Are you part of the 50+ Boomer/Senior generations and concerned with your dietary health challenges such as high cholesterol, hypertension, heart disease or elevated A1C? If so, you've definitely come to the right place!
Food Over 50 is here to tempt you with valuable nutritional information and healthy, flavorful recipes that focus on our dietary wellness and longevity.
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Unloading Carbs: Reducing Dietary Starch
Season 1 - Episode 9Did You Know?Look for carbs that come with lots of vitamins and minerals like those from
The Seafood Diet
Season 2 - Episode 9 What better place to introduce our “Seafood Diet” episode from Season II of Food Over
Roughing It: Fiber Fiber Everywhere!
Season 2 - Episode 5 By consuming fresher, more wholesome foods, cooked without greasy coatings or rich sauces, we can
Did you Know?
Sweet Things
Sugar and saturated fat trigger your body to make more of its own cholesterol.
Sodium
About 75% of the sodium added to our diets comes from processed foods, not the salt shaker.
Omega 3's
Fattier fish such as salmon, mackerel & anchovies are great sources of Omega 3 fatty acids.
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Fancy some healthier breakfast options, like deliciously Dirty Eggs, a sizzling Garden Skillet or sumptuous Slow Oats? Does Ambrosia Tropicale, Berry & Quinoa Salmagundi, or Pisto Manchego sound exotically & nutritiously appetizing? Would leaner, higher fiber comfort foods like Fireside Chili, Meatloaf & Mash, Sweet Corn Hash & Turkey Noodle Soup tickle our tastebuds?
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Roast Cauliflower for Poulet Jardin
Roasting is a particularly healthy cooking method, concentrating the flavors and nutrients in many of our cooked foods rather than boiling them away. Since we already have a chicken in the oven for our Poulet Jardin, it makes sense to
Bittersweet Steak Salad
A small portion of sizzling hot steak over crisp, cool salad greens where the bitter Radicchio is offset by sweet pear. This is one of my favorite warm weather meals. It’s light, refreshingly well balanced, immensely flavorful and loaded with
Date & Bourbon Chantilly Cream
Sweetened whipped cream is classically referred to as “Chantilly,” but who of us – at our age – really needs the added carbs and empty calories of refined sugar? So instead, three very appealing ingredients, a little elbow grease and
Walnut and Date Slow Oats
Slow cooked, steel cut oats made ‘instantly’ delicious with earthy-sweet accents of walnut and dates. These ingredients are rife with healthy anti- oxidants, extra fiber, important vitamins and even Omega 3’s! And not a speck of added salt or refined