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• Vegans Low Cholesterol High In Triglycerides ?

  Healthy Eating & Nutrition News

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am

  Foods High In Triglycerides | ** The guide to triglycerides **Gin - Vegan Mother's Ruin ?Plantarians, Vegetarians who avoid dairy and vegans should all enjoy lower than average cholesterol levels but it seems that vegans are not necessarily immune to high trigyceride levels which can be just as damaging. Alcohol, sugary foods and a diet rich in simple carbohydrates, as well as a lack of sufficient exercise, all contribute to higher tryglyceride levels.London Nutritionist from Foods for Life Health and Nutrition clinic in London's Harley Street and author of The UK Vegetarian Society's V…

• Does eating mustard help build muscles?

  NutritionResearchCenter.org

  Vic Shayne PhD

  11 Oct 2011 | 3:47 am

  Creative Commons License photo credit: J M F Photography New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that rats fed homobrassinolide, found in the mustard plant, produced an anabolic effect, and increased appetite and muscle mass, as well as the number and size of muscle fibers. If you are looking to lean out, add muscle mass, and get ripped, a new research report published in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that you might want to look to your garden for a little help. That’s because scientists have found that when a specific plant steroid was given orally to rats,…

• School obesity programs may promote worrisome eating behaviors and physical activity in kids

  ScienceDaily: Nutrition News

  24 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm

  A new report examines the possible association between school-based childhood obesity prevention programs and an increase in eating disorders among young children and adolescents. In a new poll, 30% of parents report at least one worrisome behavior in their children that could be associated with the development of eating disorders.

• The Fat Trap

  NYT > Fitness & Nutrition

  By TARA PARKER-POPE

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:59 pm

  In the battle to lose weight, and keep it off, our bodies are fighting against us.

• High animal fat diet increases gestational diabetes risk, study finds

  ScienceDaily: Nutrition News

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:34 pm

  Women who consumed a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol before pregnancy were at higher risk for gestational diabetes than women whose diets were lower in animal fat and cholesterol, according to researchers.

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• The Importance Of Metabolism In Understanding Health Benefits Of Cocoa Flavanols: Recent Study By Mars, Incorporated And Partners

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  A comprehensive investigation of flavanol absorption and metabolism has provided a critical step forward in our understanding of how cocoa flavanols work in the body to exert their circulatory and cardiovascular benefits...

• New Standard For Vitamin D Testing To Ensure Accurate Test Results

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate. The report appears in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry...

• Position Statement On The Role Of Vitamin D In Postmenopausal Women Published In Maturitas

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the publication of a position statement by the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in journal Maturitas on the role of vitamin D in postmenopausal women with summary recommendations. Vitamin D deficiency is common and may affect up to 70% of Europeans...

• More Black Tea Lowers Blood Pressure

  26 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm

  Tea, the second most consumed drink after water, may help lower blood pressure. Scientists at The University Of Western Australia and Unilever, state in Archives of Internal Medicine, that drinking black tea three times a day may drastically lower a person's systolic and diastolic blood pressure...

• Frying Food in Olive or Sunflower Oil Better For Heart

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  According to a study published on bmj.com, heart disease or premature death is not associated with consuming food fried in sunflower or olive oil. The study was conducted in Spain, a country in the Mediterranean where sunflower or olive oil is used for frying...

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• High animal fat diet increases gestational diabetes risk, study finds

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:34 pm

  Women who consumed a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol before pregnancy were at higher risk for gestational diabetes than women whose diets were lower in animal fat and cholesterol, according to researchers.

• Limiting protein or certain amino acids before surgery may reduce risk of surgical complications

  25 Jan 2012 | 1:31 pm

  Limiting certain essential nutrients for several days before surgery -- either protein or amino acids -- may reduce the risk of serious surgical complications such as heart attack or stroke, according to a new study.

• New standard for vitamin D testing to ensure accurate test results

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:19 am

  At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate.

• Food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease, Spanish study finds

  24 Jan 2012 | 5:41 pm

  Eating food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease or premature death, a new study finds. The authors stress, however, that their study took place in Spain, a Mediterranean country where olive or sunflower oil is used for frying and their results would probably not be the same in another country where solid and re-used oils were used for frying.

• School obesity programs may promote worrisome eating behaviors and physical activity in kids

  24 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm

  A new report examines the possible association between school-based childhood obesity prevention programs and an increase in eating disorders among young children and adolescents. In a new poll, 30% of parents report at least one worrisome behavior in their children that could be associated with the development of eating disorders.

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  Nutrition News

• Off-Campus Party Hosts Drank Most in College Survey

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Guzzling some 9 alcoholic beverages each event, student hosts outdid their guests

• Tropical Trip OK for Most With Crohn's, Colitis

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Symptom-free patients have no greater risk for gastro infections than general public, study finds

• Common Gastro Disease Occurs Even With High-Fiber Diet

  27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am

  Eating less fiber was linked to lower diverticulosis risk in study, but no proof of cause and effect

• Caffeine May Alter Women's Estrogen Levels

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  But effect is different in Asians, whites, study says

• U.S. Soldiers Face Host of Mental Health Issues

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Studies found they were prone to depression, substance abuse and suicide

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  NYT > Fitness & Nutrition

• New Jersey Dining | Health Club Cafes: Cafes at Health Clubs Stress Eating Right

  By KELLY FEENEY

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:59 pm

  Many on-site cafes, geared to serve fitness-conscious exercisers with choices like vegetarian and gluten-free cuisine, are open to nonmembers, too.

• How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body

  By WILLIAM J. BROAD

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:59 pm

  Popped ribs, brain injuries, blinding pain. Are the healing rewards worth the risks?

• The Fat Trap

  By TARA PARKER-POPE

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:59 pm

  In the battle to lose weight, and keep it off, our bodies are fighting against us.

• Eat: No Meat, No Dairy, No Problem

  By MARK BITTMAN

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:59 pm

  Going semi-vegan: a resolution with no downside.

• Brown Fat Burns Ordinary Fat, Study Finds

  By GINA KOLATA

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:50 pm

  In separate studies, researchers have determined that in cold conditions, people’s calorie-gobbling brown fat uses ordinary fat as fuel — and that exercise may convert ordinary fat to brown fat.

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• Matt Roberts' motivational tips

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:23 am

  Matt Roberts, he’s a man that knows a thing or two about fitness and he kindly gave us some not-so-kind words about our (lack of) exercise. However, his positive attitude and sobering truths on the nation’s exercise habits have inspired us to up the fitness ante and stick to those New Year resolutions. Hopefully he’ll have the same effect on you too.

• Top 10 health and fitness world records

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Lacking motivation for healthy living? Get inspired by these incredible world records which push the boundaries of health and fitness.

• Low-calorie dinner ideas

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:16 am

  Simple and delicious dinner recipes to help you lose weight fast, that clock in at max 500 calories and only 15g fat

• Top 10 lunchtime workouts

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:57 am

  For some, lunchtime may be the only opportunity in the day they have to fit in a workout. By making use of this workout window you can fit in a useful session, which if maintained, will enable your fitness to come on leaps and bounds.

• Heart risks 'not as suggested'

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:05 pm

  Doctors may be giving middle-aged men and women a false sense of security about their chances of suffering a heart attack or stroke, research suggests.

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  Healthy Eating & Nutrition News

• Vegans Low Cholesterol High In Triglycerides ?

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am

  Foods High In Triglycerides | ** The guide to triglycerides **Gin - Vegan Mother's Ruin ?Plantarians, Vegetarians who avoid dairy and vegans should all enjoy lower than average cholesterol levels but it seems that vegans are not necessarily immune to high trigyceride levels which can be just as damaging. Alcohol, sugary foods and a diet rich in simple carbohydrates, as well as a lack of sufficient exercise, all contribute to higher tryglyceride levels.London Nutritionist from Foods for Life Health and Nutrition clinic in London's Harley Street and author of The UK Vegetarian Society's V…

• UK children and adults lack Vitamin D

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:56 am

  Yvonne Bishop-Weston Nutritionist London: 25% UK toddlers lacking Vitamin DLack of of Vitamin D linked to depression by Bristol University study.Ain't no sunshine? Then she's gone! Vitamin D deficiency rocks Britain's health The Independent - BBC NewsGovernment advice to take supplements? I think you'll find we told you so, many times, but just in case we'll tell you again about the importance of Vitamin D...Back in 2009 we blogged about a study linking vitamin D to increased health risks , and on numerous other occasions including this one about Nutrients Men aren't getting enough of .We…

• Vegetarian / Vegan Omega 3 EPA DHA vs Fish Oil Supplements

  11 Dec 2011 | 8:58 am

  Vegetarian / Vegan Omega 3 EPA DHA vs Fish Oil Supplements « NuiqueCompare the Market - Fish OilFish Oil vs omega 3 algaeA look at different long chain Omega 3 essential fatty acids on the market comparing strength per dose of DHA / EPA for popular fish oil brands compared to algae oil omega 3 DHA suitable for vegetarians and vegansComparison showed similar priced products but with Cod liver oil 85mg DHA per dose to Algae oil with 400mg per dose.V PureNutritionists London

• Processed and Unprocessed Red Meat Consumption and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Among French Women

  2 Dec 2011 | 4:18 pm

  Processed and Unprocessed Red Meat Consumption and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Among French WomenProcessed and Unprocessed Red Meat Consumption and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Among French Women Martin Lajous, DSC12,Laura Tondeur, MS3,Guy Fagherazzi, PHD34,Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain, PHD3, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruaualt, PHD34 and Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, PHD34+ Author Affiliations 1Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 2Center for Research on Population Health, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Mexico 3INSERM, Center for Research in…

• Yvonne Bishop-Weston Nutritionist London: Win Gift Voucher - London Nutritionist

  1 Dec 2011 | 8:37 am

  Yvonne Bishop-Weston Nutritionist London: Win Gift Voucher - London NutritionistMerry Christmas!Nutritionists London

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• The Olive Oil Industry is Full of Fraud — you may not be eating the real thing

  Vic Shayne PhD

  24 Jan 2012 | 11:04 am

  by Vic Shayne, PhD If you don’t know what goes on in the olive oil industry, chances are you maybe eating olive oil that’s not really olive oil. Massive fraud The olive oil industry is riddled with fraudulent practices. Most olive oil is a low-grade mixture of olive oil and canola oil that has been deodorized and artificially colored — even if the label states “extra virgin, cold pressed.” Even if (and most likely) the label states that it was made in Italy. Restaurant “olive oil” isn’t Restaurants the world over are offering their patrons a brand…

• Beans, beans…they’re good for your health?

  Vic Shayne PhD

  20 Dec 2011 | 3:00 am

  Creative Commons License photo credit: bradleypjohnson by Vic Shayne, PhD Professor Maurice Bennink, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, says eating beans can reduce malnutrition and chronic diseases. Bennink says, “Chronic diseases (certain types of cancer, Type II diabetes, heart disease, and other diseases of the blood system) typically take many years (10 to 30 years) to develop. Chronic diseases are the most common causes of death in industrialized countries and they significantly lower the quality of life for millions.” But hold on a minute!

• Eating more fruits, vegetables and grains results in fewer strokes for women

  Vic Shayne PhD

  15 Dec 2011 | 3:00 am

  Swedish women studied for antioxidant-rich diet Swedish women who ate an antioxidant-rich diet had fewer strokes regardless of whether they had a previous history of cardiovascular disease, in a study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.Antioxidant foods inhibit oxidative stress and inflammation “Eating antioxidant-rich foods may reduce your risk of stroke by inhibiting oxidative stress and inflammation,” said Susanne Rautiainen, M.Sc., the study’s first author and Ph.D. student at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. “This means people should eat more foods…

• Diverticulitis: trouble brewing in the bowels

  Vic Shayne PhD

  14 Nov 2011 | 4:16 pm

  Diverticulitis is a condition wherein there is inflammation in the bowel. Doctors frequently tell patients not to eat nuts and other “rough” foods, but this admonition has recently been shown to be of little value. Michael Picco, MD, writing for Mayo Clinic, states: “In the past, many doctors recommended that people with diverticulosis avoid seeds and nuts, including foods with small seeds, such as tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries. It was thought that these tiny particles could lodge in the diverticula and cause inflammation (diverticulitis). But there is no scientific…

• Does eating mustard help build muscles?

  Vic Shayne PhD

  11 Oct 2011 | 3:47 am

  Creative Commons License photo credit: J M F Photography New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that rats fed homobrassinolide, found in the mustard plant, produced an anabolic effect, and increased appetite and muscle mass, as well as the number and size of muscle fibers. If you are looking to lean out, add muscle mass, and get ripped, a new research report published in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that you might want to look to your garden for a little help. That’s because scientists have found that when a specific plant steroid was given orally to rats,…

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• Grape seed extract kills head and neck cancer cells

  28 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  A study published in the journal Carcinogenesis shows that in both cell lines and mouse models, grape seed extract kills head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells, while leaving healthy cells unharmed

• Does Exposure to This Heavy Metal Cause Learning Delays?

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  Children with high levels of the heavy metal cadmium in their urine may be more likely to have learning disabilities and/or need special education, a new study shows.

• High animal fat diet increases gestational diabetes risk

  26 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  Women who consumed a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol before pregnancy were at higher risk for gestational diabetes than women whose diets were lower in animal fat and cholesterol

• Cocoa could prevent intestinal pathologies such as colon cancer

  25 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  A new study on living animals has shown for the first time that eating cocoa (the raw material in chocolate) can help to prevent intestinal complaints linked to oxidative stress, including colon carcinogenesis onset caused by chemical substances

• Diets high in fiber won't protect against diverticulosis

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  For more than 40 years, scientists and physicians have thought eating a high-fiber diet lowered a person's risk of diverticulosis, a disease of the large intestine in which pouches develop in the colon wall

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• Get the FAQs about nutrition

  25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am

  Who doesn't have questions about nutrition? Our dietitians answer five of the most common diet questions.

• Restaurant trends — What's on the menu for 2012?

  17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am

  If predicted restaurant trends pan out, expect to see healthier options on menus in 2012.

• Taking off the holiday pounds

  4 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am

  Don't let the weight you gained over the holidays hang around all year. See how to take off those unwanted pounds.

• Put the fruit back in fruitcake

  21 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am

  Try this delicious fruitcake recipe that puts the fruit back in fruitcake.

• Healthy holiday eating — Remakes of favorite recipes

  13 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am

  Healthy holiday eating — try these simple tips to cut the fat, sugar and salt.

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  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue

• Calendar of Events [Calendar of Events]

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm

• Reply to N Herzog et al [Letters to the Editor]

  St-Onge, M.-P., Shechter, A., O'Keeffe, M.

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm

• Compromised sleep increases food intake in humans: two sexes, same response? [Letters to the Editor]

  Herzog, N., Jauch-Chara, K., Oltmanns, K. M., Benedict, C.

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm

• Reply to M-A Gaud et al [Letters to the Editor]

  Byrne, N. M., Groves, A. M., McIntyre, H. D., Callaway, L. K., for the BAMBINO Group

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm

• Gestational weight gain: arguments for a transgenerational weight-control process [Letters to the Editor]

  Gaud, M.-A., Frasquet-Darrieux, M., Ingrand, P., Hankard, R., Glomot, F., Christin, P., Compain, F., Bucco, C., Pierre, F.

