My husband and I recently had the pleasure of dining at the wonderful italian restaurant in the mountains of Boulder Creek, Scopazzi’s. The menu is both delicious and has an array of healthy options including range fed beef and veal.
The service is incredible and the staff is both friendly and helpful when it comes to customizing your food selection to make it more health conscious. I for one will be going back here very soon!
I recently viewed the website http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/20-Worst-Foods/1_The_Worst_Food_in_America.php
which gives a list of the twenty worst foods we can eat. The list includes worst drink, worst pasta dish, worst mexican entree, and worst “healthy” burger. It is shocking to see the amount of calories, fat and sodium in foods that actually sound like they wouldn’t be half bad for you. No wonder obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes are such a big problem. We are eating not only nutritionally devoid foods, but foods that are extremely harmful to our health!
The conclusion I take from this: eat anything that you don’t make yourself with caution! No restaurant can be trusted at face value. Do not assume that the food you order isn’t full of hidden health hazards (in fact, assume that it is!). If you eat out regularly, it’s time to start quizzing your servers–find out what the foods are cooked in, what ingredients are in sauces and ask if nutrition info is available. Get sauces and dressings on the side and ask that the cooks not add salt to your food (won’t work for pre-made dishes)–you can add your own if needed.
Make these precautions a habit and pretty soon, you will have narrowed down which foods and restaurants are safe as well as tasty.
I recently read that, according to some new studies, combining capers with meat makes one healthy duo. Turns out that capers improve our antioxidant power (by improving our bodies’ use of Vitamin E) and also beef up (pun intended) our bodies’ ability to clean up toxins and gene-mutating byproducts of meat digestion. Who’d have thought that these small, tangy green things would have such a powerful impact? Apparently they do and now you know. So next time you feel like having some steak for dinner, do your body a favor and add some of these healthy pickled plant buds.
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Rebecca Rovay-Hazelton, Personal Trainer & Licensed Nutritionist