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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Eating Away at Inflammation
Season 1 - Episode 13Did You Know?Inflammation can trigger chronic diseases such as heart disease and Type II Diabetes.A diet
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
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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Potato & Cauliflower Mash
This combo mash is just as easy as making mashed potatoes and just as tasty, yet has far fewer calories and carbohydrates. And by using low fat milk with more olive oil and less butter, the saturated fat is
Roast Squash 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
Southern Style Greens
A classic combination of Southern American side dishes stuffed with fiber, full of flavor and distinctly moderate in calories… but whose counting? At the same time these recipes fight shy of too much saturated fat and sodium thanks to just
Tabbouleh with Artichoke
Classic parsley, tomato and bulgar salad, known as Tabbouleh, or Taboulie, is prepared exquisitely by our American Public Television cooking show colleague, Julie Taboulie of Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen. We can’t improve on her version and we wouldn’t even try.