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm

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  Mostly Eating

• A ruby red brussels sprout and gruyere salad

  sophie

  11 Jan 2012 | 3:10 pm

  For three years in a row I have tried to grow my own brussels sprout ‘rubine’, the beautiful crimson flecked cousin of the common green brussel, and for three years I have failed. Brussels sprouts need care, love and attention right from sowing the seeds in March, through planting out the baby brassicas in early summer (protecting them from our cheeky chickens and the slugs until they are strong enough to stand alone), and then onwards to the first frost for that all important flavour boost. After three years of failure  I thought that it was just not meant to be. My humble…

• How to make healthy eating incredibly simple this year (2012 revisit)

  sophie

  1 Jan 2012 | 9:19 am

  A year ago today I was writing about new years resolutions and how to have a big impact on health without spending the first weeks of the new year prioritising complicated, short-lived unrealistic goals.  The post I wrote then struck a chord with a lot of people looking for a simpler way to focus their efforts on feeding themselves well throughout the year. I’ve just been re-reading that post and stand by the same advice today. If you want to make healthy eating incredibly simple this year do just one thing Put your efforts into eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables…

• Handpicked links October 2011

  sophie

  25 Oct 2011 | 5:10 am

  We’re all safely settled into our new house now (humans, cats and chickens).  It’s peaceful and light and just old enough to have bit of character while not being overly high maintenance and needy. And in the garden there’s a tree with the most enormous pears on it that I’ve ever seen.  It’s all wonderful except sadly the oven, which makes ridiculously large amounts of noise at the same time as very little heat. Must remedy that soon and get some serious cooking done. Here’s what I’ve been reading and sometimes cooking oven permitting. Roast…

• What to do with a glut of damsons

  sophie

  10 Sep 2011 | 3:04 am

  This year has been a bumper damson crop for everybody according to the lady who rang my jam jars through the till at our local independant department store.  And yet it’s only a certain sort of cookbook that has any damson recipes in it, let alone a choice. I’ve gathered together a list of my favourite damson recipes to help out anybody else blessed with too many damsons.  No worries if you don’t have access to damsons – many of these recipes also work well with if you are afflicted with too many plums. Recipes from Mostly Eating Damson, pear and walnut muffins…

• Damson and Port Jam

  sophie

  4 Sep 2011 | 12:43 pm

  Our damson tree has never been so laden with powdery blue fruits and this year they’ve clumped together like bunches of giant, velvety grapes. Clusters and clusters of them all over the tree. I’m planning to make spiced damson chutney and damson gin but these are barely enough to make dent and so this year there has been jam too – a caramelised boozy jam of damsons and port. Fingers crossed, this is our last year in our current house (probably, you know how these house moves go – nothing is certain until you get the keys). This also means that it is our last year in our…

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• Vitamin D In the Winter

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:40 am

  Vitamin D is a popular vitamin in the world of nutrition right now - it seems there's news about vitamin D research every week. Your body needs vitamin D ...Read Full Post

• Dietary Magnesium and Stroke Risk

  24 Jan 2012 | 9:36 am

  A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition came to the conclusion that dietary magnesium intake is inversely associated with the risk of ischemic stroke (these are the ...Read Full Post

• Nutritionist or Dietitian?

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:32 am

  A reader wants to know if there's a difference between nutritionists and dietitians? Here's my answer: Nutritionist or DietitianHave you been to a dietitian or a nutritionist? Or ...Read Full Post

• Paula Deen's Diabetes

  18 Jan 2012 | 8:28 am

  I don't usually do much celebrity blogging, but the news about Paula Deen's being diagnosed with type II diabetes is interesting. I wish her the best in coping with diabetes ...Read Full Post

• What's Your Favorite Diet, Cooking or Nutrition App?

  11 Jan 2012 | 12:10 am

  Apps, or applications, are little programs on your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or Android phone. There's apps for just about everything thing you can think of doing, including apps ...Read Full Post

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  DietPower Nutrition News, Week of January 23, 2012

• Wine and Chocolate Save Lives

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am

  Flavonoids seem to protect people from heart attack and stroke.

• Capsules May Build Muscles

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am

  Women taking fish oil gain more strength from exercise.

• Worst Time to Drink

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am

  Alcohol is more likely to trigger birth defects during a specific stage of pregnancy.

• Magnesium-Rich Diet Protects Brain

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am

  People who eat lots of leafy green vegetables, nuts, and beans have fewer strokes.

• Blood Pressure Slightly High?

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am

  You're more prone to a heart problem that can lead to stroke.

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  eDiets - Tips, Articles & Videos

• Healthy Dining Restaurant of the Month: Olive Garden

  Shawn

  12 Jan 2012 | 10:33 pm

  You can enjoy a delicious Italian meal without the guilt by ordering these dishes at Olive Garden. You may enjoy these related article:Healthy Dining Restaurant of the Month: Hooters Healthy Dining Restaurant of the Month: Red Lobster Healthy Dining Restaurant of Month: Schlotzsky’s

• Ask Pam: Make Realistic Resolutions

  Geoffrey

  27 Dec 2011 | 10:47 am

  Our nutrition expert explains how to set yourself up for success in 2012. You may enjoy these related article:10 Proven Fitness Resolutions for 2012 10 Best Ways to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions Tips on Keeping This Year’s Resolutions

• eDiets Delivers Better Taste Than Competitors

  Dorian_eDiets

  25 Dec 2011 | 10:31 am

  In a blind taste test of diet delivery meals conducted by Epicurious.com, eDiets was rated better tasting than both Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem.* You may enjoy these related article:Ask Pam: Will eDiets Work for Me? Snack Bar Taste Test eDiets’ Food Delivery Service Voted #1!

• Your Health Checklist for 2012

  Geoffrey

  25 Dec 2011 | 8:03 am

  No matter what your age, make this the year you take control of your health! You may enjoy these related article:10 Proven Fitness Resolutions for 2012 Your Weight-Loss Checklist – #3 Your Weight-Loss Checklist – #4

• Kick-Start Your Diet: 8-Step Plan

  Geoffrey

  24 Dec 2011 | 9:41 am

  If you're just getting started or have hit a plateau, here are eight ways to lose weight! You may enjoy these related article:Weight Loss 101: Kick-Start Your Diet Better Butt Diet: Super 6-Week Plan (Wk. 5-6) Our Diet Plan for Oprah

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• Weight-loss Challenge: It's the home stretch!

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:38 pm

  With a few more days to go and a few more pounds to lose in the challenge, readers share their motivation and what's working for them.

• USDA mandates healthier school lunches

  25 Jan 2012 | 12:33 pm

  Millions of schoolchildren in the United States will see more fruit and vegetables and less fat on their lunch plates under new federal standards.

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• Obesity epidemic shows no hint of retreating

  17 Jan 2012 | 12:10 pm

  America's obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and it shows no sign of reversing course.

• Girls who graze gain less weight

  12 Jan 2012 | 2:59 pm

  Girls who ate frequent meals and snacks put on fewer pounds and gained fewer inches to their waistlines over the next decade than those who only ate a couple of times each day, according to a new study.

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• Fermented soy’s fat busting potential linked to genes

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm

  The ability of a fermented soy product to reduce body fat levels may be linked to a person’s genetics, says a new study from South Korea.

• BASF & Teck join forces on zinc fortification and supplementation solutions

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:55 am

  BASF (Germany) and Teck Resources Limited (Canada) have signed a three year agreement to jointly develop innovative and affordable zinc fortification and supplementation solutions.

• Green tea may reduce functional disability risk: Study

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:55 am

  Consuming at least five cups of green tea per day may reduce the risk of functional disabilities like osteoporosis and stroke, suggests new data from Japan.

• New standard for vitamin D test promises more accurate results

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 am

  Researchers have unveiled the development of new and ‘much-needed’ reference methodolgy that promises to assure more accurate and reliable measurements of vitamin D status.

• FTC settles six more cases in crackdown on bogus acai weight loss claims

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:14 pm

  Six online marketers accused of using ‘fake news’ sites to peddle bogus weight loss claims about acai berry supplements have agreed to settlements with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that will permanently halt their allegedly deceptive practices.

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• WIN! Cardio Coach audio workouts - DG 11th Birthday Sell Out Day 7

  Shauna

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm

  The prize:One lucky winner will receive all eight volumes of Cardio Coach high intensity interval MP3 workout downloads. Ten runners up will each win a copy of Volume 2. Available to readers from: Worldwide What the heck is it?Cardio Coach™ is a downloadable audio high intensity interval workout programme for any MP3 player and you can use it for just about any cardio activity - treadmill, elliptical, stepper, rower, cycling, jogging, walking). Cardio Coach has a patented levels and zone system which means you can make it work for you no matter your fitness level, from beginner to…

• WIN! A month's supply of Total Greek Yoghurt + Zest magazine subscription - DG 11th Birthday Sell Out Day 6

  Shauna

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:48 am

  The prize:One lucky winner will receive a month's supply of Total Greek Yogurt plus a 12-month subscription to Zest magazine, courtesy of the Total Greek Yogurt folks. Available to readers from: UK only. Sorry! What the heck is it?Total Greek Yoghurt is delicious, thick, creamy yoghurt that leaves all other yoghurts whimpering in the aisles, cursing their inferiority. This of course is just my opinion... dinnae sue me, hen. Zest magazine is a leading UK health and fitness magazine. The lucky winner of this prize can linger over their magazine while enjoying the following yoghurt bonanza: - 2…

• WIN! MizFit's My Trainer Fitness workout cards - DG 11th Birthday Sell Out Day 5

  Shauna

  22 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm

  The prize:One lucky winner will receive a set of My Trainer Fitness 100 Calorie Workout cards, featuring the one and only Carla "MizFit" Birnberg. Available to readers from: Worldwide. What the heck is it?My Trainer Fitness 100 Calorie Workouts are a nifty six-pack of cards, each with a workout on it that can be performed in under 20 minutes. Each is designed to facilitate a 100+ calorie burn with each workout, including periods for rest and recovery. Why I dig itThis prize is kind of like the goodness of Carla distilled into a card. Among the many things I've learned from years of…

• WIN! £45 sports bra voucher from Less Bounce - DG 11th Birthday Sell Out Day 4

  Shauna

  19 Jan 2012 | 9:32 am

  The prize:One lucky winner will receive a £45 gift voucher to spend at Less Bounce, including free worldwide shipping. Available to readers from: Worldwide What the heck is it?Less Bounce is an online sportswear retailer. It's where I purchased my first Enell scaffolding in 2004. I rocked up to my next Body Combat class and nearly wept for joy. Jumping kicks are much easier when you're not clutching your chest protectively! Why I dig itAfter those dark years of inadequate support, I'm evangelical about the joys of a good sports bra. I've yelled "GET A SPORTS BRA" at unrestrained chests on…

• WIN! Weight Loss Resources membership - DG 11th Birthday Sell Out Day 3

  Shauna

  18 Jan 2012 | 5:52 am

  The prize: One winner will receive three months membership to Weight Loss Resources. Available to readers from: UK only. What the heck is it?Weight Loss Resources is a set of online weight loss tools. Features include: The biggest UK food database Food diary and analysis tools Calorie requirements calculator Goal setting Monitoring of weight, body fat and BMI Reports and charts on weight and nutrition Add your own recipes and automatically calculate nutritional information Exercise activity database Members forum Mobile-friendly version of the site so you can update on the go Why I dig itYep,…

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  Anti Aging News Updates

• Nutrition Helps to Keep You Youthful

  GiGi

  24 Jan 2012 | 11:08 am

  Remember that as we mature, our ability to appear and feel young involves more than human growth hormone replacement therapy, though that can certainly be an essential key. Exercise, proper sleep, food selections, minerals and vitamins all combine in a synergy to play integral roles in this process. Nutrition Helps to Keep You Youthful is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News

• Magnesium Deficiency and Alzheimer’s – Hopeful News

  GiGi

  17 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Magnesium deficiency has long been associated with Alzheimer's Disease. As far back as 1990 (okay, maybe not THAT long ago), it was discovered that low levels of Magnesium, particularly in that part of the brain associated with short- and long-term memory, appears to be an important factor in Alzheimer's disease. However, what is news now is the testing used to discover magnesium deficiency and also mis-diagnosis of Alzheimer's, when in fact it could be something else. Magnesium Deficiency and Alzheimer’s – Hopeful News is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News

• Telomere Length and Lifespans

  GiGi

  10 Jan 2012 | 10:48 am

  A new study has been released from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (see this article ) that measured the telomere length of zebra finch nestlings during their entire lifespan. You may ask "WHY would we measure a bird's telomere length?"Telomere Length and Lifespans is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News

• FDA and Dietary Supplements – Big Problems Coming?

  GiGi

  1 Dec 2011 | 9:51 am

  I have a feeling many of you have received these letters already about the new FDA rules that are about to be enacted, but if not, I'm reprinting one from the Second Opinion newsletter. I've always tended to take these messages with a grain of salt, but if it's true - scary stuff! Read on...FDA and Dietary Supplements – Big Problems Coming? is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News

• Does Fish Oil Improve Wrinkles?

  GiGi

  22 Nov 2011 | 12:13 pm

  Fish oil has long been regarded as a nutrient providing a multitude of health benefits. But what exactly is fish oil and, if it can affect the heart and circulatory system, what about fish oil for skin and can it improve wrinkles? (Guest post)Does Fish Oil Improve Wrinkles? is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News

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  Health Supreme

• Does smoking tobacco fulfill a nutritional need?

  Josef Hasslberger

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:44 pm

  As counter-intuitive as this question might seem, nicotine is actually a nutrient source. It is one form in which we can obtain a vital nutrient: vitamin B3, also called niacin or nicotinic acid. I have never seen this angle to smoking discussed in a clear form until I came across, through some friends on facebook, a very informative but kind of hidden away write-up by a parent who refused to just accept as fact what "everybody knows" - that kids start to smoke because of tobacco company propaganda. Ironically, the article was languishing in a place called the CyberCemetery, an…

• Supplements: The Real Story - Natural or Synthetic? Foods or Tablets?

  Josef Hasslberger

  18 Jan 2012 | 5:04 pm

  Thanks for this article go to Andrew Saul, editor of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service which you can subscribe to at http://orthomolecular.org/subscribe.html. You can also see other articles at the orthomolecular.org site. (OMNS, Jan 17, 2012) It's a nutritional "Catch 22": The public is told, confusingly: "Vitamins are good, but vitamin supplements are not. Only vitamins from food will help you. So just eat a good diet. Do not take supplements! But by the way, there is no difference between natural and synthetic vitamins." Wait a minute. What's the real story here?

• Despite safety of supplements, FDA insists on regulation - Health Supreme NewsGrabs 15 January 2012

  Josef Hasslberger

  15 Jan 2012 | 12:40 pm

  America's Largest Database Confirms: No Deaths from Vitamins The new 203-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published online here, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin. Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or dietary mineral supplement. Three people died from non-supplement mineral poisoning: two from medical use of sodium and one from non-supplemental iron. On page 131, the AAPCC report specifically…

• Painkillers killing more than pain... Health Supreme NewsGrabs 27 December 2011

  Josef Hasslberger

  27 Dec 2011 | 1:20 pm

  The Champion of Painkillers The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared the overdoses from opioid drugs like OxyContin an "epidemic." And a growing group of experts doubts that they work for long-term pain. But the pills continue to have an influential champion in the American Pain Foundation, which describes itself as the nation's largest advocacy group for pain patients. Its message: The risk of addiction is overblown, and the drugs are underused. What the nonprofit doesn't highlight is the money behind that message. The foundation collected nearly 90 percent of…

• 'Evidence based' medicine is a fraud - Health Supreme NewsGrabs 18 December 2011

  Josef Hasslberger

  18 Dec 2011 | 11:16 am

  Evidence Based Medicine Is a Fraud - Here’s Why Evidence Based Medicine, EBM, is the current calling card of conventional medical treatment. Just the sound of it carries the cachet of high quality medicine. Who wouldn’t want health treatments to be based on evidence? The reality, though, is that EBM is fraudulent. It gives the impression of proof for efficacy of medical treatment, but is largely a smokescreen designed to sell medical products. We should first take a hard look at the reality behind so many of the studies evoked to support EBM treatments. It’s becoming a…

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  Nourishing Thoughts

• Healthy Cereal Giveaway and Tips for Helping Kids Eat More Fiber Rich Food

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:47 am

  This week let's help kids eat more fiber rich foods and choose cereals high in fiber! We have tips for parents, printables to teach kids about fiber and a healthy giveaway - enter to win Bob's Red Mill 8 Grain Cereal. Winner will get 4 packages! (enter...

