Category: Families
Leg Exercise Workout: Tone and Shape in No Time!
Looking for a way to tone your legs? Here are five exercises that will shape up your legs in just a few weeks. From start to finish, this workout should take you right around 30 minutes. Throw in 20 minutes of interval cardio, and you’ve got the perfect workout. Do the exercises in this order, [...]
The 29 Great Days Challenge: Runs 2/1 through 2/29
How much of a difference do you think you can make in your life if you make one little change everyday for 29 days? February is heart health month, and for the 29 days of February, I’m running a contest that will motivate and move you to being fitter, stronger and healthier. How does it [...]
Weight Loss, Eating Out and Becoming Food Conscious
If you eat out often, chances are you may have a harder time managing your weight than if you ate every meal at home. Restaurant food portions are usually out of control and as consumers, we really don’t know how much junk is actually added to our entrees. I have a little good news for [...]
Best of 2011: Your Favorite Exercise Tips, Recipes & Diet Advice
Who knew that writing a blog all about health, fitness and good-for-you foods would be so much fun? I can’t believe another year is nearly over. In the past year, this blog has taken me to The TODAY Show to chat with Hoda and Kathy Lee, every network in Chicago to talk food and [...]
Fertility, Disease, Food and BPA
In the spring of 2012, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will decide whether or not to ban Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical used in plastic. The greatest concern of this chemical comes in the use of water bottles, food containers and as the lining of canned goods. About 93% of us have low levels or [...]
Eat This, Not That for Thanksgiving
Keep Thanksgiving clean this year by preparing your own dishes from start to finish. Without the help of canned goods, refrigerated pie crusts and rolls that pop out of a cylinder, pulling together a delicious and healthy Thanksgiving dinner – without breaking the bank – is a lot easier to do that you might think. [...]
This Veteran Broke His Neck, then Re-enlisted
If there were a real-life Ironman, it would be Neil Gussman. At first, Gussman’s life sounds “simple” enough. He joined the army in 1976 when he was 18. At that time, the Vietnam war was just ending, and Gussman was stationed in Germany as a tank commander. After the army, Gussman went to school at [...]
Food, Family and the Fun House Mirror Syndrome
Every now and then, a topic surfaces that deserves a little more than fleeting attention. Anyone who’s read this blog for more than a week knows health, fitness and eating clean are always on the table. I want to be abundantly clear, however, that body size is in no way the sole factor in what [...]
Everyday Amazing: Her Reason to Give Back after Disease Took So Much
Body weight has been a concern in Tammy Brown’s life since she was three years old. It was then that her seemingly fit father died suddenly of a heart attack at the young age of 24 while playing in a basketball tournament. An athlete through high school, Brown’s father choose fatherhood and a job at [...]
“Weight Shocks” Hit Women after Marriage, Men after Divorce
Ohio State University recently released findings from a study that suggested women have a tendency to gain a significant amount of weight after marriage, and men gain a significant amount of weight after divorce. The study followed over 10,000 people from 1986 to 2008 to determine the amount of weight gained within two years of a marriage [...]
