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Every week we offer you a delicious, healthy dish to add to your eating plan, complete with caloric and nutritional values. Our goal is to get you to be conscious of every morsel of food, every sip of beverage you take in throughout the day and night. Let's get in synch with that old adage "You Are What You Eat".

The key to managing your weight is understanding your Basic Metabolic Rate. This is the number of calories you burn each day at rest, performing only normal bodily functions, no activity at all. They're sometimes referred to as your "free" calories.

Here's the formula:
DIVIDE YOUR WEIGHT BY 2.2
MULTIPY THAT NUMBER BY 8.7
ADD 829 to THAT NUMBER

So let's say your BMR is 1359. Basically, you are burning 1359 calories without doing anything at all. You can eat that number of calories, barely move, and maintain your current weight.

Start being aware of what calories you consume, up to your BMR...and above. The equation of weight management is simple. To lose, you need to burn more calories than you consume. To gain, you need to consume more calories than you burn. And to maintain, you need to balance equally your burn/consumption, above your BMR number.

Honey-Grilled Salmon

Serves 4
Serve with steamed broccoli

Prep time 10 minutes
Cook time 7 minutes

1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon honey
4 4-ounce salmon filets

1. Preheat broiler.    

2. Combine paprika, chili powder, garlic powder, and cumin. Stir in honey to form a smooth syrup.  

3. Using your fingers, spread syrup gently over the salmon. Place on a foil-covered oven-safe pan that you’ve sprayed with cooking spray. Broil for 5-7 minutes, depending on thickness, just until fish flakes easily off the fork.   

The Seasoned Chef notes that garlic powder is used in the rub because fresh garlic will likely burn in the cooking process. Salmon is also wonderful cooked outside on the grill. Cumin is the second most popular spice in the world, next to black pepper. Cumin has a distinctive, slightly bitter yet warm flavor.

Nutrition Goldmine: Rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, cold water fish such as salmon prevent clotting in blood vessels and may help raise HDL cholesterol. Omega-3 fatty acids also help keep the heart beating in a healthy rhythm. The new guidelines recommend two-three meals of fatty fish each week.

Per serving: 213 calories, 24 gm protein, 6 gm carbohydrate, 10 gm fat, 2 gm sat fat, 5 gm mono fat, 70 mg cholesterol, 1 gm fiber, 61 mg sodium

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