• Healthy Snacks- Rice Cakes and Toppings- Top Creative Healthy Snack Food Ideas and Tips for Kids and Parents

  20 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  Best rice cake toppings - find healthy rice cake snacks and recipes

• What's New! 1 Small Change Pledge, Healthy Snack Giveaway and NEW Nutrition Printables for Kids

  18 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  What's New at Nourish Interactive - The Fun Way to Learn about Nutrition

• Enter Giveaway for Organic Rice Cakes - Support Healthy Nutrition for Kids and Take our Healthy Snack Food Pledge

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:47 am

  Healthy Snack Tips| Enter Pledge and Giveaway |Extra Ways to Win |Healthy Snack Printables for Kids Join us in helping kids to eat healthier snacks! This week we share new healthy snack pledge and some of our best healthy snack food tips. You'll fi...

• Healthy Snacks for Kids- Helping kids choose healthier snack foods tips and easy recipes

  11 Jan 2012 | 9:13 am

  Healthy Snacks for Kids- It's possible and easy to help kids choose healthier snack foods- why healthy snacks are an important part of children's daily balanced diets with tips and ideas for parents, easy recipes for kids and a healthy giveaway each week.

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  Integrative Nutrition Blog

• Healthy Living Guide: Portland (Oregon!)

  Lauren Caster

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:49 am

  Continuing down the Pacific Coast, our next stop is Portland, Oregon! I’m lucky enough to call Portland home and couldn’t be more excited to share some of my favorite healthy hangouts with all of you! Recently, Portland has come to be known as quite the food town, and a healthy food town at that. It is truly a locavore’s paradise (see video at the end of this post!), with almost all of the popular and trendy restaurants serving only local, organic dishes.  In addition to the booming restaurant scene, Portlanders have taken their food obsession to the streets in the form…

• Tips for Eating Healthily While Eating Out

  Bridget Shannon

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:54 pm

  Healthy diners, rejoice! A recent study released in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviorproves that with a little education and a mindful approach, it is possible to maintain and even lose weight while eating out. 35 healthy women who ate out often were assigned to one of two groups: one that offered weekly sessions on education and mindful eating meditations, or one without any counseling. The first group learned about portion sizes, strategies to prevent weight gain in various types of restaurants, setting personal goals, and meditating to increase awareness of feeling hungry or…

• Is Internet Addiction Damaging Our Brains?

  Ansley Fones

  24 Jan 2012 | 11:12 am

  Lost a few hours this weekend on Pinterest? You might jokingly call the site "addictive," but new studies suggest that you could be more right than you know. The condition is called "Internet addiction disorder" (IAD), and we'll probably be hearing a lot more about it in the coming years. Even Deepak Chopra has weighed in on this 21st century problem. While some doubt the existence of the disorder, research published in the science journal, PLoS ONE, suggests that obsessive Internet use can actually damage the brain, similar to alcohol or drug dependency.  Brain scans of…

• Juicing vs. Blending: Which is right for you?

  Lauren Caster

  23 Jan 2012 | 3:08 pm

  Recipes for green juices and smoothies are popping up all over the place and these beverages are slowly becoming a more mainstream approach to healthy eating and detoxing. One thing is for sure – green juices and smoothies are good for you. But is one better than the other? Here is a short comparison to help you learn the ins-and-outs of green beverages. Hopefully this will help you pick which is right for you! Green Juice What you need: Juicer, 1 to 2 pounds of your favorite green vegetables Advantages: Juicing is great because it extracts all of the water and nutrients from…

• How to Spice Up Your Next Eggplant Dish

  Lauren Caster

  22 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Eggplant is one of my favorite vegetables. I love everything about it – from its beautiful purple color to the way it so kindly absorbs the favor of whatever I decide to pair it with. Usually that’s tomato sauce and cheese. Since the classic dish eggplant parmesan isn’t exactly healthy, I’m always on the lookout for new ways to cook this pretty vegetable. When I found this recipe on 2008 IIN grad Amie Valpone’s blog The Healthy Apple, I was elated! Not only does she use eggplant, but she also incorporates some of my favorite flavors – paprika and balsamic…

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  Nutrition Business Journal

• NFM Secret Shopper: I've heard taking multivitamins can be dangerous for women. Should I stop taking them?

  chandlershortlidge

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:06 pm

  Natural Foods Merchandiser contacted a natural foods chain in the West to see how they would respond to a question about recent findings on the dangers of multivitamins for women. read more

• Are supplements good or bad for you? Researcher concludes more studies needed

  chandlershortlidge

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:49 pm

  In the wake of controversial findings such as those of the October 2011 Archives of Internal Medicine supplement study, one of that study's authors concludes that more studies are needed to accurately assess supplements. read more

• Iowa women's health study findings on supplements insufficient, says researcher

  chandlershortlidge

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm

  A controversial Archives of Internal Medicine study concluded many supplements don’t extend life and some may actually boost mortality risk. One researcher points out the study's flaws. read more

• From Sunflower to Walmart: 4 retailers' tips for surviving - and thriving - in a tough economy

  chandlershortlidge

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm

  How retailers can survive - and thrive in some cases - when food costs go up and incomes go down. read more

• 9 ways to expand your business without a bank loan

  chandlershortlidge

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm

  Experts say that, with a little ingenuity, you can increase your inventory and, by turn, your bottom line—all without a bank’s help. Here's how. read more

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  Advocare Tips

• Quick Easy Advocare Protein Sources

  AdvoGirl

  22 Jan 2012 | 5:35 pm

  Drypacks are a great resource for your Advocare Eating Plan. Related posts: Eating Out On Advocare 24 Day – Tip 1 In a Pickle Advocare: After the 24 days

• Last Day of Advocare 24 Day Challenge Sale

  AdvoGirl

  17 Jan 2012 | 10:29 am

  Last day to save on a great investment in your health. Related posts: Advocare 24 Day Program Sale! Advocare 20% Discount Essentially Free Updated Advocare 24 Day Shopping Guide

• Advocare 20% Discount Essentially Free

  AdvoGirl

  9 Jan 2012 | 6:22 pm

  Get your Advocare membership with 20% discount, essentially for free. Related posts: Get All This Free! 24 Day Challenge Introduction Start the New Year Right!

• Updated Advocare 24 Day Shopping Guide

  AdvoGirl

  8 Jan 2012 | 8:57 pm

  Use the shopping guide, Great Foods, to help you plan your meals and snacks. Related posts: Updated Grocery Guide Grocery Shopping Guide 24 Day Challenge Introduction

• Start the New Year Right!

  AdvoGirl

  31 Dec 2011 | 8:35 am

  The 24 Day Challenge is discounted starting tomorrow through January 17th. Save big and lose weight! Related posts: 24 Day Challenge Introduction Advocare 24 Day Program Sale! Spark!

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  Pinch My Salt

• Baking from Tartine Bread

  Nicole

  5 Jan 2012 | 6:27 pm

  One of the best gifts I received this year was the gift of bread.  No, I wasn’t given a loaf of bread, but I was given a tool that allowed me to bake the best bread of my life. (...)Continue reading Baking from Tartine Bread © Pinch My Salt, 2012. | Permalink: http://pinchmysalt.com/2012/01/05/baking-from-tartine-bread/ | Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

• Favorite Recipes of 2011

  Nicole

  31 Dec 2011 | 1:10 pm

  Smoky Spiced Black-Eyed Peas with Bacon (...)Continue reading Favorite Recipes of 2011 © Pinch My Salt, 2011. | Permalink: http://pinchmysalt.com/2011/12/31/favorite-recipes-of-2011/ | Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

• Pumpkin-Maple Sourdough Cake

  Nicole

  9 Nov 2011 | 2:25 pm

  Welcome back to Doughvember! This week, Linda and I are giving away sourdough-related prizes, so keep reading if you’re interested in today’s giveaway.  Have you had any sourdough adventures yet this month?  I’m saving my bread baking for the second half of the month, but this week I decided to experiment with using sourdough starter to replace part of the flour and water in a simple pumpkin cake.(...)Continue reading Pumpkin-Maple Sourdough Cake © Pinch My Salt, 2011. | Permalink: http://pinchmysalt.com/2011/11/09/pumpkin-maple-sourdough-cake/ | Feed enhanced by Better…

• Welcome to Doughvember

  Nicole

  1 Nov 2011 | 8:34 pm

  Remember how I invited you on that sourdough journey in September?  You were so patient with my daily updates as I created a new sourdough starter and demonstrated how to make a loaf of sourdough bread from scratch.  Well, here we go again.(...)Continue reading Welcome to Doughvember © Pinch My Salt, 2011. | Permalink: http://pinchmysalt.com/2011/11/01/welcome-to-doughvember/ | Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

• Butternut Squash Pudding for October Unprocessed

  Nicole

  29 Oct 2011 | 4:44 pm

  Today my guest post on Maple Butternut Pudding is being featured at Eating Rules as part of the October Unprocessed Challenge.  I revamped one of my favorite Fall desserts, Butternut Squash Pudding, to make it suitable for the challenge.  Head over to Eating Rules to see how it turned out. © Pinch My Salt, 2011. | Permalink: http://pinchmysalt.com/2011/10/29/butternut-squash-pudding-for-october-unprocessed/ | Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

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  Dietriffic.com

• Mini Meals: Would This Style Of Eating Work For You?

  Melanie

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:30 am

  Eating smaller, “mini-meals,” throughout the day can help to keep blood glucose levels steady, and is even said to boost metabolism. That means, this style of eating may actually be a really great way to help you maintain or lose weight. The basic idea is that each meal contains around 300 calories, and you eat about six meals each day. Personally, I’m not into counting calories at all, but I suppose I do fall into this style of eating on a normal day. I prefer to eat small, snack-sized meals most of the day, except for my main meal at night. My Eating Plan chericem When…

• And, The Winner Is…

  Melanie

  24 Jan 2012 | 5:51 am

  Mi-Bra Thank you all so much for your entries to win one of Carolina’s Mi-Bra‘s. It was great to hear from all of you, and there were a number of really excellent tips shared on ways to maintain an active lifestyle — I’m thinking of making these into an article later in the week So, without further ado, the winner is… Karolyne — I’ll be in touch with you soon to make arrangements for posting your prize. To everyone else, a huge thank you for entering. Don’t forget to check out Carolina’s Facebook page, if you haven’t done so already. Stay…

• 4 Ways To Start Moving Right Now {Plus Competition!}

  Carolina

  19 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am

  Mi-Bra Back in July 2010 I ran a competition to give away a fab Mi-Bra, thanks to Carolina from Girl Habits. Carolina has kindly offered to partner with me once again, to give you the chance to win another Mi-Bra, absolutely free. If you don’t know already, the Mi-Bra is a super comfortable, 90% organic cotton, eco-friendly sports bra, with a fab little pocket on the front.  You’ll find details at the end of this post on how to win your very own Mi-Bra. But first, here is Carolina’s article ~ Melanie It’s about that time of year when your exercise resolutions start to…

• Is Peppa Pig A Bad Influence On Your Kids?

  Melanie

  17 Jan 2012 | 9:29 am

  My little girl recently started watching Peppa Pig. In fact, it was fast becoming a bit of a hit in our home. That was until I came across an interesting article, which stopped me in my tracks. It seems some parents have noticed their children copying the ‘naughty’ behavior of Peppa, and her younger brother, George, by answering back. Now, I’ll be the first to admit children do not need to be shown how to misbehave. However, I do think we need to be careful what we allow our children to watch on TV and DVD’s. annalog85 The quiet time we enjoy when they are nicely plonked in…

• 5 Ways To Eat Better At Work

  Melanie

  10 Jan 2012 | 9:40 am

  It’s so easy to rush from home each morning on your way to work, without thinking about breakfast, never mind what you’ll eat throughout the rest of the day. Before you know it, though, you’re onto your third cup of coffee, and feeling as flat as can be. How can you possibly make it through the rest of the day feeling like that? Maybe you grab something quickly at lunch, without giving it much thought. Then, your afternoon is filled by endless snacking to make up the calorie gap, and boost your energy levels. That’s certainly not a nice place to be in. However,…

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  Eat This!

• 20 Interesting Facts About Pears

  hdiaries

  27 Jan 2012 | 10:46 pm

  Pears are one of the world's favorite fruits and have been so for thousands of years. Here are 20 interesting facts about pears that you may not have known. There are over 3000 varieties of pears grown around the world....

• 12 Quotes About Pears

  hdiaries

  27 Jan 2012 | 4:52 pm

  Here are 12 quotes about pears from Shakespeare to Mao Tse-Tung.

• How to Ripen Pears

  hdiaries

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:56 pm

  Have some underripe pears you want to use? Here's how to ripen pears with a few tried and true techniques.

• How to Tell if a Pear is Ripe

  hdiaries

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:23 pm

  Here's how to tell if a pear is ripe and ready to be eaten.

• 8 Health Benefits of Pears

  hdiaries

  27 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm

  Here are eight health benefits of pears that may make you want to include them in your diet on a regular basis.

