Chelsea Handler’s nutritionist, Mark MacDonald, author of The New York Times best-seller BODY CONFIDENCE: Venice Nutrition’s 3-Step System that Unlocks Your Body’s Full Potential (HarperCollins) spells out the real secret to enjoying the holiday season while maintaining your figure: Eat consistently before the meal – Starving yourself “in preparation” for an off-plan feast wreaks havoc [...]
September 13 is National Celiac Awareness Day. Celiac disease, an ailment that was once little-known and misunderstood, is now one of the most commonly talked-about diseases in existence today. In fact, it is estimated that 1 in 133 Americans have celiac disease and an estimated 2 million people remain unaware that they are affected by [...]
As much as it saddens me (and my bank account) not to have a miracle pill, complex diet plan or ridiculous workout regime to offer to readers and clients who want to lose weight I am happy to say I can provide clear, common sense backed by research and science. The secret to weight loss [...]
Mind Over Meal: Nine Tips to Help You Pass Up Food Cravings Food cravings have been known to break down even the most iron wills and spoil the healthiest eating plans. According to Dr. Joyce Nash, though, you don’t have to let urges to eat run your life and ruin your diet. Boulder, CO [...]
Food for Thought: Five Signs That Backyard Gardening Might Soon Be a Survival Skill 1. Rising produce prices. The grass has ’riz and so has the price of most foods, which is particularly devastating just now when so many Americans are unemployed, underemployed, retired or retiring, or on declining or fixed incomes. In some American [...]
Simple, Fresh & Healthy: A Collection of Seasonal Recipes comes from the famous garden center and market of Linda Hafner and her husband Chuck in Syracuse, NY – Chuck Hafner’s Farmers Market and Garden Center ( www.chuckhafner.com). Visually appetizing recipes are built from Linda’s farm-fresh focus and cover every page of the book set to [...]
Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 years increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 19 years increased from 5.0% to 18.1%.1,2 Obesity is the result of caloric imbalance (too [...]
Yesterday we made Sweet Potato Bake with Apple, you can watch a video and read more here. Today I dabbled around the kitchen because I love to cook and I love to re-invent food for vegans like me (and I hear President Clinton too!) This afternoon I prepared something I have been craving for a [...]
