Note: Craig Ballantyne is an expert consultant for Men's Health magazine.]
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It's Fun to Know: About Visiting the Grand Canyon
Since March, tourists have been able to see the Grand Canyon in an entirely new way thanks to some creative engineering. A glass-bottomed, curved walkway extends 75 feet over the rim, 4,000 feet above the canyon floor. The impoverished Hualapai tribe at the canyon's western edge allowed a private developer to build the attraction, hoping to bring in tourist revenue.
(Source: Associated Press)
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Word to the Wise: Meme
A "meme" (MEEM) - from the Greek for "memory" - is a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation).
Example (as used by Seth Godin in his blog): "Is [the desire to have more] some sort of character flaw? A defective meme in the system of mankind?"
Michael Masterson
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These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #2050, 05-24-07], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
When you are traveling, despite your best intentions, it isn't easy to eat "right." However, there is one portable, healthy snack you can count on. It not only fits into any bag without spoiling or getting crushed, it is readily available, even in airports and gas stations.
I'm talking about raw almonds.
Almonds lower cholesterol, help with weight loss, give you fiber, protein, and monounsaturated fats, and fill you up. Plus, recent research from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto showed that almonds minimize the negative effects of a processed carbohydrate meal - something you are bound to eat when you are on the road.
In this study, men and women ate 50 grams of white bread, along with one, two, or three ounces of almonds. (A one-ounce serving is about 22 almonds.) Adding the almonds to the white bread prevented the rapid spike in blood sugar caused by eating white bread alone. Essentially, adding almonds to the white bread produced a low-glycemic meal. And, as you know from reading ETR, low-glycemic foods don't affect your blood sugar levels the way high-glycemic foods do.
So stock up on almonds and make them your snack of choice - especially when you're traveling and concerned about damage being done to your health by the restaurant food you're eating.
[Ed. Note: Craig Ballantyne is an expert consultant for Men's Health magazine.]
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It's Fun to Know: About Visiting the Grand Canyon
Since March, tourists have been able to see the Grand Canyon in an entirely new way thanks to some creative engineering. A glass-bottomed, curved walkway extends 75 feet over the rim, 4,000 feet above the canyon floor. The impoverished Hualapai tribe at the canyon's western edge allowed a private developer to build the attraction, hoping to bring in tourist revenue.
(Source: Associated Press)
______________________________
Word to the Wise: Meme
A "meme" (MEEM) - from the Greek for "memory" - is a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation).
Example (as used by Seth Godin in his blog): "Is [the desire to have more] some sort of character flaw? A defective meme in the system of mankind?"
Michael Masterson
__________________________________________________
These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #2050, 05-24-07], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
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