Miracle Noodle Blog

Top 5 Low-Carb Foods for Weight Loss
Catchy titles such as “Top 10 Low-Carb Foods to Help You Lose 10 Pounds in 10 Days,” might get you to read an article. But the truth is that if you’re on a low-carb diet, you don’t need to search the supermarket aisles for foods that have a “Low-Carb!” label. All you need to help with weight loss are some natural foods that don’t need any branding because in nature they do not contain many carbohydrates. Let’s take a look at these special five natural low-carb foods: 1. Water Ok,... Read more...
A Healthier Kosher Sesame Noodle Recipe
  A popular kosher website, Joy of Kosher, with Jamie Geller, has a recipe for sesame noodles. Here’s the ingredients list provided on the website: 16 oz pasta (linguine, whole wheat preferred) 6 tablespoons sugar 6 tablespoons canola oil 6 tablespoons rice vinegar 6 tablespoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons sesame oil 6 scallions sliced 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds And here are the cooking instructions: Cook pasta according to directions. Mix the liquid ingredients together and microwave for 1 min (until sugar dissolves) then pour over pasta. Then add scallions... Read more...
Is it Bad to Cook With Saturated Fats?
We’d love it if you ate Miracle Noodle three times a day, every day, but, of course, that’s unrealistic. Our customers ask us, the Miracle Noodle Team, if we eat the noodles. Being primarily a family-run business, you bet we do! Several times a week, in fact. But of course we like to eat all kinds of food. We do primarily eat veggies for lunch and dinner and even a couple for breakfast (it’s real easy to throw in some spinach and tomato in an omelette), but we also will... Read more...
Occasional Fasting for Weight Loss
Every religion has a fasting holiday. While the purpose of these fasts is spiritual observance and partaking in ancient traditions, usually to reflect and meditate on personal conduct, occasional fasting, even just once a year, can offer some health benefits. Fasting provides an opportunity for us to start anew. Not only spiritually, by reflecting upon how we can be more kind, compassionate and involved with our community, but also from a health perspective as fasting can provide a metabolic reboot of your system. This comes with one major caveat that... Read more...
Best Ways to Prevent Weight Gain at Work, Part 1 of 2
Do you do the 8-5 grind 5 days a week? If so, chances are that you sit for prolonged periods of time if you have the typical office job. But hey, it beats working in a coal mine, right? At least coal miners are moving around, burning calories. You don’t have to get down and dirty like a miner, though, to prevent weight gain at work, if you have the standard desk job. Here are some ways to stay healthy during the work week…. Drink Lots of Water Sounds pretty... Read more...
Is Eating 3 Meals or 6 Better for Weight Loss?
You're not alone if you're confused about what to eat. One year eggs are unhealthy, the next, you hear it's okay to eat them, yolks and all. Well, if what to eat is sometimes exasperating, there's also how often you should eat. Is it better for weight loss if you eat three meals a day, or 6 smaller ones?  Let's first tackle your frustration with not knowing what to eat due to conflicting reports. The bottom line is, eat foods that are found in nature, focusing on vegetables (an equal mix between... Read more...
Take Care of Your Digestive System for Weight Loss
You’re not alone if you’ve ever felt some of the following unpleasant symptoms: heartburn bloating diarrhea constipation foggy brain skin problems abdominal weight gain What do all these symptoms have in common? They all stem from problems in the digestive tract. If you’re trying to lose weight, you must take care of your digestive tract, and that means first getting to know your system, which many people are ignorant about; we simply put food in our mouth when we are hungry and seldom think twice about how the food we... Read more...
How to Beat Your Sugar Addiction
The average American consumes over 150 pounds of sugar per year. Back when the United States was a fledgling group of colonies, the average yank ate under 10 pounds of sugar per year. Of course, in the 1770s, there were no processed foods.   Ring Dings, Ho-Hos and Twinkies and Big Gulps were still 200 years from hitting the shelves. But if you’re a sugar addict, is it possible to beat your addiction? First ask yourself, though, “What kind of sugar addict am I?”   In the book “How to Beat Sugar... Read more...
Wheat Flour vs. White Flour: Which is Better for Your Health?
What’s a better baking base ingredient for a carb-crazy foodie: wheat flour or white flour? Before definitively answering the question, you might assume that whole wheat flour is more nutritious. Creative advertising executives and copywriters--though some would argue they are manipulative--prominently plaster healthful claims on ubiquitous products. “Made with whole grains!” … “100% Whole Wheat Goodness” … “Organic Whole Wheat” … “Whole grains are part of a healthy, balanced diet” …. No doubt you’ve come across these clever marketing claims. But how accurate are they? Is whole wheat leaps and... Read more...
Does Pasta Cause Depression? (Ours doesn't.)
Have you heard about the latest study from Harvard that links eating lots of pasta to depression? In case you didn't hear about it, the research was published in the journal, ‘Brain, Behavior and Immunity,’ and tracked over 40,000 women over the course of a dozen years, and concluded that a diet high in carbs such as pasta can lead to a diagnosis of depression. This study, so-called “The Nurse’s Study,” analyzed the women, all 50-77 years old, and none in the group had depression at the study’s onset. The... Read more...
Is Coconut Oil Healthy To Cook With?
Many people, when they hear the word, “fat,” automatically think that this dietary macronutrient is bad for you. It’s too bad that fat isn’t called something else, such as the more scientifically accurate, “lipid.” Doesn’t that sound better if a food contains, say 10 grams of lipids rather than 10 grams of fat? If you want to cook healthy, choosing a healthy cooking oil is a must (read: What are the healthiest oils to cook with?). Coconut oil is often touted as a healthy to cook with. But at 12... Read more...
How to Make Low Carb Easy
Whether you’re new to the low-carb lifestyle or have shunned high-carb, belly-bloating dishes for quite some time now, the key to maintaining this diet is being able to create healthy dishes, easily and speedily. For those who are relatively new to the low-carb lifestyle, if it took cooking three meals a day at 45-60 minutes per meal, chances are the low-carb lifestyle wouldn’t work for very long. If, let’s say, you had to make your own low-carb noodles from scratch to be able to enjoy your favorite Italian or Asian... Read more...