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  Nourish Me

• hot days

  Lucy

  24 Jan 2012 | 4:28 pm

  Just perfect for sunflowers and corn, standing tall, next to one another on these hot days.  SUPER-excited about the corn as well you might imagine, but it's the sunflowers that have stolen the show.    Just look at that lazy snoozer, in between the rows. Jo called her a (scruffy) child of the corn. Should be ready for the pot or grill this long, hot weekend.   (the corn, not the dog)

• brick oven: part 4

  Lucy

  18 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm

  Back in June of 2011, it stopped raining just long enough one weekend for me to a) take a photo (one which, I think, shows how Dalek-like Peter's design turned out to be) and b) to get things fired up in there. You know, to actually use the thing. Once again, Russell Jeavons displays a somewhat laid back approach to explaining how to fire up the beast, but we knew to expect that now, knew that it's all about learning how to use your particular oven, and, as such, there's no precise map to follow. So. Make a HUGE fire, get it burning fiercely and tend it for a good 2…

• tomatoes

  Lucy

  17 Jan 2012 | 4:19 pm

  We ordered a lot of ready-grown tomato seedlings from Diggers last year, spent what felt like a fortune because I'd missed the rather critical timings starting from seed requires. Seemed like the sensible thing to do. Thing is, and this is not the fault of the lovely people at Diggers, that Australia Post,"don't deliver parcels of that size" to country addresses. Interesting, right? More interesting is that also don't deliver the notices that tell you that said large parcel is awaiting collection. Hmm. I got them just in time, unpacked them, gave them light and water…

• back

  Lucy

  10 Jan 2012 | 6:13 pm

  Back, in a sense, although not quite back in another (the sense in which one can string together coherent thoughts in an easy fashion, obviously). Yesterday morning was a balmy 12 degrees when the dog and I woke, so we broke our break, and headed back to the city for a few days. Who wants to build a fire in (almost) mid-January? Not me, least not on my lonesome. I may be good at being alone - I excel at it in fact - but sometimes it's nice to have company other than the scruffy canine kind.   Actually, the impending summer cold (hail is battering the windows as I type - oh,…

• last minute

  Lucy

  14 Dec 2011 | 4:57 pm

  Yesterday afternoon, soaking up the sun while shelling broad beans slowly on the back step, a familiar tune wafted into the space, made me stop and listen. I knew the words instinctively - Christmas carols were ingrained in my childhood - and I found the simple joy of voices singing Peace on earth and mercy mi-ld in real time somewhat humbling. A short burst, just a couple of refrains and off they went, but it was sweet and delicious to my ears, a great surprise. It made me think of how we should feel at this time of the year, that even an unbeliever like me needs to take stock, to be glad of…

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  Limes & Lycopene

• Quicklinks

  20 Jan 2012 | 5:44 pm

  There haven’t been any Friday Quicklinks for ages, but I’ve spotted some good stuff on the ’net this week, so here goes: The Great Muffin Makeover: Harvard School of Public Health have a great piece on making better-for-you muffins, as well as recipes and a comparison of their muffins vs coffee shop ones. Chilli Kaffir Tamarind Tofu: Via @Ganga108 comes this delicious looking recipe for stir fried tofu marinated in chilli, kaffir limes and tamarind. I think it looks a-mazing. Breakfast: Via @shauna, @Elle_Ann and @sophiemostly I came across these two pieces on breakfast. One…

• Win a copy of Cooking for One AND 2012 cooking class schedule

  18 Jan 2012 | 2:10 am

  Couple of notices today. Firstly, The Amazing Adventure of Dietgirl is 11 this week. Eleven whole years old, which is quite remarkable. To celebrate, the lovely Shauna is having a series of giveaway competitions, including some copies of our eMagazine An Honest Kitchen – Cooking for One. To win you just have to leave a comment on this blog post. And then cross your fingers. Secondly, I’ve just put together my 2012 clinic cooking class schedule. Classes take place on Saturday afternoons, cost $25 and cover topics as varied as vegetarian cooking, one pot meals, how to get your five…

• Vege boxes deliver good eating to your door

  13 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pm

  Today I have another guest post from Cindy, one half of Where’s the Beef?. This is part of an occasional series on Limes and Lycopene, around the theme of what makes it easier to eat well?. Cindy and Michael blog about vegetarian eating in Melbourne and their soy bomb recipe is wondrous. Anyway, over to Cindy. While I’ve been writing a food blog for over five years now and loving my veges for many years more, I think one of the best shifts in my diet has occurred only recently. This has come from ordering a set vege box delivery to my home. Here are some reasons why: Convenience. When…

• Making new year resolutions - thoughts, ideas and my process

  3 Jan 2012 | 4:16 pm

  I’ve been thinking a lot about new year resolutions recently – after all it’s that time of year. While I’ve noticed more and more articles and people poo-pooing the idea of new year resolutions, I actually like them. While I realise many people break their resolutions quickly and most don’t last beyond January, I think that’s a problem with how we make new year resolutions, rather than with the concept itself. Most resolutions have a big picture focus and are underminingly vague. If people make resolutions like “lose weight”, “get fit”, “quit…

• Merry Christmas

  22 Dec 2011 | 4:03 pm

  My last day at work today and then I’m taking a three week break. And I’ll also be taking a break from blogging. I have a huge pile of books I’ve collected from friends and the library, which I’m thoroughly looking forward to wading through. I’ll be spending time with my family, catching up with friends and hopefully enjoying some sunshine here in Sydney. I hope you have a wonderful and relaxing festive season and best wishes for lots of good things in 2012. Thank you for being such great readers. Your loyalty, good humour, comments, feedback, emails and…

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  LuckyVitamin.com

• Lucky Vitamin Presents: Body Basix

  Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am

  Lucky Vitamin is happy to present Body Basix supplements to our customers. Body Basix provides products to help you reach your health, wellness and fitness goals. The company offers sports nutrition supplements for everybody, and wants to make performance nutrition easy to understand and easy to use for everyday athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Body Basix features a simple icon system which immediately communicates the benefits of each respective product, thereby removing confusion. There are six core components of nutrition: protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, minerals and water. These…

• Be Ready for Cold Weather

  Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm

  January and February bring us the coldest days of the year and, despite knowing that, for some reason we always wait until the last moment to get ready for the winter months. Winter can be fun as long as you are prepared for. You can have a great time during snow storms whether you are outdoors or inside, and as long as you don’t have to be rushing to places to get the items you need. So, if you live in areas where snow and ice are common, get ready and enjoy a hassle-free winter. Make sure you have shovels, ice scrapers, and ice melting products. Sprinkle sidewalks and driveways with salt…

• Lucky Vitamin Presents: Joyva

  Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Lucky Vitamin continues to add new brands to our site, providing much more than just vitamins and supplements. The latest addition brings a premium selection of chocolate treats to our customers: Joyva. Joyva offers top quality chocolate products and can be your source for delicious treats that will thrill the entire family. Joyva products are gluten-free, and also certified by Kof-K Kosher supervision as kosher parve. This means the Joyva manufacturing facility is spotlessly clean, the ingredients of all products are of the highest quality, and anyone keeping kosher can eat Joyva products.

• Lucky Vitamin Presents: Piggy Paint

  Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm

  Lucky Vitamin is proud to introduce an all natural line of nail polish products to our customers: Piggy Paint. Piggy Paint is a natural, eco-friendly nail polish designed for fancy girls. Its non-toxic, hypoallergenic formula makes it safe to use on all piggies. Piggy Paint is specially formulated from natural ingredients and dries to a hard, durable finish. There are no toxic chemicals and all products are free of formaldehyde, toluene, phthalates, Bisphenol-A, ethyl acetate and acetone. Piggy Paint polish products are kid-friendly without the accompanying drawbacks of traditional polishes.

• Lucky Vitamin Presents: Pukka Herbs

  Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

  24 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm

  Lucky Vitamin is presenting Pukka Herbs products to our customers. Pukka offers a unique selection of teas from the spring of morning time to the calm of night time. Translated from Hindi to mean ‘authentic’, ‘genuine’ or, more colloquially, ‘top-quality’, Pukka started with little finance, but plenty of passion and was created based in the beliefs of Ayurveda, the ancient Indian art of living wisely,  and the incredible health benefits of organic herbs. Today, Pukka has grown but continues to use only herbs from organic and sustainable sources, enjoying long-term and fair-trade…

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  ScienceDaily: Vitamin News

• Research on vitamins could lead to the design of novel drugs to combat malaria

  27 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm

  New research could lead to the design of more effective drugs to combat malaria. The research will enable scientists to learn more about the nature of the enzymes required for vitamin biosynthesis by the malaria causing pathogen Plasmodium. Vitamins are essential nutrients required in small amounts, the lack of which leads to deficiencies. Many pathogenic microorganisms produce vitamins, and these biosynthetic pathways may provide suitable targets for development of new drugs.

• New standard for vitamin D testing to ensure accurate test results

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:19 am

  At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate.

• Genetic variation increases risk of metabolic side effects in children on some antipsychotics

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pm

  Researchers have found a genetic variation predisposing children to six-times greater risk of developing metabolic syndrome when taking second-generation anti-psychotic medications. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that are risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The study showed a close association with two conditions in particular: high blood pressure and elevated fasting blood sugar levels, which is a precursor to diabetes.

• Contact lenses provide extended pain relief to laser eye surgery patients

  18 Jan 2012 | 10:20 am

  Scientists are reporting development of contact lenses that could provide a continuous supply of anesthetic medication to the eyes of patients who undergo laser eye surgery -- an advance that could relieve patients of the burden of repeatedly placing drops of medicine into their eyes every few hours for several days.

• 70 percent of Europeans suffer from low vitamin D levels, experts say

  10 Jan 2012 | 9:20 am

  A group of experts has prepared a report on vitamin D supplementation for menopausal women after it was revealed that Europeans have suffered an alarming decrease in their levels of this vitamin. In their opinion, the ideal would be to maintain blood levels above 30 ng/ml. Vitamin D is essential to the immune system and processes such as calcium absorption.

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  ScienceDaily: Dietary Supplements

• Grape seed extract kills head and neck cancer cells, leaves healthy cells unharmed

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:09 pm

  In both cell lines and mouse models, grape seed extract kills head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells, while leaving healthy cells unharmed, new research shows.

• Research on vitamins could lead to the design of novel drugs to combat malaria

  27 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm

  New research could lead to the design of more effective drugs to combat malaria. The research will enable scientists to learn more about the nature of the enzymes required for vitamin biosynthesis by the malaria causing pathogen Plasmodium. Vitamins are essential nutrients required in small amounts, the lack of which leads to deficiencies. Many pathogenic microorganisms produce vitamins, and these biosynthetic pathways may provide suitable targets for development of new drugs.

• Scientists map one of life's molecular mysteries: Visualisation of the molecular gateway across and into cellular membranes

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:37 am

  All living organisms are made up of cells, behind these intricate life forms lie complex cellular processes that allow our bodies to function. Researchers working on protein secretion -- a fundamental process in biology -- have revealed how protein channels in the membrane are activated by special signals contained in proteins destined for secretion. The results help explain the underlying mechanism responsible for the release of proteins such as hormones and antibodies into the blood stream.

• Limiting protein or certain amino acids before surgery may reduce risk of surgical complications

  25 Jan 2012 | 1:31 pm

  Limiting certain essential nutrients for several days before surgery -- either protein or amino acids -- may reduce the risk of serious surgical complications such as heart attack or stroke, according to a new study.

• New standard for vitamin D testing to ensure accurate test results

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:19 am

  At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate.

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  The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.

• Statins and diabetes

  mreades

  16 Jan 2012 | 9:25 pm

  In the Jan 9, 2012 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine in the Online First section an article appeared showing that women studied as part of the Women’s Health Initiative who were on statin drugs during the study developed diabetes at greater rates than those who were not on these drugs.  According to the statistical analysis of the authors, being on a statin increased the relative risk of developing diabetes by 48 percent! These were observational studies and, as such, can’t be used to determine causality.  But they are interesting nonetheless because according to one of the…

• The best low-carb book in print

  mreades

  11 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm

  I’m going to tell you about the best low-carb book I’ve ever read. In fact, it’s exactly the book I wish I had written myself.  And I’ll tell you why I didn’t in a bit, but first I want to clear up a few misconceptions I may have spread in my last post. I get feedback on the posts I write from three sources.  First, MD looks at them and tones them down if I’ve gone off on some sort of political tangent or if I’ve scattered in a bit of too colorful language.  After she gives me the go, I put the posts up and wait to see what the commenters have to say.  The third source for…

• Resolving to diet in 2012

  mreades

  8 Jan 2012 | 7:26 pm

  The first week of January is the traditional time for overweight people to start a diet.  For years I’ve told my patients (and anyone else who would listen) to fight the holiday eat-a-thon and start the new year at the same weight they started the month of November.  During the time between Thanksgiving and the end of the year, so the media typically reports, the average weight gain is anywhere from five to ten pounds per person.  A study in Nutrition Reviews showed the weight gain to be much less on average but a little over five pounds in those who are already obese.  This same study…

• Happy New Year 2012

  mreades

  2 Jan 2012 | 12:24 am

  I would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year.  I hope 2012 brings good things to us all. I also want to use this post to do a little housekeeping and let everyone know I’m going to try my hardest to post more frequently in 2012 (one of my resolutions, in fact).  But given my horrendous schedule lately (which shows no signs of letting up anytime soon), the only way I can post more regularly is to devote way less time to dealing with comments. When I first started this blog six or seven years ago (June 2005, I think), I had almost no comments.  Before I kicked it off, I…

• Merry Christmas 2011

  mreades

  24 Dec 2011 | 11:08 pm

  The Santa Barbara Choral Society performs Handel’s Messiah Composed for a fundraiser for a Dublin prison, Handel’s Messiah has become a perennial Christmas favorite everywhere. The entire performance is in three parts and takes over two hours for the entire performance.  MD’s choral group, the Santa Barbara Choral Society, typically performs all of Part I, and selections from Parts II and III.  I’m crazy about the whole thing, but the selection that people are most familiar with is the Hallelujah Chorus from Part II. Here is the Santa Barbara Choral Society…

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• 3-in-1 Total Body Fitness

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  26 Jan 2012 | 11:56 pm

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• The Easy Weight Loss Guide To Lose Weight Fast: How to Lose 10 Pounds in 2 Weeks – Lose 20 Pounds In A Month – Lose 5 Pounds A Week Without Feeling Hungry

  admin

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:46 pm

  The Easy Weight Loss Guide To Lose Weight Fast: How to Lose 10 Pounds in 2 Weeks – Lose 20 Pounds In A Month – Lose 5 Pounds A Week Without Feeling Hungry If you are overweight, you are not alone. In fact, one third of all Americans were classified as being obese according to a recent study. Obesity is defined as being more than 20% (20% for men and 25% for women) above your ideal weight as determined by standard weight charts. If you want to lose weight, The Easy Weight Loss Guide To Lose Weight Fast is the ideal guide to help you do it quickly and easily. Comprised of 10 simple…

• From Belly Fat to Belly Flat: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waist and Subtracting Years from Your Life — the Medically Proven Way to Reset Your Metabolism and Reshape Your Body

  admin

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:55 am

  From Belly Fat to Belly Flat: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waist and Subtracting Years from Your Life — the Medically Proven Way to Reset Your Metabolism and Reshape Your Body Discover the hidden culprit behind the ‘middle-age spread’–and the simple plan that’s helped hundreds of women over 30 break the fat cycle! It’s an all-too-common problem once you hit thirty: Despite your best efforts, you just can’t seem to lose the extra weight around your middle, and you look in the mirror wondering what month and year you lost your waistline.

• FREESTYLING ON THE DIP BAR

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  25 Jan 2012 | 10:44 pm

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• Jillian Michaels: 6 Week Six-Pack

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  25 Jan 2012 | 7:43 am

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  Healthy Food & Healthy Living

• Study shows liquid calories trick body and mind to overeat

  Dr. Ayala

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:57 am

  A calorie’s a calorie, isn't it?  Well, accumulating evidence shows that our body has a hard time registering calories from beverages in the tally towards satiety; unfortunately, these beverage's calories still count in our energy balance.  That’s why the extra calories in beverages are just extra—much like items that didn’t go into the budget, but will nevertheless have to be paid for. There are numerous studies to prove this point; here are just a few: Nutritionist Barbara Rolls from Penn State served women water, diet soda, regular soda, orange juice, milk or no drink before…

• Study suggests kids prefer more color and variety in their plate

  Dr. Ayala

  18 Jan 2012 | 6:55 am

  Brian Wansink is famous for his work on the psychology of eating and for popularizing terms such as "mindless eating" and "health halos." His research has unveiled some of the many occasions in which environmental cues such as packaging, label claims and plate size influence our eating. There’s something particularly encouraging about Wansink’s findings. If so much of our eating, overeating and unhealthy eating is driven by nothing more than unconscious, mindless habits, a targeted environmental change can improve our eating without much sacrifice, indeed, almost without individuals…

• Does soda add belly fat?

  Dr. Ayala

  11 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am

  Do sweet drinks cause belly fat? Fat around abdominal organs is much more active metabolically than the fat under our skin, and poses additional risk for diabetes, heart disease and stroke above and beyond the risk seen with being overweight. And while fat distribution is influenced by age and genetics a growing body of evidence suggests dietary choices, and especially sugary drinks increase fat accumulation in the worst possible locations of our anatomy. A study from the University of California at Davis showed that drinking 25 percent of daily calories (which is quite a lot) in fructose for…

• Should we reward kids for eating their veggies?

