Need breakfast to lose weight? Maybe not!
Smoothie time For years, weight management experts have staunchly promoted eating breakfast (I prefer to call it your ‘morning meal’) as a mainstay of a weight loss diet. Well, hold…
Get on track to heart health
February is the heart-shaped holder of Valentine’s Day. It’s also National Heart Month. Can’t have a loving heart unless it’s healthy. So let’s talk about disease and death first. Then,…
Breakfast skippers eat more
Cold cereal has taken a bad rap nutrition-wise. Hold on before you dump it in the compost. Researching breakfast habits of 10,000 kids and adolescents showed those who ate any…
Skipping meals backfires
Skipping meals is a common practice among people trying to lose weight. We skip breakfast, eat a very small lunch and then plan to have a normal evening meal. Unfortunately,…
Veg 101 – What You Really Need to Know to Move Toward a Plant-Based Diet
Vegetarians are healthier than omnivores. It’s true. Research has shown that vegetarians have less heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and other significant diseases that reduce quality of life. And that…
Marvelous Mighty Magnificent Muesli
A powerhouse mixture of grains and dried fruit, muesli adds punch to your morning. Muesli is an old standby, in fact, from the late 1800’s. Mostly whole grains, nuts, seeds…
Short on time…long on pizza
If you’re short on time but really craving some fast food pizza, start with a frozen plain cheese pizza. Then add baby spinach or arugula leaves, broccoli florets, sliced red…
Where’s the fat?
Brutal, I say! The PCRM (Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine) gets brutal. I agree with them most of the time and agree those they pound on furiously oft deserve it.…
Staying healthy while you travel
Dialing up our weekly call, Suzy client laments, “I’m on a plane so much this week, how am I supposed to feel good about my body?” Having more frequent flyer…