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…
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,…
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 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,…
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…
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…
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…
I hate to celebrate death of any kind, but my goodness, the USDA Food Guide Pyramid has bit the dust, adios amigos, died, gone, kaput and I’m one happy camper.…
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.…
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…