Topic: How Healthy Lifestyle Articles Can Help Provide Recipes for Healthy Everyday Meals.

Kamala: Hello everyone, this is Kamala Appel AKA “The Key and KEA Productions.”

We are here talking about reasons for being healthy and I am here today with Katherine Isacks. And we are going to find out more about her quest to help people with diet and nutrition.

Katherine please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your background.

Katherine Isacks: Thank you Kamala, I’m a registered Dietitian and I work for two hospitals and I own my own business. I work primarily in weight control and diabetes education. I’m passionate about nutrition and helping folks control their health, reduce risks… that sort of thing. I’m thrilled to be here.

Kamala: Great, thank you so much!

Well, you’re obviously someone coming from a lot of knowledge, but certainly there must have been things that you learned along the way that surprised you. Was there anything about health and fitness that surprised you?

Katherine: Yes, actually I should not be surprised but I am continually surprised at just how many calories are contained in processed foods, foods from restaurants (even good quality restaurants) as well as in fast foods. I keep up on nutrition information from all sorts of different sources and I’m continually surprised at how many calories, how much saturated fat and sugar is actually in our food that are prepackaged and also from dining out food.

Kamala: Wow…

Katherine: Yeah, continual source of surprise (Laughter).

Kamala: Now many restaurants display calories on their menus and you see that one meal is around 1500 calories and it’s like wow!

Katherine: Yes and it gets much worse than that by the way. Some of the casual restaurants can easily go over 2000 calories and not to single one out as being worse than others, but

I hope this interview excerpt provided you with some Healthy Lifestyle Articles. The rest of the interview with Katherine Isacks at the Reasons for Being dot com community website and in the Reasons For Being book available at Amazon.com. Click here to purchase on the Amazon website. (This leads to an external website).