Category: Food
Gluten-Free Father’s Day Feast
Chicken Skewers with Cashew Pesto Sauce Fire up the grill and get your wooden skewers blanched in water. The star of this simple dish is the sauce. Made with cashews instead of pine nuts, this sauce is a great savory alternative. Ingredients 2 c. Fresh Basil 1/2 c. Raw Cashew Nuts, unsalted 1/2 c. Parmesan, [...]
Healthy Carb Breakfast for Your Body Type
“Carbohydrates.” Say the word and almost everyone listens. Most of us know that when we eat carbohydrates, our body stores them in our muscles and liver for immediate use for energy. What we don’t store in either of those two departments gets stored as fat. Not everyone metabolizes carbohydrates at the same rate. Some people [...]
Calorie Crazy vs Calorie Conscious?
Several years ago I trained a great client who showed up for every session with a calorie-counting heart rate monitor ready to go. I also had another client around that same time who would show up shortly after breakfast worried about the 200 calories she just ate…and whether or not they would increase her body [...]
Foods That Are Right For Your Body Type
This morning I’ll be going on The TODAY Show with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford to talk body types – specifically foods that are right for your body type. If you miss the show and are interested in what’s going on, here is what I’ll be talking about. There are a lot of different [...]
The Dirty Dozen & Clean 15
Summer is just a couple weeks away. Fruit salads and grilled veggies will be pushed into high gear. I always encourage people to try to shop organic when it comes to produce. Aside from a higher nutrient value in organically-produced produce, organic fruits and vegetables are grown without synthetic pesticides, petroleum-based or sewage sludge-based fertilizer [...]
Is the Breakfast You’re Eating Right for Your Body?
Eating the right foods in the morning plays a bigger role in how healthy or unhealthy you eat for the rest of the day. Breakfast sets a whole chain of events in motion, from maintaining even energy levels (thanks to blood sugar levels) to keeping cravings in check through lunch and dinner. As a metabolic [...]
The Best Adult Dessert Ever: Raw Brownies
Last week I spoke at the Kenmore Live Studios in Chicago for a Families in the Loop event. It was a pre-Mother’s Day event, largely geared around food, fitness and style. I was there to give a few tips on how to stay healthy, but the real star of the show was Beth Aldrich, who [...]
3 Great Pre and Post-Workout Breakfasts
The right breakfast is the linchpin of many-a-workout. Eat too little – or nothing at all – and you’ll run out of fuel. Eat too much and you’ll feel sluggish and uncomfortable. I’ve posted before on foods that energize, and have written about the importance of eating the right amount of food with enough time [...]
Quick and Healthy Parmesan Asparagus with Balsamic Reduction
The other morning I made a simple Parmesan asparagus with balsamic reduction for brunch. It turned out great and tasted terrific. Aside from flavor, there are so many other reasons why Asparagus is up at the top of my list of favorite vegetables. Prebiotics: We’ve all heard of probiotics, or good bacteria for your belly, [...]
All About Acai – The Berry That Beats All Berries
It’s hard to turn a corner without running into a product or advertisement touting the amazing benefits of the Acai Berry. Pronounced ah-sigh-ee, the berry itself has been around thousands of years and consumed largely in the Amazon. This powerful berry finally made its way to mainstream culture in the 1990s. Today you can find [...]
