Please check our Top 10 Nutrition Trends for 2010 that has been featured in the News, Twitter, and LinkedIn!

Top 10 Nutrition Trends for 2010

Top 10 Nutrition Trends for 2010 From NutriTalk™, Inc.

Here are what we see as the Top 10 Food and Nutrition Trends.  Click here to see all our top 10 Nutrition Trends now or you can visit our website as we share where we think the nutrition marketplace will go in the next year.

Top 10 Nutrition Trends From The Nutrition Communications Experts

NutriTalk™‘s Predicted Top 10 Nutrition Trends

1.    Fresh Foods Made Extravagant
2.    Salt Solutions
3.    Everyday Eco-Living
4.    Nutrition Labeling Symbols Standardized
5.    Quality Calories
6.    Boomer Nutrition
7.    Herbal Essences
8.    Ingredients With Benefits
9.    Back To Basics Family Meals
10.  1960’s Revival

Do you ever find yourself gobbling down fast food just so you can make your meeting or the next guided tour. Eating on the run when you are away from home presents many challenges. If you’re traveling on business, fast food may seem your only recourse when you’re scheduled for back-to-back meetings for hours on end. You know it’s not the most nutritious food, but you’ve got to eat something, right?  Here are 5 tips from NutriTalk™ to help you eat well on the road.”

5 Healthy Dine and Dash Solutions On The Road

Time –starved Americans love to eat on the run. We have five nutritious dine and dash solutions to consider when you are on vacation or a business trip.

Let’s face it. Healthy eating can be more challenging than usual when you’re on the road. After all, half the fun of traveling to new place is to explore the delicious and exciting new taste treats. Consider how many times you have asked friends or colleagues if they enjoyed their trip or cruise only to hear, “The food was wonderful”.

Taste temptations abound when you travel and it’s easy to be lured from nutritious food choices when you’re traveling. But unless you want to return home heavier than when you left, you need to remember that extra calories can snowball into additional pounds rather quickly. However, when you eat right on the road, you’ll feel more energetic, which will keep you in tip top shape for all your exploring endeavors.

Here are 5 ways to eat well on the road.

5 Healthy Eating Tips When You Travel

1.    Monitor Portion Sizes
Portion distortion can lead to unwanted weight gain. Most restaurants today serve huge portion sizes of food, in fact, many restaurants serve you enough for another whole meal! To defend your health and waistline you need to recognize true portion sizes. Some quick and easy tricks for watching how much you eat at restaurants are to order half-sized entrée or light appetizers, share your entrée with your dinner date, or box up half of the meal and take it home, which is also very economical. Also, remember that you do not have to eat everything you’re served. Another suggestion to to consider sharing a meal with a companion since you may lack the refrigeration necessary to store a left-over scrumptious meal.

2.    Pay Attention to Details
Ask questions to learn how your food will be prepared. Is your fish or chicken going to be fried or grilled? Will your vegetables  be sautéed in butter or steamed? Paying close attention to these seemingly small details can save you from overeating fat, sugar, and calories. We suggest that you look for menu items labeled as healthy, light, heart-healthy, or low-fat, that are often in many restaurants. Also, look for words like steamed, grilled, broiled, roasted, or stir fried for a lower-fat, lower-calorie meal that will still taste great. You’re the customer, so ask for the food prepared the way you like it. You can also ask for smaller portions.

3.    Health-Size Your Meal
Take any meal from a high-calorie rating to a low-calorie success by making some modifications. For example at breakfast, you request an vegetable omelet make with just egg whites and replace the hash browns  that often come with the meal with fresh tomato slices. If you want steak, consider having a petite filet mignon and instead of ordering French fries with your steak, get a double side of steamed veggies. Wash down your meals with water, tea or unsweetened iced tea, and limit your alcohol. You will be more satisfied if you to chew your calories instead of drinking them in juices, colas and sweetened tea.

4.    Be Sauce Savvy
Sauces are to be savored. If you pick a salad for your meal filled with healthy, fresh, and delicious ingredients, ask for the dressing on the side. Then, once you have the salad dressing, resist the urge to pour the dressing over the entire salad! The salad dressing can turn a low calorie meal into a high fat calorie laden nightmare. Sauces on main entrees and side dishes, like the creamy stuff such as Alfredo sauce, mayonnaise, sour cream, butter, cream-based soups, ranch or French dressings, etc., need to be limited or avoided.  We suggest that you choose marinara over creamy pasta sauces, mustard instead of mayonnaise, salsa in place of sour cream, olive oil instead of butter, broth-based soups rather than cream-based, and oil and vinegar or light dressings in place of creamy salad dressings. If you simply cannot fight the urge for one of these sauces, ask for the sauce on the side so that you can control how much goes on the food.

