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Top 4 Ways to Stay on a Low-Carb Diet
Checkin' in with you to see if you're staying on the right track to slash 2000 calories a week from your diet.... The average high-carb pasta serving is 300 calories. Replacing one high-carb meal per day with Miracle Noodles, pasta, rice or soups can help you slash over 2000 calories a week from your diet. To give yourself the best opportunity to stay on the low-carb bandwagon, are you doing the following 4 things consistently? 1. Cooking Miracle Noodles the Best Way Possible, aka Dry Roasting Dry roasting Miracle Noodles... Read more...
Knock! Knock! The Gluten Free Police is (Finally) Here! But Do The New Labeling Standards Go Far Enough?
Finally, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has established standardized gluten free labeling regulations. As of August 5, 2014, the FDA published a final rule for the "Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act" better known by what will surely be one of the least repeated acronyms in history, FALCPA. Wouldn't it have been better if the FDA came up with GAS: Gluten and Allergen Standards? Anyhow, what does the new gluten free labeling standards mean? And if you have Celiac Disease, does the regulation go far enough? Before answering... Read more...
Best Low-Carb Breakfast: 'Tapioca' Miracle Rice Pudding
Maria Emmerich is an author and wellness expert in nutrition and exercise physiology. She shares a passion for helping others reach their goals of optimal health. That's why she has recommended Miracle Noodles on her website, MariaMindBodyHealth.com. Her specialty is brain chemical neurotransmitters and how they are affected by the foods we eat. Maria has authored several cookbooks and 3 nutritional guide books including “Secrets to a Healthy Metabolism” which includes a foreword by New York Time #1 bestselling author of “Wheat Belly” Dr. William Davis.  Maria shares this awesome... Read more...
The Skinny on the HCG Diet
The Miracle Noodle Team receives emails from around the world everyday praising our shirataki noodles for helping with weight loss. And occasionally, Miracle Noodle devotees tell us they've done the HCG diet to help with successful weight loss.  So it begs the question, what does the Miracle Noodle Team think of the HCG diet? Here's our answer.... To lose weight, would you get injected with, or take a supplement that comes from the hormone that's extracted from the urine of pregnant women? Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, aka HCG, has been medically administered since the... Read more...
Can You Eat Bread if You're on a Low-Carb Diet?
Can You Eat Bread if You're on a Low-Carb Diet?
Bread is usually one of the first things people give up when hopping on the low-carb bandwagon. But is it really necessary to entirely give it up? The main reason... Read more...
How to Avoid Overeating on the Holidays
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, Easter, and more.... Feasting on these holidays and other grand-occasion get-togethers can derail you off the weight-management healthy train. So what to do? Here's a couple pieces of advice that's counter-inuitive to the conventional theory that it's important not to overeat on the holidays. On the contrary! Eat, eat and eat some more on feast days. The first dietary theory for holidays is to eat a lot. A lot of veggies, that is. Every holiday celebration involves veggies, whether it's asparagus... Read more...
Eat Saturated Fat for Weight Loss?
Everyone knows saturated fat is bad for you, right? Every TV health expert or article that you've read probably has recommended avoiding fats that are bad for the heart such as trans- and saturated-fats.   But are saturated fats as bad for you as you think? Can some saturated fats even help with weight loss?    Here's why saturated fats have had a bad rap for the past 60+ years:   As Americans started eating less natural foods--the necessity of getting food over to soldiers in Europe and beyond during... Read more...
Even if Oatmeal is Gluten-Free, is it Healthy?
Assuming your oatmeal is gluten-free (read "Is Oatmeal Gluten-Free?"), lots of health experts recommend eating it to reduce cholesterol and preventing heart disease? But what's the true scoop on oatmeal?  A half-cup serving of a leading brand of quick oats (cooked with milk) contains the following: --190 calories --27 grams of carbohydrates --4 grams of fiber --5 grams of protein --3 grams of fat (.5 gram saturated) --10 percent daily value (DV) of iron  Oatmeal also contains lots of minerals. A cup of the same leading conventional brand contains: --25 percent... Read more...
Recipe for Kosher Veggie Rice Pilaf
This kosher recipe comes from Gloria Shimoni and was originally featured on About.com. This recipe is terrific. The Miracle Noodle Team has prepared it on several occasions for our friends who eat kosher diets. Remember, Miracle Noodle is a small, family-run business so we all take a part in scouring the web for great kosher recipes. Kosher is a booming health trend, with more and more people concerned about how their food was prepared.  That being said, we would also like to suggest an alternative for our carb- and calorie-conscious consumers: Try Miracle Rice instead... Read more...
What's the Best Low Carb Post-Workout Drink?
You've just run 5 miles. Or come back from a hot yoga class dripping wet with sweat. Or maybe you just went for a long walk. You're parched. Your trillions of cells are simultaneously crying for refreshment. Your body needs immediate rehydration.   But if you're on a Low-Carb diet, refueling with sports- or energy drinks may negate any positive impact that your exercise routine has because your two primary reasons for eating low-carb is to control your blood sugar and prevent weight gain.    There are a lot of... Read more...
A Recipe for Healthy Pasta Salad
Usually, pasta salad is packed with carbohydrates. Just one serving--and who has just one serving, let's get real--has dozens of grams of carbohydrates.  And unless you're planning on doing dozens of wind sprints uphill, on the sand or stadium bleachers, the carbs you don't burn off will eventually get stored as body fat.  Carb-loaded pasta salad also usually makes you feel sleepy because of all the work your digestive system has to do in order to convert the starch into usable energy (sugar). And when you don't burn that sugar,... Read more...
New Research Offers Positive Diabetes News
Perhaps you're familiar with the widely publicized report published in 2010 by the Centers for Disease Control, which predicts, by the year 2050, one-third of U.S. adults will have diabetes and even more will be pre-diabetic.   It would seem implausible for any good news about diabetes statistics to manifest considering such dire predictions.    Well, good news is here, despite the gloomy forecast: rates of debilitating complications from heart attacks and strokes are on the decline.    A U.S. study, in fact, says that over the last two decades,... Read more...