Peg’s Blog
Food & lifestyle ideas to keep you healthy
Obesity Costs Companies Billions
If you are a CEO, CFO, or Benefits Manager for your company, you are seeing annual increases in your employee life, disability and health insurance premiums that are a direct result of the mounting statistics of overweight and obese employees.
Get Ready for Butternut Squash
Just when you may be tiring of summer vegetables, antioxidant rich and delicious butternut squash is making its appearance. Technically a fruit because of its seeds, it has a dense interior that when cooked brings out a natural buttery flavor that is hard to resist.
Why Baby Boomers Need to Eat Healthy
By age 50, most of us have thankfully begun to realize that dieting is not the answer to health, high self-esteem or happiness. It is a distraction from the real answer to being well and vibrant. And what is the real answer? Simple, real food that you acquire by...
Do You Worry about Triglycerides?
Triglycerides are those fatty fibers that move through the bloodstream and should be kept to a level of 150 or less. I used to wonder why mine were so high as I never or rarely ate red meat or fried foods. What I didn’t know was sugar and white flour foods like bagels play a significant role in raising triglycerides, and I was eating a cookie or two every day, and frequently ate bagels.
