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Be Smart, Eat Healthy, And Enjoy Your Holiday Season

If you are looking for ways to maintain your weight, blood sugar levels and work toward a healthy heart throughout the holidays this article will give you a few tips to help you along. It is always so much harder to resist high calorie, low nutrition treats when you?re socializing with family and friends at parties and dinners. It is even more difficult if you bake delicious treats to take along to those parties not to nibble throughout the process.

Before you start your baking and party going activities this holiday season try some or all of the following tips:

? You can get a handle on your appetite by eating vegetables and high-fiber cereals. These foods help you to feel full while maintaining blood sugars at steady levels.

? By all means do not get in such a hurry with all the holiday preparations that you skip your meals. If you skip meals while rushing around you might seem to get a little more done, but you will pay for it when you eat again. Most likely you will overeat for the next meal.

? Keep fruits, vegetables and good quality protein sources like low-or non-fat cottage cheese sticks, eggs, and nuts on hand. Nibble on these as you go through your daily preparations.

? Most traditional holiday meals are rich in vitamins. Foods like green beans, sweet potatoes, cranberries, skinless turkey are all excellent sources of nutrition. The danger comes when you put additive such as butter, sugar or oil. Avoid the use of a lot of these extra additives to your meal.

? Look for ways to make healthy changes to your favorite holiday dishes. For example, use fat-free sour cream instead of regular sour cream.

? Try to sleep at least eight hours each night.

? Empty calories from alcoholic beverages add up quickly. Alcohol can also weaken your willpower and you may end up eating more than you planned.

? Stay away from white bread ? a popular staple of the American diet. White bread can significantly raise blood sugar levels in the body.

Try eating some almonds after eating a holiday meal rich in carbohydrates. Carbohydrate-rich meals raise the blood sugar levels. Eating almonds may have a significant impact in stopping the glycemic and insulin responses of the body after eating a carbohydrate-rich meal. It is for certain they cannot hurt you unless of course you are allergic to almonds.

Almonds also reduce LDL cholesterol levels and contain a variety of important nutrients. New research shows that incorporating almonds in the diet may help in the management of blood glucose levels and the onset of illnesses such as diabetes, while promoting a healthy heart. Eating almonds throughout the year is not a bad idea actually.

We hear so much about heart disease being the world?s number one cause of death and high blood glucose causing a high number of deaths any kind of new evidence on small, enjoyable lifestyle changes that can possibly help make a difference in one?s health should be most welcome.

The new research could also provide new weight management techniques. High blood sugar levels often lead to a feeling of hunger that makes people want to eat more they should. If you help to keep your blood sugar levels low by eating almonds after your high carbohydrate meals you should feel less hungry for those high calorie deserts.

How much almonds should you eat? One-ounce, 160-calorie handful of almonds is an excellent source of vitamin E and magnesium, a good source of protein and fiber, as well as offering potassium, calcium, phosphorous, iron and heart-healthy monounsaturated fat.

So after you have done all else you know to do during this holiday season, eat a handful of almonds and continue to enjoy your holidays as usual.

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