  Dr. Ayala

  4 Jan 2012 | 6:27 am

  Many parents struggle with getting their kids to eat veggies.  A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition tests a new tactic to getting those veggies in and shows that rewarding kids for tasting a disliked veggie increased both its intake and liking. I was surprised when I read the title of the study – prizes for healthy eating run contrary to the advice generally dispensed to concerned parents – so let’s read through the study and see what we can learn from it. Rewards and praise for trying veggies The study, led by Anna Remington, was conducted in North London, UK, and…

• Are junk-eating friends ruining your diet?

  Dr. Ayala

  28 Dec 2011 | 6:22 am

  I'll be taking a a few weeks off to spend time with my family and travel, and will write infrequenly during this time. Meantime, I'll be reposting some of the more popular posts I’ve written over the past years so that new readers have a chance to catch up.  Happy holidays! Peer pressure is a pretty powerful force that can both help and impede kids’ choices. No kid is totally immune to peer pressure and that’s why I care a lot about who my kids hang out with—I’m sure most parents do. Peer behavior influences a wide range of health related behaviors--from smoking to alcohol intake…

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  Food Renegade

• Fight Back Friday January 27th

  KristenM

  27 Jan 2012 | 12:45 am

  Welcome to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution. Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food,... [[This is a summary only. Keep reading by clicking on the Title above.]]

• Reversing MS Through Dietary Changes

  KristenM

  23 Jan 2012 | 1:59 pm

  When Dr. Terry Wahl was diagnosed with MS, she did what any good doctor would do. She started the standard course of treatments recommended for MS by her peers. After 7 years of the best medicine had to offer for MS, she was for all intents and purposes a cripple. She couldn't sit in a normal chair, but rather had to recline in a zero gravity chair at home and at work. She could walk only very short distances -- and that using two canes! Then one day she decided to put her research acumen to the test. [[This is a summary only. Keep reading by clicking on the Title above.]]

• CDC Advises Delayed Breastfeeding To Boost Vaccine Efficacy

  KristenM

  23 Jan 2012 | 10:38 am

  Ten researchers from the CDC's National Centers for Immunization and Respiratory Disease (NCIRD) released a paper arguing that because the immune-boosting effects of breastmilk inhibit the effects of the live oral rotavirus vaccine, nursing mothers should delay breastfeeding their infants. [[This is a summary only. Keep reading by clicking on the Title above.]]

• Fight Back Friday January 20th

  KristenM

  19 Jan 2012 | 10:37 pm

  Welcome to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution. Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food,... [[This is a summary only. Keep reading by clicking on the Title above.]]

• Fight Back Friday January 13th

  KristenM

  13 Jan 2012 | 9:53 am

  Welcome to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution. Who are they? Why, they're the Food Renegades. You know who you are -- lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food, the list goes on. I believe that by joining together, our influence can grow, and we can change the way America (and the industrialized world) eats! So, let's have some fun. [[This is a summary only. Keep reading by clicking on the Title above.]]

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  A Weight Lifted

• Fitness Friday Video: How Do I Stretch This Muscle?

  Lisa

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:41 am

  Why is it that I can barely remember how to stretch my muscles when I’m doing strength training on my own? I would bet that I’m not alone here; stretching seems to be something we want to hurry through or just skip all together if no one is watching. And it’s not just that we don’t want to take the time, it’s hard to remember if we’re even doing the right stretches. In today’s Fitness Friday video, LynnAnn demonstrates a very easy way to remember how to stretch each muscle group. When we’re doing an exercise using flexion, which pulls a joint…

• Food Insecurity and Diets

  Robyn

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:02 am

  After the little town our healthy weight loss spa resides in was hit hard by the flood waters of Irene, we lost our one and only grocery store.  As a result, our town grocery store has been operating out of a tent for the last four months.  As of today it will close completely for 10 days in order to move back into a building.  Now, I do have a car and I can drive to a neighboring town to shop, but I still had a twinge of food insecurity pop up regarding this. This got me thinking about the food insecurity that dieters experience.  Although most of us don’t need to worry…

• Where the Magic Happens

  Marsha

  24 Jan 2012 | 9:03 am

  Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Eleanor Roosevelt Thanks to Quan Yin on Facebook for this. Posts That May Be RelatedFitness Friday: Standing AbdominalsMix it Up – Variety with ExerciseHealthy Cooking Thursday – An Idea for Lousy FruitHealthy Cooking Thursday – Sensory Deprivation for Mindfulness

• Binge Eating to Numb Out

  darla

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:36 am

  Binge eating is a frequently discussed  topic with Green Mountain alums. One woman was telling me about her desire to just numb out at the end of the day.  She was looking to the binge to help her cope with feelings, but she didn’t have a clue about what the feelings were. I call the  process  of looking for the feelings “exploring the storm of the underneath” and often times the only way to discover the underneath is by guessing.  She guessed anger, which is a common underneath feeling for women who use food to cope. I was reading a blog by Leora Fulvio in which she…

• Fitness Friday: Behold the Plank

  Lisa

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am

  Before the current “planking craze,” which consists of lying face down in strange and unlikely places and having someone take your picture, another form of planking for exercise existed: the abdominal plank. Though it may seem intimidating, the abdominal plank is a great move for your back and your abs, even if you are new to exercise, because it can be modified to fit your current fitness level. Also, when you want to shake up your current strength training routine, which is recommended to avoid plateauing and growing bored, you can try a plank instead of your typical ab…

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  Natural Health Restored

• January Tooth Soap Sale Alert!!!

  18 Jan 2012 | 4:43 pm

  Just heard about this sale on Tooth Soap that's going on for the month of January. Shop now at Toothsoap.com and get one of your favorite types of Tooth Soap in any flavor absolutely FREE when you purchase another Tooth Soap! Choose from Tooth Soap Whip, Gel, Liquid, Shreds, or Liqui-Gel in ANY FLAVOR you like! How's that for a deal? Please read the following instructions before ordering for the easiest shopping experience! Use coupon code: JAN Once you've typed in the coupon code, click "APPLY" so that the discount will be taken before you check out! This is super important! Click here to…

• Healing Cancer World Summit - Starts Tonight!!!

  21 Oct 2011 | 6:06 am

  There's only a few hours left until the start of the Healing Cancer World Summit. It starts tonight at 8 PM EST. Don't miss it! The summit is a FREE online event where you'll get some amazing, life changing, eye-opening information about cancer prevention from experienced experts in the field. This is something you don't want to miss. Here's where you can learn more and sign up for this informative event: http://www.renegadehealth.com/cancer/ If you have other commitments and can't make the meetings, not a problem! The archives be available online for a limited time after the initial…

• Grandma's Molasses

  20 Oct 2011 | 7:51 am

  I just purchased Grandma's Molasses a few days ago and me and my boyfriend have been taking 2 TBS a day. We are wondering if this still have the same benefits

• More Energy With Blackstrap Molasses, But Itchy?

  7 Oct 2011 | 9:31 am

  I love blackstrap molasses! I add a tablespoon to my raw milk, add a few teaspoons with Bragg cider vinegar to 8 oz. of water before I work out (I play

• Listen in to these 9+ Natural Cancer Experts (Free Event)

  7 Oct 2011 | 7:27 am

  The Healing Cancer World Summit is coming on October 25th! It's a FREE online event where you can listen in as natural health author Kevin Gianni interviews a number of cancer doctors and researchers who've had success reversing cancer using natural means. Both of Kevin's parents been affected by cancer twice. His father died and his mother went through chemotherapy and surgery for breast cancer. You can see his story here in this video... Kevin's mission is to spread the word about alternative therapies that work so that others don't have to go through the same experience. Some of the 9…

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  Nourished Kitchen

• Giveaway: Cuisinart Immersion Blender ($90 Value)

  Jenny

  26 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  I love my immersion blender.  No, really.  I love my immersion blender. You see, broth comprises a huge aspect of our diet and, as a result, so do soups.  And the immersion blender makes it so easy to prepare simple pureed soups like curried lentil soup with coconut and I also use it frequently with dishes like apple pear sauce.  It’s easy, efficient and streamlined and not nearly as clumsy, clunky or hard to clean as a regular blender (though I have one of those, too.)So this week, I’m giving away an immersion blender?  See, it’s just part of the…

• Blueberry Almond Crumb Muffins

  Jenny

  25 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  The Thing About Blueberries . . . is that they don’t grind their Harleys over the hot desert tarmac, or throw eight-course dinner parties at Monet’s garden in Giverny, or eat jellied eels from a stall in London.  Because – let’s face it – blueberries are homebodies. Plump, delectable little delights that know all too well the simple pleasures of laughing till you snort at the kitchen table, sipping chai in your slippers and licking batter off a spoon. And when it comes to freshly-baked happiness, they want to be your muse and your morsel.So, are you ready to be…

• Sourdough Black Forest Cake

  Jenny

  23 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  In our home, one of our favorite cakes for special occasions is Black Forest Cake, a scrumptious torte made from layers of dark chocolate cake, sour cherries, and cherry-flavored whipped cream. As we’ve sought to eat more nourishing and traditional foods, I’ve wondered how best to prepare the rare sweet treat like this one, but with a bit of experimentation (and with a bit of inspiration from other real food bloggers), I’ve stumbled upon a cake we truly love and that I feel excited about serving.Of course, even though this recipe uses alternative sweeteners and traditional…

• Pantry Paratus Discount: $10 Off an Order of $60 or More.

  Jenny

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:33 am

  Last week, Pantry Paratus offered to giveaway a tortilla press and bag of white wheat to a lucky Nourished Kitchen reader.  The winner’s been announced and Victoria (entry #3700) has won the giveaway!  But, if you’re not Victoria, I’ve still got a bonus for you.  Pantry Paratus has generously offered all Nourished Kitchen readers a special discount.  I know many of you loved the site – her grain grinders, dehydrators, pressure cookers and all the goodies for the modern homestead.get the discountPantry Paratus is offering Nourished Kitchen readers…

• Giveaway: Big Berkey Water Filter ($258 Value)

  Jenny

  20 Jan 2012 | 7:46 am

  Yesterday, I wrote extensively about why it’s important to filter your drinking water (and your cooking and bathing water, too).  So I know you’ll be thrilled that this week’s giveaway is a Big Berkey system valued at $258.  This is the system we use in my home, and I love it.  It’s simple, clean, attractive and efficient.win this: Big Berkey water filter ($258 value)This week we’re giving away a Big Berkey System valued at $258 from LPC survival.  We have a Berkey filter in my home and we love it, so I’m sure you’ll love yours…

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  HealthCastle.com Nutrition Tips

• Have a Sore Throat? Try These Food Remedies

  Gloria Tsang, RD

  27 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am

  (HealthCastle.com) It's swollen, and you feel grumpy. Often, you dread the simple task of swallowing. If you have a sore throat, you may want to try one or more of the following food remedies! read more

• Beware: You Can Still Overeat with "Healthy" or "Natural" Foods

  Sofia Layarda, MPH, RD

  26 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am

  (HealthCastle.com) As the saying goes, you can have too much of a good thing. Nowhere is this clearer than the new show premiering tonight on Food Network, called Fat Chef, where overweight culinary professionals spend four months taking back control of their weight with the help of trainers, nutritionists, and therapists. ​Even Healthy Foods Can Cause Weight Gain Christine Avanti, the health consultant for the show Fat Chef, identified the following common challenges among the show's participants: read more

• What to Eat Tonight? Five Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Dinner

  Beth Ehrensberger, MPH, RD

  25 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am

  (HealthCastle.com) Cooking even a simple hot breakfast can seem like too great an investment of precious time when you’re rushing to get out the door in the morning. But when day turns to night, even the most time-consuming breakfast is still quicker than most things you can whip up for dinner. With minimal cleanup, easy ingredients, and comforting flavors, breakfast for dinner makes the perfect meal swap for a healthy evening nosh. read more

• Beyond Semolina: Top 5 Non-Wheat Pastas

  Sofia Layarda, MPH, RD

  23 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am

  (HealthCastle.com) As a pantry staple, one of the easiest ways to get more whole grain into your diet is to try the growing number of pastas made with whole grains beyond the traditional durum semolina. Thankfully, the days of cardboard-tasting non-wheat pastas are well behind us! ​Top 5 Non-W​heat Pastas ​Brown Rice  read more

• The ADHD Diet

  Gloria Tsang, RD

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am

  (HealthCastle.com) If your family is dealing with ADHD, you are probably looking for all the information you can get on how to help your child focus, control their impulses, and succeed in school. Does any of the common food elimination practices work? read more

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  Planet Raw

• 10 Ways to Create a Ravishingly Radiant Fresh Start! Part 3

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  Welcome to the third and final part of this 3-part series. So far we have looked at: Clear Your Mind, Indulge Your Vision, Freshen up Your Diet, Clear Your Desk, Streamline Your Diary, Re-Organise Your Office and Empty Your Car. Hopefully by now you will have done at LEAST 3 of those things if you're serious about cleaning up your act in 2012! This week, the final three: Spring Clean Your Home, Review Your Finances and Refresh Your Relationships. Ready to go? Let's do it! 8) Spring Clean Your Home Last week you started with your desk and then extended...

• Preserving the Harvest: When Your Produce Wilts

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  This isn’t something from MY harvest but it is from someone’s garden/farm. I’d bought a bunch of parsley and when I remembered it, it was languishing in the refrigerator. I don’t like to throw out food so I decided I’d see what I could do. Taking the wilted sprigs out of the bag, I cut the ends off with a sharp knife. Don’t use scissors for this. They will crush the stems. Then I stuck the whole thing in a jar of purified water. It looked pretty sad and I was wondering if I should write it off as a loss and discard it. I decided to give it a chance, though. I was glad I did…

• Dr. Connealy on Camera: Cancer is Systemic!

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  Dr. Connealy explains here how cancer is not a tumor—it’s a systemic problem and therefore must be treated systemically:

• Vegan deficiencies: Vegan gets passed by thousands.

  25 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  Look at all the meat eaters passing the lone deficient vegan.

• OMG! I Bought a Norwalk Juicer

  25 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  Holy shit! There goes my potty mouth again. I guess I’m starting to get more comfortable around you guys. I ordered a Norwalk Juicer. Do I even need to say anymore???? Ok, I will! I ordered it on Sunday night. :) Greg and I have been talking about the awesomeness of the Norwalk Juicer (a.k.a. the ultimate in juicing, hands down, the highest quality, bestest – yes, I just wrote “bestest” juice, because it warrants that. Ever. On the planet.) I’m sure you can sense a bit of my excitement. Where was I? Oh yeah, Greg and I have been discussing the Norwalk for about three years.

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  Nutrition Unplugged

• Why It’s Good To Eat Old-School

  Janet

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:33 pm

  If you’re a regular reader, then you know I love food trends.  I’ve already written about several 2012 food trend predictions. So there’s nothing wrong with following the trends and tracking what’s hot, but sometimes it’s good to kick it back old school.  Trendy foods get all the glory, yet there are plenty of foods that are worthy of your attention even though they’ve fallen out of fashion.  That was the topic of my latest  post on WebMD’s blog Real Life Nutrition.  Hope you’ll check it out. For my article, I asked a few of my…

• What is Paula Deen’s Responsibility?

  Janet

  13 Jan 2012 | 9:04 pm

  photo:  Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images There’s been a lot of buzz today about Paula Deen announcing that she has type 2 diabetes.  And there’s been no shortage of criticism that her decadent, high-fat cooking has caught up with her — and is doing lots of harm to the American public.  I just turned on the TV in my hotel room and there she was.  I stopped to watch her cook with her son Bobby and it was rather shocking.  In the first few minutes I heard everything from “dangerously delicious” and “guilty pleasure” to “the devil is in this…

• Five Nutrition Mistakes Not to Make in 2012

  Janet

  5 Jan 2012 | 8:20 pm

  Perhaps you’re inspired to make some personal changes in the new year. That’s great – as long as you have a plan in place to make it happen. Losing weight tends to top the resolution lists for lots of folks.  If that’s your goal, just be sure to stack the deck in your favor so the changes you make stick and you achieve long-term success. That’s the topic of my latest post for WebMD.  I wrote about  five D’s that could derail your efforts.  Avoiding these D’s could help you avoid another big D — feeling defeated. To read more, check out WebMD’s Real Life…

• When Did ‘Skinny’ Become the New Ideal?

