Melting Away Chocolate Myths
Chocolate! It’s loved so much that the average American eats about 13 pounds of the heavenly stuff a year. However, instead of pleasing your palate, you’re likely to end up a glutton for guilt!...
Category: Diet
Eat Right… Every Day
Healthy eating often becomes a focus when you’re trying to lose weight, train for an athletic event, or meet some other specific health goal. But good nutrition isn’t just for now and then; eating...
Fish, Protein, Best Fish to Eat
When you are preparing for a competition, maximizing your weight loss or just getting some seafood, you need to know the best fish to eat. Fish high in the omeg-3 fats and that taste...
Break-fast
Everyone fasts when they sleep. The first meal you eat when you awake breaks your fast… hence the term breakfast. But breaking the fast doesn’t mean eating fast. Hurried eating can cause heartburn and...
Exercising Restraint
A little indulgence is okay. But overindulgence can lead to unhealthy habits, even addictions, and threaten to overtake your personal command. Self-control, especially when it comes to what you put into your body, is...
The Raw Truth
The premise behind the raw food diet rests on the notion that living cells require living nutrients (such as uncooked vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts) as opposed to foods that have been heated —...
Organic or Conventional?
Cost can dictate whether or not you buy organic food. If you’re unsure what’s worth the extra money, follow some of these helpful hints. Avoid the conventional versions of the dirty dozen. When it...
Addiction to Sodium Causes Health Problems
First it was trans fats. Then it was calorie-laden fast foods. Now sodium is on the front line of the nutrition wars. Nine out 10 Americans eat too much it, according to the Centers...
Health Diet – South Beach
You’re super-organized, and are willing to put in the time to follow a complicated plan if the results pay off. Diet to try – South Beach is a well-balanced, three-phase plan created by cardiologist...
Great foods to try in your diet
Agave nectar Agave nectar was prized by the Aztecs as a gift from the gods. A natural sweetener and a healthier alternative to sugar and honey, the nectar (sometimes called syrup) has a consistency...
Diet plan – Jillian Michaels
Even if you’ve always been into exercise, what with your desk job, your kids, and only 24 hours in a day, it’s easy for a few extra pounds to sneak onto your once-flat stomach....
Diet Plan – Weight Watchers
Whether it’s pitching in on the PTA fundraiser or getting the gang together for a girls’ night out, there’s nothing you love better than spending time with your friends. Diet to try Weight Watchers...
Diet Plan – Jenny Craig
Your busy workweek leaves you no time to think, let alone cook. You’re lucky if you remember to feed the dog, much less whip up an egg-white omelet before racing off to make the...
Volumetrics Eating Plan
You know your way around the kitchen and love to whip up meals from scratch. There’s only one down side to your lifestyle. The temptation of all that good food is ever-present. Diet to...
Zone Diet
When you have tweens and teens, you spend a lot of time in the car, driving them to soccer practice, music lessons, and sleepovers. You know how frustrating all that chauffeuring can feel –...
Diet Plan for Perfect Fit
Why is it so hard to lose weight? You may be choosing a diet that doesn’t fit the realities of your life. You can lose weight on practically any diet that cuts down on...
Genetically Modified Organisms
GMOs – you’ve probably heard of them. But what you may not have heard is that according to industry estimates, GMOs are in 80 percent of the food products sold in conventional supermarkets. GMOs...
Dark Chocolates
Chocolate Musings Chocolate on Valentine’ Day doesn’t have to be a trite ritual. Invigorate a classic pairing with these luscious finds: Nicobella: Nichole Dandrea, nutritionist, registered dietician, and yoga instructor, always envisioned dark chocolate...
Breast Cancer Quiz
You’ve heard about family history and the importance it plays in your risk of developing breast cancer. However, there’s not much you can do to change your genetics. What can you do to prevent...
Get Your Fiber
Older adults who eat cereals with high fiber or dark breads may be helping to improve their heart health, shows new research. Researchers from the University of Washington analyzed data from more than 3,500...
Food solutions – Make Every Bite Count
Almost any sensible diet will work – if you follow it. Here’s help finding the one that’s right for your lifestyle. And if you need to jumpstart your weight loss for an upcoming event,...
Fast Foods And The Brain
It’s the constant struggle between your belly and your brain. You have a craving to chow down fast food, but you know it’s unhealthy. Or is it? Want french fries and a burger? Dietitians...
Fast Foods And Eating Out
Think high-fat foods like pizza, burgers and french fries don’t fit in a calorie-conscious low-fat diet? The latest news nutritionists are “dishing out” may be easy to swallow. Dietitian: “Fast food is a reality...
Planning a Mood
Carbohydrates calm you down and proteins lift you up, but how do you plan your meals throughout the day to best use these moody foods? Women typically juggle more than one job. Work all...
Moody Foods Power Proteins
Rhonda is constantly on the go…from graduate studies in nursing school to the basketball court. Her day begins early. There’s a 6 a.m. practice, class, lunch, back to class, workouts, study hall and ballgames....
Moody Foods Calming Carbohydrates
You may not think you’re in the mood for a diet, but experts say your diet can put you in a mood… Tension is tough to deal with. Some people resort to strong prescription...
Hidden dangers to diet pills
For many, diet pills can be the solution to years of living with obesity. But for some people there are hidden dangers to these pills. The problem arises during surgery when and if patients...
Weight Concerns in Teens
New research finds the use of extremely unhealthy weight loss methods by teens is “alarmingly high.” These extreme measures include taking diet pills, laxatives, diuretics or vomiting. This study of nearly 5,000 Minnesota teens...
Dangerous Dieting: Fad Diets
Have you tried to lose weight cutting carbohydrates, protein or fat? With America in the throes of an obesity crisis, the diet industry has taken off. But fad diets can hurt your health. If...
Anti-Cancer Onions
“An onion a day keeps the doctor away.” Not exactly the way you remember that phrase? Well, ancient Egyptians believed it. They used the lowly vegetable to treat everything from arthritis to asthma. George...