eating healthier in 2011...

i've decided that my new years resolution (other than running a successful book group & being more diligent about going to yoga this year) is going to be more conscious of the foods i put into my body...no more junk. i turn 31 this year, time to eat like a healthy adult.

brief back story: the other day i was reading poppytalk and was introduced to lori andrews, photographer, interior designer, and chef of the great blog 10 cent diet. i noticed on her diet blog dr. furman's andi scoring system. what the hell is the andi scoring system you may be asking yourself? if you've been to whole foods in the last you might have noticed signs all over the store with the andi nutrician scoring system they've adopted this past year. here it is in a nutshell:

As described in his book, Eat for Health, Fuhrman explains that the Aggregate Nutrient Density Index (ANDI) assigns a score to a variety of foods based on how many nutrients they deliver to your body in each calorie consumed. Each of the food scores is out of a possible 1,000 based on the nutrients per calorie equation (H=N/C). Since nutritional labels don't give you the information necessary to understand exactly what you are eating, these rankings do the equation for you and give you a sense of what foods yield the highest outcome. Fuhrman believes that getting the most nutrients in the fewest calories possible is the recipe for disease prevention and reversal and for permanent weight loss. -peggy kraus

here's a sample chart dr. fuhrman has set up for an easier understanding (for us visual people):


check out dr. furhman's recipes here too, just in case you want to jump on my new years resolution bandwagon. cheers to healthy eating in 2011!