Why I Don’t Have Nutrition Info for My Recipes
I often get requests for the nutrition information (calorie count, fat grams, etc.) for my recipes, but as you may have noticed, there are none.
How to Read and Understand Ingredient Labels (and Why)
Have you ever been tempted to buy a healthy-looking fruit bar only to discover that those fruit bars don’t even contain any fruit!? Or maybe you wanted some guacamole dip, but then after reading the ingredient list you discover there are no avocados in the dip? This is …
Are All Calories Created Equal?
Many diet programs teach that successful weight loss boils down to one thing: You have to burn more calories than you take in. Calories in versus calories out. But does it really work that way?
What Is the Difference Between Herbs and Spices?
I often hear the words herbs and spices used interchangeably, but they are actually very different seasonings and they have different effects on the health.
10 Easy Ways to Eat Healthier
Sometimes making the switch to a healthier diet can be just about as overwhelming/boring as doing taxes. But it doesn’t have to be. There are many small – read easy – steps you can take to make eating healthier easy and delicious!
Putting even one or two of them into practice can make a huge difference. Here are a few ideas:
Which is More Fattening – Butter or Margarine? And a recipe for Avocado Butter
Butter vs margarine – which is more fattening? It’s a debate that’s all over the internet with some crazy so-called “facts” on both sides of the argument.
The truth?
The Beautiful Bean
While there may be no such thing as a magic weight-loss pill, the high-fiber, low-calorie, extremely nutritious legume comes very close.
Six Ways to Help Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Approximately five percent of Americans (three-fourths of them women) suffer from seasonal affective disorder (also known as SAD) in the winter as daily sunlight hours dwindle. Here’s what you can do to cheer up your winter time.
10 Healthy and Slimming Recipes for a Healthy You
A recent poll revealed that 52 percent of Americans felt it was easier to do their taxes than figure out how to eat healthy. So, I’m offering a little help (not with your taxes, but with eating healthier). Here are 10 healthy recipes to get you started on a new year of healthier eating.
Healthy Holiday Recipes
The holiday season is here but there’s no need to get out your Santa pants. This year, keep your holidays light and healthy with these guilt-free holiday recipes.
How to Go Gluten-Free
Everything you every wanted to know about eating gluten free – from whether a gluten-free diet is right for you, to what foods are gluten-free, to how to lose weight on a gluten free diet.
Apples
Six healthy, diet-friendly recipes for those luscious, autumn apples.
Five Foods that Fight Fat
Five foods that fight fat and actually help you lose weight the more you eat them!
Free Weight Loss Class and Google Reader
You’ve probably heard that Google Reader is closing up shop. This means that if you
Can Diet Food Make You Fat?
As I walked through the frozen-food aisle at the grocery store the other day, I was really struck by the effusive array of diet foods. The words “fat-free”, “lite”, “low-calorie”, “lean”, and “low-fat” were everywhere.
10 Slimming Recipes for a Skinny New Year
Christmas cookies, chocolate éclairs, cheesecake, and gingerbread …. Every bite tasted so good a couple of weeks ago, but now they may be biting back. After the holiday binging season with its richer-than-usual-food is past, many are pondering how to…
The Skinny on Resolutions
Year after year, losing weight is among the top five New Year’s resolutions for the average American. And yet the vast majority of those resolutions go unfulfilled. Why? Counting calories, reducing portion sizes, restricting carbs, and even attempting a vigorous…
Nut Case
This study (which included more that 120,000 people over a 20-year period) showed that a moderate consumption of nuts – yes, high calorie nuts – can actually help with weight loss.
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