5.    Be Picky at Salad Bars
Waist watchers have learned that eating a salad before a meal can fill them up. However, salad bars can really be a healthy eaters nightmare. Although many choices on the salad bar are healthy, there are also many high-calorie foods, such as mayonnaise-laden potato salad, macaroni salad and coleslaw, high-fat pasta salads, and shredded full-fat cheeses that can add unwanted calories to healthy salad greens and vegetables.

Enjoy Eating Healthy!
Although these tips are vital for helping you cut unwanted calories from your meals on the run, you can still treat yourself to something you really want every once in awhile. Don’t deprive yourself if you really want something – just eat a smaller portion size or share with your dinner companion. It’s not a sin to have scalloped potatoes or a brownie, as long as you keep in mind that you can’t eat like that every day when you’re trying to lose or maintain your weight.

By establishing a framework of balanced eating before you leave home, you can try a small portion of tempting foods if you remember moderation. You can always have the food again on future travels, or opt to have specialty shops ship you your favorite must have food that reminds you of your trip.

Here are our tips for healthy dining on the road.

5 Healthy Dine and Dash Solutions On The Road

1. Monitor Portion Sizes
2. Pay Attention to Details
3. Health-Size Your  Meal
4. Be Sauce Savvy
5. Be Picky at Salad Bars

According to the CDC the obesity rates continue to rise. Obesity does not discriminate and it’s a problem for men, women, and children. Health professionals know that obesity has causes many children to face health problems, such as diabetes, at an earlier age.

We believe that everyone needs to get involved from your family to schools to the community to policy makers. For example, parents can limit unhealthy snack foods and act as good role models.  You may have noticed that many schools are now serving more fruits and vegetables for lunches.  Another positive stop is that many communities are sprucing up their parks to encourage more physical activity by people of all ages and sizes to promote healthy eating and active living.

Get out today and become more active to help reduce the rates of obesity.

Dining Out Trends: An Increased Desire for Eating At Restaurants

Eating out has become more popular lately. According to many financial experts, the economy is improving.  A new Consumer Spending Report shows an increase in U.S. consumer spending that includes an increase in dining out at restaurants. In the recent study, 27- percent said that they have spent more than they planned at restaurants while 18 – percent said they actually spent less. This study showed that there was an upward trend of 5-percent in dining out since last November.

We believe that another factor that may influence dining out frequency is the recent law which was part of the health care overhaul that requires calorie-posting in restaurants with 20 or more locations to include calorie counts on menus, menu boards, and drive-thrus. Many health experts believe that once restaurants reveal calorie counts, it may encourage diners to eat more healthfully. In addition, many nutrition professionals hope that once you see the nutrition information listed about your favorite foods that you will demand that restaurants offer healthier options.  On the other hand, many people believe that the information will be overlooked by most people. NutriTalk™ believes that there will be a split between health conscious eaters and diners who want taste, convenience, and lower cost foods.

Menu of Reasons Why You Report You Are Eating Out

The reason that more people say that they are dining out involves these three factors:

• Traveling More
• Less Time to Cook at Home
• Food is Cheaper Than Cooking At Home

Healthy Dining Out Choices

We have some suggestions to make sure that you maintain or improve your health.

• Check For Healthier Foods. When you read the description of an entree look for clues. Nutritious options are baked, grilled and roasted are usually lower in fat and calories. However, crispy or fried foods, or those entrees with rich, creamy sauces, like Alfredo, that can add to your fat and calorie intake.

• Be Special. Ask for your choice without sauces, dressings and gravies or request they be placed on the side so that you can regulate how much that you use. Another tip is to substitute fresh vegetables, like sliced tomatoes, in place of fried potatoes or chips.

• Request People Bag. You can enjoy the meal again, and keep your waistline intact, if you as your server to pack half for another meal.

If you are dining out in Moderate Casual Dining Restaurants, expect an increase wait time since a recent survey showed that 4-percent more expect to dine in these establishments and if you are fortunate to go to a High End Casual Restaurants, there will be slight uptick in patrons. However, if you are a fast food lover, there should be actually less traffic for orders.

If you are searching for a company that can provide you with knowledge and strategic direction to help solve your business problems and implement creative nutrition communications solutions, look no farther. Our approach begins with a concerted effort to develop a thorough understanding of a client’s project and their primary objectives. NutriTalk™ Inc. delivers advice that is research-based, pragmatic, strategic, and specific. Based on a client’s individual situation, we carefully design a specific plan of action and actively manage its implementation.

When your business requires the services of nutrition communications professionals, consider NutriTalk™, Inc. as the answer. We provide credibility and reliability for those seeking expertise in the area of nutrition. Please contact our offices for more details on how we can support the goals of your company. After contacting us, we can schedule a more in-depth conversation where we can explain how we can create strategies and solutions to enhance your bottom line by improving your corporate image. Please contact us at (949) 269 – 3082 or visit us at NutriTalk.com.

