Winter Squash--Out. Summer Ones--In.

So it's been months, and perhaps feels like eons, since you last got your daily dose of vitamin D naturally— by the sun converting its precursor embedded on the surface of your skin. Slowly but surely the mercury is rising and layers are being shed but never, it seems, fast enough.

Full satisfaction will be realized only when you find yourself frolicking in the fields in nothing but your birthday suit..

    ..or am I flying solo on that one?..


But anyway, after that long-haul winter, I'm sure we all eagerly await the beautiful weather, potential hours breathing fresh air, beaches and pools, backyard/rooftop bbq's..

In hungry anticipation, the wait is over. Whether you can whip out the real outdoor grill yet or not, there's always the pan ready for the your indoor range. So tuck away the winter squash because summer squash is looking pretty good these days. All it takes is a little oil and freshly ground pepper and you're golden.



Happy Healthy Juicy Zukes!
Great source of vitamins, minerals, & fiber, low in calories to get you Speedo-ready just in time for summer.. fields!

Mango Smoothie Goodness

[Note: Out of photog practice. The pic doesn't do this justice but definitely simple & delish, or... healthybutjuicy :>]

Recipe:

Frozen mangos

Plain yogurt

Sprinkle sugar [optional]

Tad water

Brrrrrrrrrrrr.
Voila.
Proceed to slrrrrp.


Happy Healthy Juicy Smoothilicious!

And the Saga of the Food Label Continues..

Once entrepreneurs started tampering with the food supply— that's when things started to get a little tricky.

Food stopped being simply the substance that gives us energy and the nutrients we need to survive, and [rapidly] evolved into a product to sell sell sell. Forget survival of the fittest. Industry doesn't care about health fitness. It cares about financial fitness, which translates into maximizing profits, minimizing costs, and doing whatever else it takes to do just that, including constantly keeping your attention [and wallet] open, by developing new products [note: the avg. supermarket now has about 60,000 products, up from about 20,000, just decades ago], packaging, marketing, so on and so forth.

In efforts to somehow manage and regulate this crazy food processing, which continues full-force today, the food label was born— telling us what's in an unnatural, unrecognizable, processed food and some key nutrient information, including:

• Calories
  
• Fat [unsaturated, saturated, trans]
  
• Cholesterol
  
• Sodium
  
• Potassium
  
• Carbs
  
• Fiber
  
• Sugar
  
• Protein
  
• Calcium
  
• Iron
  
• Vitamins A and C
  
• Ingredients in descending order by weight

Phew. That's a lot of really useful information on nearly every packaged food you can lay your hands on.

But forget all that. In the next few months, food makers [will] devise [their] own label plan, which consists of listing calories, saturated fat, sodium, and sugar on the front of packages, with the option to include [ahem, market] one or two more 'positive' ingredients as well, such as fiber.


Is the food industry really making genuine efforts to help consumers make healthier choices, as they claim?

And, more importantly, will consumers know how to use this new label plan any more effectively than what is on packages already?

And note: to say that the current food label is hidden, is bogus [or, complete BS]. Think for a minute: Do children have a difficult time finding games on their cereal boxes? [Case and point.]

Like an unknown foreign language, you can present the same information in a million different ways, but you still need an education or translator.

Happy Healthy Juicy $50 Million for Nutrition Education Just Might Prove More Effective Than Advertising This Initiative!

Study Finds Children Are Unhealthy For Our Diet

A recent study published in the European Review of Agricultural Economics found that 'presence of children in a household has a negative impact on dietary quality.'

This included lower intakes of fruits and vegetables, and higher intakes of dairy products, cereal, and potatoes.

It's time we stop feeding our kids like this:




And learn to feed them like this:




Because not only are they becoming like this:




But so are we.




Happy Healthy Juicy The Children Are NOT To Blame! We Must Do [Eat & Learn] Better!

Jennifer Connelly Finds Excuse to Become Garbage Disposal: Pregnancy

People.com reports Jennifer Connelly is pregnant with her third child.

In an interview with David Letterman, she talks about the 'nausea' during her early pregnancy, which, frankly, is nauseating itself.

She said,

“I have to stand in one spot in my apartment to make a phone call. It was like that with the nausea..

I had to stand in one spot, which happened to be in front of my refrigerator, which was open, with me dipping pretzels in cream cheese and stuffing them in my mouth,” she laughs. “If I did that, I was good.”

Ugh. Again, case and point, Gisele Bundchen called it: Pregnancy, for many, is synonymous with 'garbage disposal'.







I guess that's just the 'right' some of these women give themselves when growing another human being inside their bodies after slaving [or whittling] away to Hollywood diets otherwise.










Happy Healthy Juicy, My Goodness, That's Your Child In There, If Anything, You Should Be Eating Better!