By Maria Crompton, a fitness guru and personal trainer with Fit for Life in San Diego, California. If you’re reading this, you know how important exercise is. However, there are right ways to exercise and there are wrong ways. In order to get the greatest benefit from your workout and prevent possible injury, you’ve got to do it […]
Fad diets make a lot of promises, but usually fail to deliver long-term success. Although they do a lot wrong, like promise rapid weight loss, limit food groups, and are too strict, there is a lot we can learn from fad diets that will allow us to live a healthy lifestyle.
Exercise isn’t just a good way to take your mind off eating; it may curb your appetite, too. The results suggest that when a craving hits, weight watchers are better off going for a jog than pumping iron.
Since my daughter was born, we tried to be a living example of what it means to live a healthy lifestyle. When I see the world through my daughter’s eyes, I see plenty of negative temptations, but I also see hope. She is surrounded by so many people, parents, aunties and uncles, neighbors and friends, all helping to challenge what has become “the norm” and instead promote living healthfully.
“Is a calorie a calorie? A calorie may be a calorie when people talk about weight loss and nothing else, there are other factors involved. And once you get past my perhaps lame “Is a calorie a calorie” question, you can begin to see something approaching the truth.
For one thing, says Nestle: “There are dozens of factors involved in weight regulation. It’s hard to lose weight, because the body is set up to defend fat, so you don’t starve to death; the body doesn’t work as well to tell people to stop eating as when to tell them when to start.”
By Emily Barr, MS,RD,CNSC – 1. Kale – 1 cup raw provides: 34 calories, 6.71 grams carbohydrate of which 1.3 grams is fiber, excellent source of Vitamin A (515 mcg RAE) and C (80.4 mg), good source of Calcium (90 mg) and Potassium (299 mg) 2. Asparagus – 4 cooked spears provides: 13
Pin It By Emily Barr, MS,RD,CNSC A recent post in Medical News Today highlighted the practice of hiding veget ables in our children’s foods to help them reach their goal of 5+ servings of vegetables per day. Their conclusion was “that it is more important for parents to openly feed their children a variety of vegetables
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Pin It By Emily Barr, MS,RD,CNSC Green represents a lot of terrific things, like “being green” is good for the environment and “making the green” is good for your wallet. And if you like Saint Patty’s day, you will be sporting some green attire for good luck. What about eating your greens? You never felt
Pin It In preparation for St. Patrick’s day, we asked a few Skinny Gene members for their kid-tested, mother- approved green recipes. We had the opportunity to see several 4 and 5 yr old children devour this particular recipe for Broccoli Mac and Cheese, so we thought, why not share it with you. The