  Janet

  2 Jan 2012 | 4:27 pm

  I recently heard a radio commercial for a diet pill that promised to get you “high school skinny.” It just struck me how often I’m hearing the word “skinny” these days. When did skinny become the new ideal? So many of the popular diet books seem to have skinny in the title. Have you noticed?  Perhaps the trend got started a few years ago with the success of Skinny Bitch which is a vegan book that sparked an entire line of skinny books and products. Now you can read about the Secrets of Skinny Chicks and Unleash Your Inner Skinny while wearing your skinny jeans and sipping a…

• 2012 Food Trends: What’s Hot, What’s Not

  Janet

  1 Jan 2012 | 8:48 am

  Happy New Year to all.  Hope 2012 will bring you lots of joy, great health and good food. What do you plan to eat more in 2012?  I suggest putting your focus on whole, real foods instead of seeking out the next big superfood.  The folks at The Hartman Group have put together an excellent report that looks at the food culture in 2012.  They say “nutritionism” is at an all time high.  This refers to celebrating or demonizing particular ingredients at the expense of the food itself, allowing the popularity of processed foods (such as potato chips with added fiber) to flourish…

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  Raise Healthy Eaters

• Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup

  Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, MS, RD

  24 Jan 2012 | 9:20 am

  If you’ve read this blog for a while you’ve probably figured out that I like black beans. My husband does too and my kids will eat them (usually stuffed in a burrito or quesidilla). I’ve been trying to make soup each week this winter (it’s been about every other week). Last week I combined this recipe from Weelicious with this one from All Recipes and came out with a really wonderful soup. I used dried beans and after 8 hours in my slow cooker they were perfect — firm but not too firm. Your slow cooker might require a longer cook time — up to 10 hours.

• Expert Interview: Lucy Cooke, PhD

  Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, MS, RD

  20 Jan 2012 | 11:10 am

  During the process of writing Fearless Feeding, I’m going through an immense amount of research. I’ve been interviewing researchers and want to bring some of their wisdom and perspective to you. Today we have Dr. Lucy Cooke, Senior Research Associate at UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in London. Her expertise includes the development of children’s food preferences and eating habits and childhood obesity. She has a PhD in Psychology and MSc in Health Psychology from the University College London and has published numerous research articles in various peer-…

• Black Bean Brownies

  Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, MS, RD

  17 Jan 2012 | 8:53 am

  I’ve been wanting to try this recipe I found on the Meal Makeover Mom’s blog for some time now. I don’t usually ”healthify” dessert but these sound so intriguing. I have to admit, my chocolate-loving husband was skeptical. Me: Should I make black bean brownies? Him: Do what you want, but I probably won’t eat them Me: Will you at least try them? Him: Yes So I made them but of course was missing the right pan so I used my muffin pan. The dinner I was making tool longer than planned so I took a bite of one. Then my husband took a bite and he kept going…

• Did You Make This Feeding Mistake the First 2 Years?

  Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, MS, RD

  9 Jan 2012 | 8:54 am

  Even though it was over 5 years ago, I’ll never forget my first experience feeding my daughter.  The nurse helped her latch and I couldn’t help but feel how unnatural it all felt.  We had to wake her up for feedings, it was excruciatingly painful and she seemed to hate it.  And I absolutely dreaded every single feeding. One of the lactation consultants I hired (long story, but I went through many) told me that my daughter didn’t like to breastfeed because it wasn’t a place she wanted to be.  In a hormonal sleep-deprived fit, I thought to myself “so in…

• Veggie Nuggets

  Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, MS, RD

  3 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am

  I thought it would be appropriate for my first post of the New Year to be a vegetable dish.  I’ve been wanting to try this one for awhile now after seeing it on one of my favorite food blogs — Weekly Bite. Estela is so creative with food ideas for kids. This turned out great!  I offered it as a pre-dinner appetizer and Little D ate one and Big A nibbled (that is good for her!).  I doubled the recipe because I have found that half bags of anything in my freezer tend not to get used or thrown out.  This makes a great finger food or as a snack or a side with dinner.  Anyone else…

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  Real Food for Life

• Pears: ‘Gift of the Gods’

  Diana Herrington

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am

  Homer, famous author of the Odyessy, called pears “gift of the gods. Thousands (including me) would agree!

• Chinese Vegetables

  Diana Herrington

  23 Jan 2012 | 1:18 pm

  It is Chinese New Year! The year of the Dragon.  In China the dragon is the symbol of good fortune and intense power; it is regarded as a divine beast. Here is my version of Chinese vegetables to celebrate today. Ingredients: 1/4 lb. carrots, sliced in large pieces1/4 lb. Chinese Broccoli (Gai Lan) or broccoli [...]

• Pear Upside Down Cake – Vegan Gluten Free

  Diana Herrington

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:48 pm

  Gluten free, dairy & egg free I heard my sister had made a pear upside down cake last fall from the pears I gave her so I got down to making up my recipe without all the ingredients that would usually go in. Ingredients: 1/2 cup vegetable oil1/2 cup rice syrup1 tsp molasses Mix together [...]

• Pear Hazelnut Crumble

  Diana Herrington

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:42 pm

    In the fall I picked so many pears from a friends tree that I had get creative and this is one very yummy result. Base Ingredients:5 cups pears Directions:1.    Core and slice pears.2.    Place pears in a baking dish. Crumble Topping Ingredients: 3/4 cup brown rice flour2 cup oatmeal flakes 1/4 tsp. salt1/3 cup [...]

• Cranberry-Celery-Onion Stuffing

  Diana Herrington

  19 Dec 2011 | 9:01 pm

  Ingredients: 1/2 cup ghee (clarified butter) or coconut oil2 large onions, peeled, chopped1 whole celery, chopped1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries or 1 cup dried cranberries soaked in water overnight3/4 teaspoon saltFreshly ground black pepper2 tsp teaspoon Sage1 tsp teaspoon Thyme1 tsp teaspoon Savory1 loaf whole wheat bread or gluten free bread (tear into pieces & [...]

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  AstroNutrition

• Healthy Habits for Weight Management

  AstroNutrition

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:48 pm

  In order to lose weight most people need to follow a diet or other weight loss program and increase their activity levels.  But when it comes to weight maintenance, that’s when things can get somewhat more complicated.  All too often, people who have successfully lost weight, gain it back once they’ve reached their weight loss goals. weight management.jpg read more

• Eating Clean for Weight Loss

  AstroNutrition

  26 Jan 2012 | 1:20 pm

  Sometimes losing weight doesn’t have to mean following a diet guru or cutting out all of your favourite foods.  Sometimes weight loss can be successfully achieved simply by eating clean.  whole living foods.jpg read more

• PRODUCT REVIEW: Taurine

  AstroNutrition

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:47 pm

  Taurine is an amino acid that functions as one of the building blocks of other aminos.  As such, though it is known as a semi-essential amino acid, it is key to many of the body’s functions. astronutrition.com-Now-Taurine-Capsules---500-mg-100-capsules-31.jpg read more

• Best Calorie Burning Workouts

  AstroNutrition

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:28 pm

  If you’re looking to shed pounds than you’ll definitely want to increase your physical activity levels alongside a healthy eating plan.  By increasing your aerobic activity you will burn calories and thereby lose weight more quickly.  However, when it comes to exercise, just how much is enough? calorie burning.jpg read more

• PRODUCT REVIEW: Soy Protein Isolate

  AstroNutrition

  23 Jan 2012 | 3:17 pm

  Soy protein is a nutritional supplement that has been used for ages in Asia as a source of nutrient and as a medicine.  Soy Protein isolate as developed in the 1960s made it possible for a product to be developed that didn’t have some of the gastrointestinal issues associated with the original varieties. astronutrition.com-Now-Soy-Protein-Isolate---1-lb-31.jpg read more

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  Dr Bill Dean

• Understanding Nutritional Disease: Energy Science Nutrition

  Dr Bill Dean

  15 Jan 2012 | 1:08 pm

  When the term "nutritional disease" is used it often conjures up the notion of deficiency for us or already existing disease that is advanced Somehow there is a lack of nutrients in inner space leading to physiologic dysfunction of the tissues and hence even at the intracellular level  For example, folic acid deficiency can lead to neural tube defects in the developing fetus if the mother does not have adequate stores of this vitamin  Or the lack of iron in the diet of a vegan could lead to anemia  Or diabetes, stroke, and heart disease is present Beyond Molecular…

• Happy New Year From Energy Science Nutrition

  Dr Bill Dean

  1 Jan 2012 | 1:43 pm

    Wishing you all the best for 2012   May all your resolutions               be known and realized…

• Winter Time and Biological Kapha Energy

  Dr Bill Dean

  6 Dec 2011 | 3:10 pm

  The Kapha energy pattern is intimately associated with our current struggle with obesity which leads to so many other Kapha related diseases Our search for a solution to the obesity problem worldwide requires that we change our view of the way we see the human body since our current molecular or matter science medical model is incomplete From an energy science view the Winter time is when we should pay particualar attention to the biological Kapha energy pattern because as we have talked about before, we pile on the vibrational frequencies of cold, heavy, slow/dull, static/stable, dense and…

• Happy Thanksgiving From Energy Science Nutrition

  Dr Bill Dean

  23 Nov 2011 | 8:10 am

  Whether we are spending the holiday weekend with a new extended loving community or with our immediate family, Happy Thanksgiving and best wishes as we enter the winter holiday season  Love Dr Bill Dean and the Energy Science blog

• Food Incompatabilities and Fruit Smoothies; Energy Science Nutrition

  Dr Bill Dean

  13 Nov 2011 | 8:31 pm

  The rage is fruit smoothies these days but from an energy science view it's not a good combination  Fruit with any other food and that includes milk should be kept separate  But there's so much more about incomapatability that the energy science of Ayurveda has to say The concept of food incompatability is not a well known concept in matter science nutrition circles but from an energy science view there is a large volume of information since ingestion of incompatable combinations lead to disease Matter science has a few things to say about incompatable foods  Some say that it…

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  Look Good Feel Great Always

• Your Body Type Can Affect Your Weight Loss

  chongsulee

  24 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  If you find that you are dieting and working very hard but barely able to keep the weight off, you should look at your body type. Every person has unique genetic traits that affect the body shape, metabolism and fat burning. Dr. William Sheldon, a psychologist, made extensive study of body type (somatype) in 1940, and relates the body type to temperament and personality traits. There are 3 body types; mesomorph, ectomorph and endomorph. Mesomorph People with mesomorph body types are naturally gifted body builder and athlete. They are naturally lean, broad shoulder and muscular. They gain…

• 10 Tips For A Healthy Chinese New Year

  chongsulee

  22 Jan 2012 | 3:15 am

  Chinese New Year is right at our doorsteps. For the Chinese around the world, it is the time of the year when you find good company, reunion of relatives and friends and delicious meals, cakes and delicacies. Amid the festivities and feastings, it is easy to let down our hair and indulge in whatever is presented to us. Here are 10 tips on enjoying the festive season without comprising on your health: 1. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables Many vegetables are used in Chinese New Year dishes that have symbolic meaning and you can eat more of ; Fatt Choy ( black hair moss) – Meaning…

• How To Prevent Stroke?

  chongsulee

  13 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  Stroke happens when blood flow to part of the brain is cut off, preventing the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to brain cells. This cause the brain cells to die, affecting the functions that are controlled by that part of the brain. Stroke is a “brain-attack” and when it happens, it can be debilitating, impacting not just the victim himself but the family members as well.  The development of stroke happens silently in the body without any signs and symptoms.  Stroke would have already occurred when you start to feel the following symptoms: Sudden numbness or weakness of face, arm and…

• Energy For Your Daily Life – Foods That Increase Energy

  chongsulee

  10 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  In my last post, we look at how increasing thermogenesis leads to higher metabolic rate and more energy. Let’s look at what food can increase thermogenesis and gives you more energy, burns fat and lose weight. 1) Caffeine Caffeine is well-known to stimulate metabolism. When caffeine is taken before aerobic activity, it helps to increase caloric expenditure by burning fat as energy first, leaving the muscle glycogen last. In this way, it helps to improve the performance of endurance sports. 2) Capsaicin This is the ingredient in chilies that makes it hot and burning. Capsaicin increase…

• Energy For Your Daily Life – Energy Production

  chongsulee

  7 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm

  In my last post, I talked about we take energy from the food we eat. How does the body utilize the calories in the food we eat and generate energy? The energy in the food is transformed into heat energy by the process called Thermogenesis. Thermogenesis is a natural process by which the body generates heat or energy by increasing metabolic rate above normal. There are 3 types of thermogenesis: 1) Worked induced thermogenesis – heat energy generated from activities or exercises. The muscle create heat during activities because muscle work better and more effectively when it is warm. 2)…

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  Richard's Health Musings

• Metabolic Resistance Training for a Body Transformation

  Richard

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:33 pm

  MRT or for those of us that have too many acroynms to remember…metabolic resistance training requires a mop to wipe yourself off the floor when you are done.  MRT done right requires a maximum effort exercise output that yields fat torching, muscle building, effects in a minimal training time.   Metabolic resistance training kicks your metabolism into high … Continue reading »a.A post from: health and fitness

• Workout Wednesday Diesel Big Back Workout

  Richard

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:43 pm

  Today’s edition of Workout Wednesday is a workout from Smitty of Diesel Strength and Conditioning for developing a seriously big back that is strong to boot. This workout helps correct that forward hunching posture we have developed from countless hours sitting at our desks. I don’t know about you, but the start of 2012 has … Continue reading »a.A post from: health and fitness

• Lunch Break Work Out: Clubbell Mills

  Richard

  16 Jan 2012 | 12:20 pm

  Clubbell Mills for lunch? On a Snow Day? It seems that each day life becomes more hectic.  How many people are trying to juggle family responsibilities with work responsibilities and still leave time to exercise?  I can totally relate to having a demanding job and balancing family life…I have 3 kids under two and half years in age … Continue reading »a.A post from: health and fitness

• Circular Strength Training Certification in Two Months

  Richard

  12 Jan 2012 | 9:01 pm

  I am now less than 2 months from the Circular Strength Training Certification in March.  I am excited, nervous, and hopefully ready to face the challenging certification.  The CST certification is not an automatic pass just for showing up.  Part of the certification requires proficiency in certain physical skills.  The  requirements take a certain level … Continue reading »a.A post from: health and fitness

• A New Year and Time for Starting

  Richard

  5 Jan 2012 | 2:27 pm

  Welcome 2012, I am looking forward to a new year of possibilities and starting.  The first week of January in the blogosphere seems to be dedicated to goals / resolutions / lifestyle changes.  A common theme I keep hearing (and reading) is change is good for us.   Change, one of life’s necessities for happiness, but … Continue reading »a.A post from: health and fitness

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  Healthline Health Blogger Tara Gidus - Diet Diva

• Fact or Fad?

  Tara Gidus, MS, RD, CSSD, LD/N

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  The weight loss industry makes billions and billions of dollars every year telling us that by eating only bacon and eggs, grapefruit, or cabbage, we will get the body of our dreams. Fad diets are weight loss plans that promise dramatic results. So...

• Do I Need a Sports Drink During Exercise?

