Nutrients

Lunch is hours away, yet your stomach is growling! You could indulge yourself with a snack, but you think it's best to avoid treats altogether, to wait for lunch. Not true, if weight loss is your goal. In fact, small meals several times a day can help manage hunger & reduce binging. Eating a healthy snack may stop you from taking second or third helpings at your next meal, radically cutting the calories you consume. Healthy meals often lose out to busy schedules. A grab-and-go snack could be the difference between some nourishment & none at all.

Nutrients currently used to treat a variety of health problems by practitioners speak to the enduring nutritional roots of modern medicine.

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Even though you load your plate with greens as often as possible, experts say you may not be getting all the nutrients vegetables have to offer if you are cooking them.

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Eating out can be a pleasure, but for some, it is more of a nightmare. Those used to eating food prepared in a certain way will find that their body does not appreciate the cooking and processing methods employed by many restaurants. The body needs certain enzymes in order to break down difficult to digest foods such as beans and broccoli as well as carbohydrates and fats.

Louisville dietitian Michelle Eckhart highly recommends that those following a vegetarian diet include the following nutrients in their diet:

• Protein
has many important functions and is essential for growth and maintenance. Protein needs can easily be met by eating a variety of plant-based foods. Combining different protein sources in the same meal isn't necessary. Sources of protein for vegetarians include beans, nuts, nut butters, peas and soy products (examples: tofu, tempeh, veggie burgers). Milk products and eggs are also good protein sources.

• Iron