Category: Nutrition
The Cereal Bowl Diet Challenge
Sometimes the easiest ways to manage your weight are the simplest. Buying into all sorts of crazy diets supported by expensively packaged products, or cutting back on calories far too much do nothing but shock our wallets and our bodies – often in damaging ways. If people suddenly experience weight loss as the result of a [...]
Exercise + Coffee = A New You?
A recent study published in Cell Metabolism suggests that coffee just before a workout in combination with exercise could be the one-two punch your body needs to change your DNA, better adapting to exertion. When it comes to exercise, the study revealed that our genes were turned “on” by regular exercise, thus increasing our degree of adaptation to [...]
Four Lunchtime Food Fouls
Every now and then I like to do a quick round up of a foods that don’t do our bodies any favors. Today’s post is about popular, but not-so-healthy lunch foods – and alternatives that make them a little bit better. Egg Salad Sandwiches Nothing against eggs – I think they’re great, but it’s all [...]
Diet Disaster Diversions
We all eat – sometimes not so healthy. Here area some alternatives to a few all-too-common diet disasters. BREAKFAST No Fat = No Good: It’s time to start your engines! If breakfast is ever a problem, it’s due to one of two (or possibly both) reasons: 1) there is a fixation on eating very little [...]
Can apples really pack on the pounds?
Could you ever imagine eating a healthy, balanced diet that is entirely void of fruit? Sounds almost counter intuitive, doesn’t it? After all, fruit contains vital minerals and nutrients that our body needs. Last week, a friend mentioned that someone had told him the apples he regularly ate throughout the day will do nothing but [...]
Is Your Diet Making You Age Faster?
There’s a lot to be said for being wiser than your years, but looking older than your years? I think not. Food plays a big role in how we feel, as well as how we look. Drink plenty of water, sleep, eat fruits and vegetables and try to minimize intake of these three skin crushers. Sugar Arguably [...]
3 Foods that Will Help You Live Longer
This trio of amazing foods fight cancer, reduce inflammation and rid the body of toxic heavy metals. The list could certainly be longer than three foods, but these super-functional lifesavers make it to the top. Here’s the scoop on the foods and the ailments they battle. Cilantro This amazing herb, often found in Latin American, [...]
Low-fat, Schmo-fat! Part Deux
Last Tuesday, MSNBC ran a story recapping a study that was recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The bottom line of the piece (via the results of the study) suggested that it makes no difference where you get your calories – protein, carbs or fat. As long as you stick to one diet, [...]
4 Healthy and Fit Super Bowl Weekend Rituals
To millions of Americans, football is like religion and Superbowl Sunday is the most sacred of all sports-related holidays. Even if you’re not a huge football fan, there is a very strong possibility that you’re going to a party – that is if you’re not hosting one of your own. How many times have you [...]
29 Days + 1 Body = Amazing Changes
The 29 Great Days Challenge kicks off today! February is National Health Month, so what better day to start a month-long resolution that will make you healthier while motivating others! What did you do yesterday that made you healthier today? That’s the magic question, and the answer could be anything that makes you healthier in any way, [...]
