Your "Best Life" Within Reach

Creamy Mango Salsa With Light Mayonnaise
Tea-Scented Couscous
Magically Moist Salmon With Light Mayonnaise

(Family Features) - Bob Green, Oprah's personal trainer, suggests you look no further than your kitchen cupboard for help in feeling and looking your best. Greene's latest best-seller, "Best Life Diet," focuses on practical ways to make easy, healthful choices for lasting weight loss.

"The primary goal of the Best Life Diet is to change the way people eat for life - making healthier choices that achieve lasting weight loss," Greene said. To help consumers make smart choices, Greene created a Best Life seal of approval for foods he recommends. This seal can help where many key food choices are made - at the grocery store.

Impressed by many food companies' efforts to offer great tasting, nutritious foods for weight management and better health, Greene includes many household brand food products and real-life recipes in the "Best Life Diet." These items make it easy to follow his weight loss approach.

Best Life Food Tips

• Staying hydrated is an important factor in weight loss - and tea is second to water. One of Greene's personal favorite drinks is Lipton Pyramid Green Tea with Mandarin Orange, made with long leaf tea and real pieces of fruit.
  
• Eating and cooking with good fats - those with no trans fat or cholesterol, and high in mono- and polyunsaturated fats, and those containing healthy omega-3 fats - are important for heart health and satiety. Bertolli Olive Oil, Hellmann's and Best Foods' Canola and Light Mayonnaises bear the Best Life seal and all contain the good fats.
• Controlling calories is key to weight loss and control. Wish-Bone Salad Spritzers Vinaigrette Dressings are packaged in easy-to-use spray bottles that offer great control over the amount of dressing added to a salad with only one calorie per spray.
  
• To jump-start your weight loss - reduce calories for one meal a day using a meal replacement. Also, Greene says that using mini-meals can be critical in helping with hunger control. Slim-Fast meal replacement shakes and bars are scientifically proven to help control hunger.

Greene partnered with companies, such as General Mills, Florida Citrus and Unilever, who have shown a commitment to improving the nutritional profile and ingredients of their products.

"Making it easier for consumers to choose 'better for you' products is central to our corporate mission," said Doug Balentine, Director Nutrition Science the America's for Unilever. "As part of our nutrition enhancement program, Unilever has eliminated more than 25,000 tons of fat, 10,000 tons of sugar and 2,000 tons of sodium, globally, from our products. In the U.S., our Eat Smart/Drink Smart labeling program helps shoppers make smart, nutritious choices."

The Best Life Diet helps us realize that healthful eating is as close as our kitchen cabinet. By choosing trusted, familiar brands which are easy to spot in the supermarket, consumers are able to maintain a lifetime of healthy eating that is simple and doable. Learn more about the Best Life program at www.thebestlife.com.

Need further inspiration for looking good and feeling great? Take a look at Oprah!

Creamy Mango Salsa With Light Mayonnaise
Makes: 4 servings
Prep Time: 10 minutes

1/4 cup Hellmann's or Best
Foods Light Mayonnaise
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 cups quartered grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
1 medium ripe mango, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup chopped red onion
1 medium jalapeno pepper, finely chopped (optional)
1 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro (optional)

In medium bowl, blend mayonnaise, lime juice and cumin. Stir in remaining ingredients. Serve with corn chips, if desired.

(This recipe is also terrific with Hellmann's or Best Foods Canola Real Mayonnaise or Hellmann's or Best Foods Real Mayonnaise.)

This recipe is "Best Life" approved. Best Life is a trademark owned by Best Life Corp. Learn more about the Best Life program at www.thebestlife.com.

Nutrients per serving: 100 calories, 45 calories from fat, 0.5g saturated fat, 0g trans fat, 5g total fat, 5mg cholesterol, 125mg sodium, 15g total carbohydrate, 11g sugars, 2g dietary fiber, 1g protein, 20% vitamin A, 45% vitamin C, 2% calcium

Tea-Scented Couscous
Makes: 6 servings
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Brew Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes

1 14.5-ounce can chicken broth
1/2 cup water
3 Lipton Green Tea with Mandarin Orange Flavor Pyramid Tea Bags
1 10-ounce box couscous
1/2 cup golden raisins
1 tablespoon Bertolli Classico Olive Oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 green onions, sliced
1/3 cup toasted sliced almonds

In 2-1/2-quart saucepan, bring broth and water to a boil over high heat. Remove from heat. Add tea bags; cover and brew 5 minutes. Remove tea bags and squeeze. Stir in couscous, raisins, olive oil and salt. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Just before serving, stir in green onions and almonds.

This recipe is "Best Life" approved. Best Life is a trademark owned by Best Life Corp. Learn more about the Best Life program at www.thebestlife.com.

Nutrients per serving: 280 calories, 50 calories from fat, 0.5g saturated fat, 0g trans fat, 5g total fat, 0mg cholesterol, 350mg sodium, 49g total carbohydrate, 0g sugars, 4g dietary fiber, 8g protein, 2% vitamin A, 2% vitamin C, 4% calcium, 6% iron

Magically Moist Salmon With Light Mayonnaise
Makes: 4 servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes

4 salmon fillets (about 4 ounces each)
1/4 cup Hellmann's or Best Foods Light Mayonnaise
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper

Preheat oven to 400°F. Brush salmon with mayonnaise; season with salt and pepper. Arrange salmon on baking pan. Bake 10 minutes or until fish flakes with fork.

(This recipe is also terrific with Hellmann's or Best Foods Canola Real Mayonnaise.)

This recipe is "Best Life" approved. Best Life is a trademark owned by Best Life Corp. Learn more about the Best Life program at www.thebestlife.com.

Nutrients per serving: 210 calories, 110 calories from fat, 2g saturated fat, 0g trans fat, 12g total fat, 65mg cholesterol, 310mg sodium, 1g total carbohydrate, 0g sugars, 0g dietary fiber, 23g protein, 0% vitamin A, 0% vitamin C, 2% calcium, 6% iron

SOURCE: Unilever Brands