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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Sweet Things
Season 1 - Episode 4Did You Know?Look for words such as sugar, dextrose, high fructose corn syrup or sucrose on
The Weighty Issue Of Calorie Counting
Season 1 - Episode 11Did You Know?Focus on all the wonderful foods that you can have, not just the foods
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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Orange Sesame Chicken
Care for a stir-fry with a minimum of low sodium soy sauce, yet tons of fresh flavor? This healthy take on a Chinese classic relies on garlic, ginger, chili, sesame oil and freshly squeezed orange juice, rather than loads of
Sweet & Savory Dessert Tray
Who says desserts have to be sickly sweet and loaded with refined sugar? This sociable, Moroccan-style après supper treat requires no cooking, no baking and no burden on our next A1c test! Print Recipe Mediterranean Sweet & Savory Dessert Tray
Mussels Marinara
Mussels contain a substantially higher level of healthy Omega 3’s than any other shellfish. This is why I regularly hand-harvest these beautiful bi-valves outside the cottage in Scotland and turn them into a variety of recipes, from smoked mussels to
A Hint of Chocolate
Do chocolate eclairs, chocolate ice cream, chocolate mousse or molten chocolate fondue sound yummy? Whether we admit it or not, most of us are chocoholics. But cacao that’s been fattened and sweetened into traditional chocolate desserts can potentially play havoc