Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living

Food and Health Carnival Feb. 3

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:42 PM PST

Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

Add your link to my Food and Health Carnival.

All I ask for in return is for you to add my blog button above to your blog and/or a link to my website. Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living.  Another idea is that you could add my link to your blog roll. Thank-You.

Add Your Gluten-Free and/or Healthy Living Blog to my Directory.

This week I will share with you: How to Eat Healthy and Gluten-Free

Be sure and check out my current giveaways located on my right side bar. Have a great week.

Wow Baking Company Review and Giveaway

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 07:06 PM PST

This is a review and giveaway of Wow Baking Company. At Wow Baking they are dedicated to creating the best tasting All Natural Wheat and Gluten-free baked goods found anywhere.

Susan Howe, The Director of Product Development is passionate about creating the best tasting WOW baked goods. With a true love for baking, Susan spends countless hours mixing and baking until she has mastered the ultimate blend of ingredients. After the WOW team gets a chance to devour her creations, Susan evaluates the comments and refines the recipie to perfection.

Wow Baking Company makes:

• Individually Packed Gluten-Free Cookies and Brownies
• Gluten-Free Cookie Dough
• Grocery Style Box Gluten-Free Cookies
• Gluten-Free Bakery Cookie and Brownie Tubs
• Gluten-Free Cake Mix

I had the opportunity to try out these products from Wow Baking Company. 

• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Ginger Molasses Cookies
• Snickerdoodle Cookies
• Peanut Butter Cookies
• Oregon Oatmeal Cookies
• Brownies

Everything tasted very good and moist. My favorites are the gluten-free chocolate chips cookie and the brownies. My least favorite is the ginger molasses cookies. My husband liked the peanut butter cookies, peanut butter cookies are his favoirte kind of cookies, even my five year old liked these cookies. We like these cookies so much we bought some at Fred Meyers last week. It is so good to be able to eat gluten-Free baked products that taste good. The cookies and brownies do contain sugar in them, for those of you who cannot have sugar in your diet. I give Wow Baking Company 4 stars out of 5.

Check out Wow Baking Company website to find out where to buy.

Now for the giveaway.

One lucky winner will receive a Gift Basket of Gluten-Free Baked Goods from Wow Baking Company.

Entries:

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That gives you several entries for this giveaway. Enter as many of them as you want. Leave a comment for each entry.

This Giveaway is available for USA Only.

Giveaway goes through till February 20, 2011.

Giveaway Rules: All entries must be received by 11:59pm PST on February 20, 2011. A winner will be chosen by random.org. I will notify the winner by February 21, 2011 via email (please respond within 48 hours). I will also announce the winner on my blog. Leave a comment for each entry. Be sure and leave me your Twitter user name and Blog URL of your post. Leave me your e-mail address or make sure it is visible on your blog so that in the event that you win this giveaway I can contact you.

DISCLAIMER: I was not financially compensated for this post. I received samples of this product for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience.

How Eating Healthy Can Help You Get a Good Night's Sleep

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 04:47 PM PST

Have you ever wondered about why you can't sleep well at night? Have you ever gone to bed feeling hungry or completely full and slept poorly as a result, despite having what you consider 'regular eating habits'? Well, if this has happened to you, one reason could be that you aren't necessarily eating healthy enough to help your body get a good night's sleep. Your dietary habits and the nutrition you take into your body both significantly affect how you sleep at night.

Think first about your dietary habits. Are you eating a lot of heavy food three times a day? If so, this heavy meal at night for dinner could keep you awake. The sleepiness you feel after eating a heavy meal is a little misleading. Your body is tired, yes, but not in a way that is conducive to getting a good night's sleep. Instead, your body is trying to process the large amount of food in its system. As such, this can stress your digestive track, which is why many overeaters wake up in the middle of the night suffering from heartburn or intestinal cramping. If you can regulate the amount of food you eat at dinner by snacking throughout the day, you can manage your digestion process and make it more efficient, thus helping your body to sleep well.

Secondly, the nutrition you receive can also affect how you sleep. Yes, it's fairly common knowledge that foods and drinks heavy in caffeine can keep you up late, but so too could foods with natural sugars, such as fruits. Likewise, extremely spicy foods could give you heartburn, obviously, and certain liquids, such as milk, could make your stomach feel uncomfortably full. Of course, everyone reacts differently to different kinds of foods and drinks so you'll want to monitor your eating and sleeping habits in order to figure out what habits are best for you. Try tracking your eating and sleeping in a journal. Try it for a couple weeks and then examine the results as you experiment with different combinations. Your best bet is to learn by trial an error. Eventually you'll find the right formula and will hopefully sleep better.

If you continue to have trouble sleeping, however, and have done all you can to adjust your diet, consider speaking to a doctor and a nutritionist. Trouble sleeping can be a symptom of a greater nutritional deficiency, so you'll want to speak to an expert with the knowledge to help you diagnose and solve the problem. Until then, your best bet is to eat in moderation, to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, and to eat in a fairly standard routine.

By-line:
This guest post is contributed by Kitty Holman, who writes on the topics of nursing colleges. She welcomes your comments at her email Id: kitty.holman20@gmail.com.