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Blogging can be quick, painless way to market your current nutrition business or nutrition cause. Any blogging program can help you to focus attention on your nutrition business, draw more potential clients, gain professional credibility that can result in more media work, and can gain no service, but evangelize it to their peers. TO help focus your blogging efforts in a positive manner, we have created the top 5 tips to make any nutrition blog a huge success.

If you want an fast way to ease into the blogging world, consider a twitter account. After you succeed at regular tweets, you are ready to start a more detailed blog, if you want more benefits of a blog, like page ranking above your local competitors, consider a blog, such as Blogger, WordPress, or Typeface.

Here are the major problems with most nutrition blogs that litter the web. Avoid these five major taboos and your blog will reap you dividends many times over!

Mistake #1: Not Blogging Consistently

Think about the blogs you read on a regular basis, do any of them publish irregularly? Most successful nutrition blogs post fresh new content several times a week, many on a regular basis, such as Tuesday and Thursday. To win at nutrition blogging, follow a regular schedule. Successful bloggers often set up an editorial calendar to help guide them through the content. When are you best at brainstorming? Choose a time and create a schedule. When you steadily post quality news content, your readership will grow and you may be able to build a community of loyal followers.

Mistake #2: Blog About You and Your Business

Do you like to read about other people all the time. More than likely the answer is no. Therefore, think of your nutrition blog like a newspaper full of topical information, not just your own press releases. Your audience doesn’t care about your business, nearly as much as they want the secret to losing weight, reading a able and internet the latest nutrition study that is being disused in the news. If you use your nutrition blog to republish your press releases potential clients will be turned off. A blog, is not a press room for you to say how wonderful your business is and how much you have grown. Instead, focus on stories, like the couple you together lost 46 pounds after seeking your expert nutrition guidance or highlight tips and tricks for common events, such as healthy dining out on a date.

Mistake #3: Closing Off Communications

The secret to successful nutrition blogging is a allowing a conversation. If you close off communications with your readers, you are making a big mistake. Remember, no one likes a one-ways conversation. If you wanted that, you might as well write a press release. Instead, enable commenting on your business nutrition blog when you set up the nutrition blog. use your nutrition blog comments to connect with your potential clients and current customers. In fact, many a blog post has launched a new idea, service or product that the market was requesting.

If you want to grow your business, consider blogging on other note-worthy nutrition blogs in your particular nutrition-niche market. That way you can increase your number or readers of your timely, informative, and interesting nutrition blog.

Mistake #4: Be Relevant, Interesting, and Current

Nothing will turn off viewers of your blog than stale content, uninspired writing and lack of real news. When you design your blog, you need to consider that visibility of your content, as well as the content. Is the type face readable, is there lack if white space, Is it too cutesy for your audience. If you blog about serious nutrition topics, such as nutrition labeling, you should not have graphics that would appear to a school-aged child. An important point to consider is your target audience and remember that in design, less is often more.

If your goal is to be more visible, than remember that topical nutrition blog should be able to be found when you put the general nutrition area, such as pediatric obesity blog in your favorite search engine. One way to ensure that you are visible to your regular readers is to subscribe to a full RSS feed , such as feedburner, so others can read your content current emails as well as online. For even more visibility, add your nutrition blog’s URL in your email signature, on your business cards, your company website and any brochures.

If you want a power boost your nutrition blog, consider using social networking, such as Facebook and Twitter to alert your fans and followers of new nutrition blog content, and then make it easy for your readers to share your blog content with each other through email and social media channels.

Mistake #5: Progress, Not Perfection

Like a good wine, successful blogging will take time and aging. By regularly positing to your nutrition blog and marketing, you will succeed. In general, it is very usual for a nutrition blog to be a success in a few days. those first few weeks and months you will feel that you are writing to no one. Take time and post regularly, you soon will notice the fruits of your labors.

If you avoid these 5 pitfalls of nutrition blogging, you can succeed in the visible world of nutrition blogging. In time, you can be know as a nutrition thought leaders in your particular market niche.

Please check our Top 10 Nutrition Trends for 2010 that has been featured in the News, Twitter, and LinkedIn!

Top 10 Nutrition Trends for 2010

Top 10 Nutrition Trends for 2010 From NutriTalk™, Inc.

Here are what we see as the Top 10 Food and Nutrition Trends.  Click here to see all our top 10 Nutrition Trends now or you can visit our website as we share where we think the nutrition marketplace will go in the next year.

Top 10 Nutrition Trends From The Nutrition Communications Experts

NutriTalk™’s Predicted Top 10 Nutrition Trends

1.    Fresh Foods Made Extravagant
2.    Salt Solutions
3.    Everyday Eco-Living
4.    Nutrition Labeling Symbols Standardized
5.    Quality Calories
6.    Boomer Nutrition
7.    Herbal Essences
8.    Ingredients With Benefits
9.    Back To Basics Family Meals
10.  1960’s Revival