Category: Lifestyle
Eat Right for Your Body Type: the dinner edition
Over the last couple days, I’ve written about foods that are right for your body type. Today I’m moving onto dinnertime. Need a recap? You can always jump back to the breakfast edition and the lunch edition. Here are a couple ideas for dinner for each body type: Pear Shape Dinner [...]
Eat Right for Your Body Type: the lunch edition
Yesterday’s post gave a quick overview of eating right for your body type, along with healthy breakfast suggestions for pear shapes, apple shapes, athlete shapes and babyfaces. Today the focus is on lunch. These are meant to be simple, uncomplicated suggestions. Let me know if you have questions. Here’s what’s cooking: Pear Shape [...]
Eat Right for Your Body Type: the breakfast edition
If you’re one of the many who has made a New Year’s resolution to lose a few pounds, eating foods that are right for your body type will get you moving in the right direction. The most common body types are Pears, Apples, Athletes and Babyfaces. If we gain excessive weight, fat tends to accumulate in [...]
3 Tips to Lose 16 Pounds in 3 Months
Losing weight that stays off is easier than you think. Here are a few tips to lose up to 16 pounds in a few short months. Stop Eating When You’re Full: A lot of people continue to pick at food on the table or in the kitchen long after their stomach says, “enough!” Keep in [...]
Your Favorite Junk Foods, and How Long it Takes to Burn Them Off
A recent study done by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health showed that labeling soft drinks with information suggesting how long a person would have to jog to burn off calories consumed proved to be more effective than labeling with calories alone in four Baltimore inner-city neighborhoods. It’s no secret that many of [...]
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 [...]
What Would Happen if You Never Exercised Again?
Let’s say you stay active, to some degree, most days of the week. Then one day you decide to call it quits for one reason or another. Maybe it’s an injury, work, a relationship or sheer boredom. Regardless, you hang up your running shoes and close the drawer on your workout clothes for good. What [...]
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 [...]
Healthy Tips for the Holiday Traveler
Whether you’re traveling by car, plane or just walking downstairs to your living room – it’s easy to fall out of the healthy eating and exercise routine at the height of the holiday season. No one can be perfect, but there are numerous things you can do to try to counter some of the excesses [...]
My Big Fat Gluten Free Diet
If you walked into a restaurant ten years ago and requested food that was gluten free, you’d have probably been out of luck. Today gluten free items are staples on many restaurants, and flood the aisles of mainstream grocery stores. People living with celiac disease have an allergic reaction to gluten and have to avoid [...]