  Tara Gidus, MS, RD, CSSD, LD/N

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  Water is always an excellent choice for hydration; however sports drinks do have their place with athletes or with recreational gym goers. Today’s commercial drinks, such as PowerAde and Gatorade, incorporate electrolytes and carbohydrates with fl...

• Super Nutrient of the Week: The Health Benefits of Proanthocyanidins

  Tara Gidus, MS, RD, CSSD, LD/N

  23 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  Urinary tract infections (UTI’s) are common, painful, and disruptive infections that most often occur in women. No woman wants them and every woman wants to do everything to prevent them. It has always been a common thought that drinking cranberry...

• It’s Not Too Late to Fight the Flu!

  Tara Gidus, MS, RD, CSSD, LD/N

  20 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  There are no known cures for colds or the flu, so prevention should be your biggest goal. Being proactive is the best way to keep yourself and your family healthy. Here are some ways you can protect yourself from catching the flu this year.

• Super Nutrient of the Week: Why We Need Iron

  Tara Gidus, MS, RD, CSSD, LD/N

  13 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am

  For many of the populations that I work with (pregnant women and athletes), iron is an extremely important mineral that needs to be a part of their diets daily. Iron is required for a number of vital functions, including

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  Supplement Updates

• Don’t Let Your Cold Get the Best of You

  Guest Author

  11 Jan 2012 | 2:06 pm

  Don’t Let Your Cold Get the Best of You is a post from: Dr. Morrow's Dietary Supplement Blog.As we come down from the holiday high, we often distress into a sniffling mess. Many of us hit theMore…

• Probiotic Chewing Gum with Lactobacillus Improves Morning Breath

  Jarret Morrow, M.D.

  9 Jan 2012 | 7:17 pm

  Probiotic Chewing Gum with Lactobacillus Improves Morning Breath is a post from: Dr. Morrow's Dietary Supplement Blog.Just when you though you’ve heard of everything, researchers from the University of Copenhagen published the results of a studyMore…

• Whether or Not Weather Affects Arthritis Pain?

  Jarret Morrow, M.D.

  25 Dec 2011 | 3:30 pm

  Whether or Not Weather Affects Arthritis Pain? is a post from: Dr. Morrow's Dietary Supplement Blog.Research on if and how cold weather along with changes in atmospheric pressure affect the severity of your joint pain.

• What Impact Does Weight Loss Have on Arthritis Symptoms?

  Jarret Morrow, M.D.

  14 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am

  What Impact Does Weight Loss Have on Arthritis Symptoms? is a post from: Dr. Morrow's Dietary Supplement Blog.Based on the current available evidence, we’re smack-dab in the middle of an obesity epidemic. Rates of obesity are skyrocketingMore…

• Health Benefits of Green Tea?

  Jarret Morrow, M.D.

  26 Nov 2011 | 2:30 pm

  Health Benefits of Green Tea? is a post from: Dr. Morrow's Dietary Supplement Blog.Next to water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world.  Speaking of water, with all of theMore…

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  The Healthy Home Economist

• No Granola is Good Granola

  Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

  28 Jan 2012 | 6:31 am

  Several readers have emailed me recently inquiring about how to best go about making homemade granola. One reader carefully soaked his rolled oats for 24 hours in water with an acidic medium and then dehydrated before mixing with the other ingredients and toasting in the oven. Another reader used sprouted, organic rolled oats and baked in a 200F oven with various other ingredients to make her favorite version of homemade granola. (...)Read the rest of No Granola is Good Granola (371 words) © Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist for The Healthy Home Economist, 2012. | Permalink | No comment…

• How to Lose that Fatback in a Hurry

  Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:13 am

  By Fitness Editor Paula Jager, CSCS Seriously ladies (and gentlemen if you’re reading) are you really going to tell me the woman on the left looks better than the one on the right? If so you either need to go to confession or you’re really in denial. Don’t get me wrong I love fatback—in my turnip greens.                 (...)Read the rest of How to Lose that Fatback in a Hurry (675 words) © Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist for The Healthy Home Economist, 2012. | Permalink | 26 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: benefits of strength…

• Skip That Surgery: Most Wisdom Tooth Extractions Unnecessary

  Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:20 am

  Over Spring Break during my senior year in college, I had all four of my wisdom teeth surgically extracted like just about everyone else I knew my age.  Needless to say, I spent most of  my vacation on the living room couch with my mouth loaded with gauze! Prior to surgery, were my wisdom teeth infected or painful in any way? No. Were they causing any sort of problems for me whatsoever? No. Then why in the world did I have them out you might ask? Good question! (...)Read the rest of Skip That Surgery: Most Wisdom Tooth Extractions Unnecessary (674 words) © Sarah, The Healthy Home…

• Reducing Exposure to Dirty Electricity

  Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:40 am

  Electricity was originally intended as a “clean” and safe source of power for homes and businesses through standard usage of the steady electrical frequency of 60 oscillations per second, or 60 Hertz (Hz). Modern energy efficient devices, electronics, and other reasons such as earth currents can cause significant deviance from the 60 Hz frequency, however, and this pulsed exposure to spiking and unsafe frequencies of electromagnetic radiation (EMFs) on overloaded wires is what has become known as “dirty electricity”. Exposure to dirty electricity has the potential to…

• Video: How to Cook Oatmeal (the RIGHT way)

  Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

  23 Jan 2012 | 7:39 pm

  Instant Oatmeal is NOT a Healthy Breakfast! Do you eat oatmeal out of convenient, ready to use packets thinking this is a healthy start to the day? Reality Check: Ripping open a package of instant oatmeal, pouring it in a mug with some water and nuking it in the microwave for a couple minutes is NOT a nourishing breakfast! Don’t get me wrong here – oatmeal can and should be a healthy breakfast! How you cook the oatmeal, however, is the critical step that most people completely miss and which determines how much nourishment and benefit you will actually derive from the experience.

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  Food Confidence

• 90-Second Breakfast Idea

  Danielle Omar

  24 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am

  That’s right, I said it.  90 seconds to breakfast.  How? It’s actually super simple. Eggs + microwave = breakfast.   I’ve explained the steps below to several clients this week so I’m thinking a blog post is in order, don’t you?  It’s funny, whenever I’m describing it, I always get the same response…I see the ewwww look come across their face like I’m asking them to eat their own toenails!  I quickly have to say “Oh, I know it sounds gross, but it’s just eggs…really!” Why doesn’t anyone  ever believe me?

• {Meatless Monday} Sweet Potato, Leek & Black Bean Enchiladas

  Danielle Omar

  16 Jan 2012 | 8:34 am

  Happy Meatless Monday!  Enchiladas have become a regular thing at my house for a quick, weeknight meal.  They’re so easy to throw together with whatever you have on hand, and you really can’t screw them up!  Although my version is meatless, you could totally add cooked salmon, shrimp, grilled chicken or ground beef to it…I’ve tried it all! Because my husband is not a fan, I rarely use corn tortillas.  I’ve tried many brands of flour tortillas and find that La Tortilla Factory high fiber wraps work best…and they’re less than 100 calories each.

• Super Easy Carrot Soup

  Danielle Omar

  4 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm

  I’ve been eating this carrot soup for the last week for lunch.  It’s so cold here in DC, I have been craving hot food! Carrot soup is fun because it feels kinda creamy and decadent, but it’s totally healthy and super easy.  It’s also warm and cozy.  What more can you ask for? The ironic thing about this soup is…I don’t really like carrots. They are my least favorite veg and I usually only eat them with hummus. Especially the baby carrots in the bag…which are often tasteless. So don’t make this soup with them! I’m on a five-ingredient…

• My 3 Words for 2012

  Danielle Omar

  30 Dec 2011 | 1:31 pm

  Can three words really make a difference?  I think they can.  Last December around this time, instead of making a New Year’s resolution, I created three words.  The idea is Chris Brogan’s.  The three words were to summarize my focus and efforts in the coming year, and encompass my personal and professional goals.  I wrote my words on a post-it and stuck them to my computer monitor.  By doing so, I faced them almost everyday. And now it’s time to reflect.  How did I do? My three words in  2011 were:  Unite ♦ Invest ♦ Refine Remember, the words aren’t…

• {Recipe Redux} Sun-dried Tomato & Peas on Endive Spears

  Danielle Omar

  21 Dec 2011 | 7:21 am

  This month’s recipe redux is devoted to holiday party food — using beans or legumes! How fun is that? Since I always write about lentils and beans, I thought I’d give peas a star role for once.  Most of us grew up in eating peas and to some they may even be comfort food (ha, wishful thinking on my part, I think). Peas actually get a bad rap. They’re often overlooked as a starchy carb and not worth the effort (kinda like iceberg lettuce – another silly myth).  Peas are not even vegetables, they’re legumes — which means they bear fruit in the form of…

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  Green Grapes Nutrition Blog

• What do I Eat?

  Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD

  24 Jan 2012 | 3:03 am

  As a dietitian, people are always fascinated by what I eat. In the middle of a seminar, as I’m stressing the importance of planning and preparing ahead, I’ve had a group of women demand to know what’s in my “lunch bag that’s sitting over there.” I’ve had brides-to-be refuse to leave my office until I ran through my typical eating day with them, so they’d be assured that our plans were somewhat similar. I’ve had male clients inquire if I ate “protein … like animals … like things that used to move … not tofu mumbo jumbo …  because if you’re a vegan, no offense,…

• REVIEW: Rise Bars, Mary’s Love Cookies & Hint Water!

  Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD

  12 Jan 2012 | 1:29 pm

  Lately, I’ve been receiving quite a number of products to try and review. Below are three of my top choices. And if you’re gluten free and/or vegan, luck be a lady because all of these picks are right up your alley! Rise Bars Now, I always prefer real food over bars, but if you can’t manage a food-filled meal or snack (think veggies, fruit, lean protein, whole grains, beans … you know, the normal healthy gist) Rise Bars would be a snazzy alternative. I particularly fell in love with the protein bars, as they contain 5 ingredients or less and whey protein. Whey is one of the most…

• To Resolution or Not? Plus, 21 Things I Learned, Live by, or Reconfirmed in 2011

  Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD

  2 Jan 2012 | 1:12 am

  Most fitness or health folks, will tell you that they don’t believe in resolutions for a whole host of reasons, ranging from you should be practicing a healthy lifestyle all year round (not just during resolution time)  to after one month over 65% of people will forego their resolution. Now, these are both VERY valid points. But, I happen to like New Year’s resolutions for the simple point that they get you thinking of where you want to be. They help form goals, motivate, and push. As people, we’re always evolving, learning, and adapting. Without looking back, how can we learn?

• The Doctors Doctor-Up Hangover Breakfasts!

  Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD

  28 Dec 2011 | 6:39 pm

  No, no this post is not an entitlement from me to you to get completely smashed on New Years. However, I  do live in reality and recognize that New Years is quite a festive time that often involves alcohol. And, most often too much alcohol. And, we all know that too much alcohol leads to the not-so-hot hangover. If you happen to find yourself in the hungover category, The Doctors have provided some hangover cures for the next day–involving delish simple healthy ingredients! But, before we launch into the “cures,” let’s chat a tad about prevention. When asking The…

• Waist-Friendly “Unusual” Food Swaps … I Dig

  Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD

  20 Dec 2011 | 1:53 am

  I’m always looking for ways to add flavor, nutrition, and a little oomph to my food. And, if I can make my meals and snacks … or treats, more waistline friendly, then even better! Below are some of my top favorite swaps. They’re easy, quick, and taste good! Beans in Place of Eggs and Oil in Your Brownie Mix: Like brownies? Nix the eggs, oil, and other fixings and simply mix the brownie mix with a can of drained and rinsed, blended black beans and bake! Just blend the black beans in a food processor til super smooth for a creamier texture. Yes, this may sound quite odd, but I assure…

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  Laurel On Health Food

• Review: Hummus Place (Again)

  laurel

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:09 pm

  Greetings from Florida! I’m working in FL for the next few weeks, and I’m really enjoying the warm weather, sunshine, and time with friends. It doesn’t even feel like winter here. I laid out by the pool yesterday for Pete’s sake. I’m here to work, but I’m determined to enjoy myself too. Almost exactly one [...]Review: Hummus Place (Again) is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

• Easy, Healthy Lunch or Dinner

  laurel

  19 Jan 2012 | 11:49 am

  Ya know how I was talking about centering your meal around vegetables? Here’s an easy, healthy veggie wrap I made that’s great for a light lunch or dinner. I’ve been eating them every day this week, and they only take 5 minutes to prepare. Adding lots of tasty spreads and a dash of salt and [...]Easy, Healthy Lunch or Dinner is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

• Veggie Skewers w/ Chimichurri

  laurel

  17 Jan 2012 | 8:55 am

  Centering your meals around vegetables is a great healthy practice and helps you feel satisfied instead of stuffed when you’re done eating. On Friday, my best buddy Lauren was in town for the weekend and we stayed in for dinner and a movie at home. She wanted to make some kind of skewers, and with [...]Veggie Skewers w/ Chimichurri is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

• Fresh Fish, Part 2

  laurel

  11 Jan 2012 | 2:45 pm

  Yesterday I shared my recipe for a grilled sea bass sandwich with sriracha mayo in the Fresh Fish, Part 1 post. Today I’ve got a make-you-drool crab and scallop chowder. This is a perfect meal for the winter time. It’s warm and comforting and great to pair with a small salad or serving of green [...]Fresh Fish, Part 2 is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

• Fresh Fish, Part 1

  laurel

  10 Jan 2012 | 2:41 pm

  Last weekend I bought some fresh seafood from Fairway, a well-known grocery store in NYC. In my opinion, Fairway is one of the best places to buy seafood because their fish counter is nestled inside a walk-in refrigerated section of the store that ensures everything stays super fresh. The fish is always kept super cold [...]Fresh Fish, Part 1 is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

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  Weight Loss Help and Tips

• What are liquid diets and do they work for weight loss?

