Food Planning Overview

    The new Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide includes
    a range of web tools to help you plan your meals and snacks:


Build your own Food Guide with the foods that you like.
Track your day's food and activity choices and compare them to the guidelines laid out by the new Food Guide with EATracker
"Build your own Food Guide with the food you like!"

The Guide also helps you to:  Shop for healthy fooRead food label Find fast and easy meal ideaSelect smart snack  Eat out wisely

by Bob Greene Establish your activity level and reap the rewards More everyday energy. People who exercise regularly seem to attack life with more vigor. They simply have more energy. They move more, and they move faster throughout the day, and as a result, they burn a greater number of calories without even trying. If you’re unfit, physical activity can make you feel more fatigued than usual. But after a few weeks, being active gives you renewed and enhanced vitality, and that translates into more everyday movement; jumping up to answer the door instead of just saying, “Come in,” getting up to get something from your bedroom instead of asking one of your kids to bring it to you, pacing while you talk on the phone instead of sitting. Over the course of a day, all those little moves add up to a significant increase in energy expenditure. In the course of a year, that can add up to a substantial weight loss. Reduced appetite. One other benefit of physical activity is that it often helps you tame your appetite. You may get a little hungrier if you exercise than if you don’t (especially when you’re just beginning an exercise regimen or are in the process of bumping it up a level), but not enough to compensate for the calories you’ll burn through activity. You’ll still end up taking in less energy than you expend, causing weight to drop off. One additional explanation for activity’s effect on appetite may be that when you get in shape, you’ll feel motivated not to undo your hard work by overeating. You’ll be more attuned to your body and more mindful of how much food (and what kind) you’re taking in. Another possible explanation has to do with brain chemistry. I’ll talk more about this in the next chapter, but to state it briefly, some research suggests that people who overeat tend to have a lack of receptors for brain chemicals that make us feel pleasure, which is why they keep eating: it simply takes more food to get the same satisfaction signals that other people get with less. But scientists have also shown that exercise can increase the number of pleasure receptors in the brain. So even if you have a physiological disadvantage that makes you prone to overeat, exercise can help you overcome it, reducing your need to pile your plate too high. Excerpted from The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene © 2006. Excerpted by permission of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. © Photographer: Mark Atkins | Agency: Dreamstime.com Source: CityLine Feb 2008

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