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By: Emily Barr, MS,RD,CNSC Your One Month Check-Up We are approaching the 1 month marker into our new year, 2013. The year we made ourselves promise that starting January 1st (or 2nd!) we would flip the switch to better health. So here is the question, how are those resolutions going? Most of us are probably […]
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Stop the Seasonal Sabotage! By Emily Barr, MS,RD,CNSC – Holiday gatherings bring out the best cookbooks filled with cheesy, oh-so-savory appetizers, creamed casseroles, and ooey-gooey desserts. By preparing these high fat, sodium, and sugar filled recipes, we are committing seasonal sabotage. And worse of all, we are committing it against our favorite people – our beloved family
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Halloween time may bring the skeletons out of the closet, or change our adorable little kids into dancing little skeleton costumes, and there is skeleton décor hanging all around until the haunted night of October 31st! But what if the skeletons aren’t just for Halloween? The Skinny Gene Project has been using a diet “skeleton”
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They say “the secret to someone’s heart is through their stomach”. Show your child how much you love them by sending them to school with a lunch box full of an assortment of enjoyable (and healthy) foods! Let’s face it, the same old sandwich, chips, and apple can be rather boring to a child (or
By Emily Barr, MS,RD,CNSC – The number one excuse for skipping a workout is (and I quote) “I don’t have enough time!” Usually this line is followed by more excuses including your children’s schedules, your work schedules, house hold chores, or lack of sleep. Time is valuable, in order to utilize every opportunity you have
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By Emily Barr, MS,RD,CNSC Water balloons, water parks, and water colors are all components of summertime fun, but what about drinking water? Most people do not find drinking water to be all that fun, and they often time fall short of their fluid goal leaving them in a state of dehydration. Unfortunately, water is essential
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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.
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“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.”
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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
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