Nutrition
« Previous EntriesEat Less, Lose Weight - Makes Sense
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009You have probably heard that in France they eat bread and cheese and sip wine all day. How do they do it? Researchers believe it is the size of the portions they eat that makes the difference. The belief is that Americans will feel deprived of the value they are receiving or feel less sated with smaller [...]
All-You-Can-Eat Buffets are Back
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008We all know the economy is tight, people are worried about their personal finances and everyone is looking to stretch the dollar further. All you can eat buffets are making a come back because they satisfy the desire to eat out at a restaurant as well as make us feel we are getting our money’s worth.
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Start the New Year with a Healthy Holiday Recipes
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Typically you think if something tastes good it must be fattening but that’s not necessarily the case. There are plenty of low fat and delicious meals you can prepare for yourself, your friends and your family. Once you start eating healthy it’s funny how you develop the taste for that over the junk food you [...]
Holiday Nutritional Best Bets
Saturday, December 13th, 2008A typical holiday meal can pack in 3500 to 6000 calories! That’s 2 to 4 days worth of total food intake. As good as that meal may look, it isn’t worth the excessive calories so here are three tips to help you scale back on the calories
If you must have seconds of something on the [...]
Eating and Body Image Disorders - Muscle Dysmorphia
Thursday, November 27th, 2008This next series of blog posts are written with the intention of understanding better the different eating and/ or body image disorders that are out there. As a Fitness Trainer I have seen and heard all sorts of complaints, diagnosis, heard people speak about other members and had people speak about me and honestly, most [...]
Eating and Body Image Disorders - Overeating
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008I never realized that overeating could be characterized as an eating disorder. I figured overeating was just a bad habit gone awry. Compulsive overeating is defined as having an addiction to food and using food as a way to hide emotional issues. Compulsive overeaters tend to eat to hide their feelings and to cope with [...]
Healthy Thanksgiving in 08
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008If you are anything like me, you are not a big fan, no change that, you have zero desire to cook a Thanksgiving meal. Heck, I don’t like cooking any meals. I actually don’t love Thanksgiving food. One year I wanted to start a new family tradition of Thanksgiving pizza and that went over like [...]
Cheeseburgers: Buffalo versus Cow
Monday, November 10th, 2008I love cheeseburgers. I don’t think that one line really conveys how I feel. I LOVE CHEESEBURGERS! That may be closer to how I feel. The problem, of course, is that these are not necessarily a healthy meal choice. Pictured here is a buffalo cheeseburger I had recently at Fuddruckers. The menu said buffalo meat [...]
Children and Obesity - The News Keeps Getting Worse
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Gone are the days when kids would play outside after school, riding their bikes until Mom called out, “Dinner!” Nowadays our children are playing X-Box or whatever the latest games are and this means they are not moving around, getting the much needed exercise their young bodies require. Ten or fifteen years ago we weren’t [...]
Things that junk food distributors don’t want you to know, Pt 7
Sunday, October 26th, 2008This is the last in the series of information blogs detailing what the junk food industry would prefer you did not know. Our children are facing an epidemic in their lives that we hold the cure for. A child is not able to drive thru the local fast food burger joint or shop at the [...]
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