  Hara Hagikalfa

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:34 am

  Fast weight loss, no calorie counting and no hassle. This sounds like every dieters heaven and a dream come true. This is also what most liquid diets profess to offer, but is it too good to be true?Liquid diets definedA liquid diet is more or less what it says on the box; a dietary pattern which consists mainly of fluids (liquids). There are a number of different ways and patterns in which liquids diets can be followed, depending on who has devised the dietary plans. Some liquid diets suggest replacing all meals with a liquid of some sort and some which replace only some of the daily meals…

• 20 ways to burn 100 calories in 10 minutes or less

  Alex Chris

  22 Jan 2012 | 11:16 am

  Do you know that by burning just 100 calories (extra) per day you can lose about one pound per month without extra effort? It sounds good and really is if you manage to spend just 10 minutes per day. This will not be your ‘official’ exercise routine but the ace in your sleeve to get faster results.Everybody can find 10 minutes per day to work out and there are hundreds of exercises to choose from. You can even do them at home or at a time it suits you better. Most people prefer to exercise in the morning before going to work and this is the best time to exercise. Morning exercises are…

• The Difference between Weight Loss and Fat Loss and Why You Should Care

  Brad Kelly

  16 Jan 2012 | 11:27 am

  What is really the difference between weight loss, fat loss and muscle loss and should you really care? Does the scale lie or is there a relationship between weight and fat loss?The answer is straightforward and this is what we are discussing below.Weight loss – Water Weight – Fat loss – Muscle lossThe percentage of total overweight and even obese people is rising at alarming levels (Around 33% of Adults are Obese and 17% of Children). People are looking for more ways then ever to lose weight and that is fine, but what is not fine is some of the methods people are using to achieve…

• 10 most popular weight loss articles of 2011

  Alex Chris

  31 Dec 2011 | 10:38 am

  During 2011 thousands of people visited our web site, read our articles, commented on our posts and interacted with our free online tools. To wrap up a successful year for Weight Loss Help and Tips we have selected the 10 most popular posts of 2011. These are the posts that received the most comments and social media mentions (Facebook likes, Google+ and tweets). Go through our list and select your favorite posts and do not forge to share them with your social media friends! You can also register to our RSS Feed (on the sidebar) to receive our new articles directly in your inbox.Weight Loss…

• 7 tips for setting your new year’s weight loss resolutions

  Hara Hagikalfa

  27 Dec 2011 | 11:07 am

  One more year is coming to a close, the pads come out and the resolutions begin. January is actually the busiest time in the fitness and gym industry. February and March are probably the quietest with most people having given up on the weight loss and fitness effort…well until the bikini time comes around again. Setting New Year’s weight loss resolutions is no different than setting other goals. Your goals need to S.M.A.R.T, in other words: Simple-Measurable-Achievable-Realistic-Timely, but most importantly you need to have the desire and willpower to work hard towards your targets. In…

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  Oasis Health & Wellness Blog

• Alzheimer’s Disease – Researchers Discover Importance of Tocopherols and Tocotrienols

  Dr. Lanphier

  23 Jan 2012 | 12:16 pm

  Swedish researchers have discovered that the lower your brain levels of tocotrienols and tocopherols (the entire family of vitamin E) the higher the chance that you will experience mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease. The study led by Mangialasche, F. and colleagues from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden discovered that among study participants, high serum levels of vitamin E were associated with approximately a 50 percent reduction in the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.  The Swedish researchers analyzed the vitamin E status in 168 people with Alzheimer’s, 166…

• 1 in 4 American Women on Drugs for Stress, Depression, Anxiety

  Dr. Lanphier

  14 Dec 2011 | 12:12 pm

  More than one-in-five adult Americans took at least one pharmaceutical drug commonly used to treat a psychiatric or behavioral disorder in 2010 according to “America’s State of Mind,” a Medco Health Solutions, Inc. analysis of trends in mental health medication usage among approximately 2.5 million insured Americans, comparing utilization of antidepressants, antipsychotics, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs and anti-anxiety treatments from 2001 to 2010. Even more concerning about this situation is that for American women, the numbers rose to one in four.

• MegaHydrate: The Ultimate in Hydration & Anti-Aging

  Dr. Lanphier

  6 Nov 2011 | 2:14 pm

  Did you know that Researchers estimate that half of the world’s population is chronically dehydrated? And in America that level rises to 75 percent of the population? These are very eye-opening statistics when we consider that so many people are sipping on sodas, tea and coffee almost all day long. However, without the adequate hydration of pure and clean water your body’s biochemical and electrical processes quickly begin to break down. Even with all the beverages available to most people, I still see dehydration at an alarming rate. Dehydration impairs your ability to think,…

• Misdiagnosed B12 Deficiency: Know the Symptoms

  Dr. Lanphier

  27 Oct 2011 | 1:58 pm

  Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is one of the 13 vitamins our body must have for good health and wellness. It is not only essential for the production of red blood cells but also supports the protection of a healthy nervous system.  It is also an essential element in the construction of our DNA. B12 deficiency damages the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and nerves of the eye.  In 1934, Whipple, Murphy, and Minot shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their life saving discovery found in liver.  The disorder was referred to as “pernicious anemia” because before this…

• Ten Ways to Love

  Dr. Lanphier

  26 Sep 2011 | 3:44 pm

  What a better world, better relationships and better emotional health we would enjoy if we followed the very wise advice below. “

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  Shed Your Weight

• Dieting Smart: Finding the Right Diet for You

  admin

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:51 pm

  In a world where organizations mine data at every corner of the web, those who organize that information and present it efficiently, reign king. When it comes to the best diets on the market, FindTheBest has done just that. Whether you’re twenty-three and entering the working world, or about to retire, it’s easy to get stuck [...]

• Does your diet give you freedom?

  admin

  22 Dec 2011 | 2:05 pm

• Is your diet safe?

  admin

  22 Dec 2011 | 2:03 pm

• Does your diet taste like this?

  admin

  22 Dec 2011 | 2:02 pm

• Kirstie Alley Weight Loss

  admin

  21 Dec 2011 | 1:50 am

  Seemingly reborn and rejuvenated after her appearance on ‘Dancing with the Stars’, Kirstie Alley is proud of the fact that she has lost close to 100 pounds. Kirstie Alley’s battle with weight has been well known for a long time now. From the time she debuted on ‘Cheers’ as a svelte 120 pound woman to [...]

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  Melanie's Corner

• Think Healthy Thursday: Happy Hour? Water May be the Best Boost

  LZX Team

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:31 am

  Water is essential to health and well-being. But do you know the effects of not drinking enough water? A recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition demonstrates that there is a connection between dehydration and a number of ill effects, as reported in Time Magazine… The small study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, tested mood, concentration and mental skills in 25 women who either were given enough fluids to remain optimally hydrated or were induced into a mildly dehydrated state. Dehydration was achieved through either exercise alone or by using both exercise and a diuretic…

• Movie Monday: Smart Nutrition

  LZX Team

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:05 pm

  This week, we thought we would focus on teenagers. This time of our lives is both exciting and confusing. So many choices. Even decisions like what to eat and what not to eat can prove difficult and overwhelming. In Smart Nutrition, host Wes Halula and two teenagers break through the clutter and confusion with facts about breakfast, portion size, physical activity, the importance of fruits and vegetables, significant nutrients, late night snacking and more. They offer tips to help teenagers make the right decisions about their health and wellness. They present it in a fun and interesting way…

• Think Healthy Thursday: Create Health Campaigns that Excite Children

  LZX Team

  19 Jan 2012 | 9:13 am

  The Strong4Life campaign has received attention lately for their controversial campaign asking their audience in Georgia to “stop sugarcoating” the youth obesity problem. The ads feature young people talking about how they feel about their size. Proponents claim that this is the wakeup call needed to get parents and the  community to recognize that this is a problem that requires attention. Others oppose the ads because they seem to blame and/or exploit the victim. The ads have certainly raised the issue. Statistics from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) indicate that…

• Winner of 2nd Annual Facebook Review Contest Announced!

  LZX Team

  17 Jan 2012 | 2:14 pm

  We would like to thank all of the participants of this year’s Facebook Review Contest. It was so much fun reading about how you use LZX products, what you like, and what you don’t like. These prove helpful in our product development meetings. We are constantly coming up with new ideas for products, and customer reviews are priceless in this process. Without further ado, the winner of the 2nd Annual Learning ZoneXpress Facebook Review Contest is… Before I go on, I should quickly note that we also drew names for two runners up. These two individuals will each receive a$25 LZX…

• Movie Monday- Herbs & Spices

  LZX Team

  16 Jan 2012 | 1:35 pm

  This week we’re featuring one of my favorite  Learning ZoneXpress videos with Paulette Mitchell about herbs and spices. Paulette is a well known cookbook author as well as a culinary cruise ship chef. In this video, Herbs & Spices, Paulette shows us how various herbs & spices can give our food personality and how they are the essence of our world’s cuisines. She explains how to cook with these spices and offers a few recipes for us as well. (My favorite being basil pesto!) It’s easy to follow along, and the recipes demonstrated are easy enough to get the entire…

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  Health Kismet Blog

• Frozen Vegetables vs. Fresh Vegetables

  Jonathan

  26 Jan 2012 | 4:38 pm

  A lot of credence is given to the importance of eating raw, living plants as a way to promote health and wellness. That’s a good idea.  But what about frozen vegetables? Do they carry the same benefits as the fresh produce you buy at the superstore? Are they any better? Worse? Lindsay Nixon wrote about [...]

• Changing Your Behavior Is Really Hard

  Jonathan

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm

  Perhaps the best question is not why some diets fail, but how do any work at all? Here’s an excerpt from Time: 14 percent of lung cancer patients who continued to smoke cigarettes five months after diagnosis, according to a study in Cancer. The same was true of 9% of colorectal cancer patients. Most people who [...]

• Imaginary Food

  Jonathan

  22 Jan 2012 | 7:51 pm

  Our Food Has Changed Our food has become hollowed out. Millions of years of evolutionary pressures  have cultivated very particular tastes we have for what we put in our mouth, and for a long time (from about 200,000 B.C. until the 1950′s) this was all fine and well since these preferences corresponded to nutritional qualities [...]

• Why Natural Foods Are A Good Substitute For Drugs

  Jonathan

  20 Jan 2012 | 4:08 pm

  Because most drugs that go onto market are designed to mimic naturally occurring substances in the first place.  It’s the drug industry’s largest source of medicinal compounds. From the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists: Scrutiny of medical indications by source of compounds has demonstrated that natural products and related drugs are used to treat 87% [...]

• A Quick Update on Incredible Greens/Health Kismet (And How To Save Some Money!)

  Jonathan

  19 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm

  I’ve gotten a few question about when Health Kismet will be released. Right now, here’s where things stand. The Product Due to concern that the name isn’t descriptive enough the product is now going to be called Incredible Greens. This is so people have a better idea of what’s inside of it. Health Kismet is [...]

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  Melanie's Corner

• Think Healthy Thursday: Happy Hour? Water May be the Best Boost

  LZX Team

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:31 am

  Water is essential to health and well-being. But do you know the effects of not drinking enough water? A recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition demonstrates that there is a connection between dehydration and a number of ill effects, as reported in Time Magazine… The small study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, tested mood, concentration and mental skills in 25 women who either were given enough fluids to remain optimally hydrated or were induced into a mildly dehydrated state. Dehydration was achieved through either exercise alone or by using both exercise and a diuretic…

• Movie Monday: Smart Nutrition

  LZX Team

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:05 pm

  This week, we thought we would focus on teenagers. This time of our lives is both exciting and confusing. So many choices. Even decisions like what to eat and what not to eat can prove difficult and overwhelming. In Smart Nutrition, host Wes Halula and two teenagers break through the clutter and confusion with facts about breakfast, portion size, physical activity, the importance of fruits and vegetables, significant nutrients, late night snacking and more. They offer tips to help teenagers make the right decisions about their health and wellness. They present it in a fun and interesting way…

• Think Healthy Thursday: Create Health Campaigns that Excite Children

  LZX Team

  19 Jan 2012 | 9:13 am

  The Strong4Life campaign has received attention lately for their controversial campaign asking their audience in Georgia to “stop sugarcoating” the youth obesity problem. The ads feature young people talking about how they feel about their size. Proponents claim that this is the wakeup call needed to get parents and the  community to recognize that this is a problem that requires attention. Others oppose the ads because they seem to blame and/or exploit the victim. The ads have certainly raised the issue. Statistics from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) indicate that…

• Winner of 2nd Annual Facebook Review Contest Announced!

  LZX Team

  17 Jan 2012 | 2:14 pm

  We would like to thank all of the participants of this year’s Facebook Review Contest. It was so much fun reading about how you use LZX products, what you like, and what you don’t like. These prove helpful in our product development meetings. We are constantly coming up with new ideas for products, and customer reviews are priceless in this process. Without further ado, the winner of the 2nd Annual Learning ZoneXpress Facebook Review Contest is… Before I go on, I should quickly note that we also drew names for two runners up. These two individuals will each receive a$25 LZX…

• Movie Monday- Herbs & Spices

  LZX Team

  16 Jan 2012 | 1:35 pm

  This week we’re featuring one of my favorite  Learning ZoneXpress videos with Paulette Mitchell about herbs and spices. Paulette is a well known cookbook author as well as a culinary cruise ship chef. In this video, Herbs & Spices, Paulette shows us how various herbs & spices can give our food personality and how they are the essence of our world’s cuisines. She explains how to cook with these spices and offers a few recipes for us as well. (My favorite being basil pesto!) It’s easy to follow along, and the recipes demonstrated are easy enough to get the entire…

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  Slimming Diet Tips

• Shock Diet. How to lose weight after the holidays

  admin

  17 Jan 2012 | 9:50 am

  The Shock diet is different from other diets its exclusive literacy. This diet is designed for 7 days. Balanced combining fats, proteins, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins will narrow your waist, without harming the body. The essence of the shock diet consist of a daily caloric intake up to 1000-1200, dividing them into five meals during the week. The only condition on a diet you need to sit down once after the holidays.

• Why a Healthy Breakfast Is Important

  admin

  10 Jan 2012 | 9:15 am

  A healthy breakfast is important for many reasons. It not only helps you feel better at work, increase the level of concentration and the speed with which you are assigned to your task, but can also help you avoid the extra pounds. Nutritionists claim that regular breakfast is the key to steady and guaranteed weight loss. First, up to 12 hours of the day your metabolism is more intense than during the day or night, so all the calories that you get in the morning, "burn out" with your daily activity.

• Alkaline Diet

  admin

  2 Jan 2012 | 9:15 am

  The alkaline diet is the power supply system at which in the ration predominate fruits and vegetables and almost no animal products. In addition to the high content of vitamins, minerals and other trace elements, fruits and vegetables have some positive property. They create an alkaline environment in the body...

• Effective Diets And Their Results

  admin

  19 Dec 2011 | 9:33 am

  Effective diets it is the power supply system contribute to improvement of the body. We offer you a unique collection of effective diets and their results to suit every taste. The Hollywood diet The famous diet of Hollywood stars has been used for several generations of actors and constructed on a clear timetable and composition of ingredients.

• Japanese Diet – Lose Weight in 13 days

  admin

  6 Dec 2011 | 1:18 pm

  The Japanese diet is one of the most effective and popular diet in the world. For 13 days you can lose 7-8 kg, and the result of diet will last 2-3 years without any further effort! This diet has been designed especially for effective weight loss. From the diet should be completely eliminated sugar, salt, flour and confectionery products, alcoholic drinks. During the day, between meals, you need to drink 1.5-2 liters of mineral water without gas.

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  Northwest Nutrition

• Aussie Damper Recipe [1]

  Anne Myers-Wright RD/APD

  25 Jan 2012 | 11:32 am

  The 26th January is Australia Day so I thought I’d add a traditional damper recipe. Damper is a traditional Aussie bread that was made by stockmen whilst out in remote areas of the Australian bush. It is quite often made on camping trips, on the open fire, and there are lots of different takes on the basic flour, butter and milk recipe. Id say pretty much most Australians would have tried their hand at a damper at some stage.

• Nutrition in the News- trustworthy?

  Anne Myers-Wright RD/APD

  23 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am

  There are so many nutrition stories in the papers these days. People are interested and this is, of course, great. It can be a little tricky. There is so much and from various sources and a lot of the stories can be conflicting. It’s so confusing for people when the latest miracle food can prevent cancer one day and cause it the next. I can recall so many times when clients have come to my clinics to see me, holding the latest paper with the newest diet or the most recent nutrition claim. I learnt very quickly that I had to keep up with the papers (and the studies around the stories), so I…

• Boosting Your Metabolism

  Anne Myers-Wright RD/APD

  22 Jan 2012 | 4:58 pm

  You’ve probably heard people say “I cant lose weight because I have a slow metabolism”. There have been plenty of studies to show that people will lose weight when their calories are restricted but it is true that everyone will have a slightly different metabolic rate. But is it inevitable that someone with a slow metabolism is destined to be stuck with it forever and find it perpetually difficult to lose weight?

• Oaty Fruit Puddings

  Anne Myers-Wright RD/APD

  16 Jan 2012 | 2:59 pm

  Feel like pudding? Something warm and comforting on a cold January evening? This oaty fruit pudding recipe is a healthy twist on the crumble. If you are worried about your weight, individual serving sizes are a great idea for portion control. Enjoy!

• Keep calm and drink tea? [1]

  Anne Myers-Wright RD/APD

  13 Jan 2012 | 5:22 am

  In my office, as colleague has written “Keep calm and drink Tea” on our whiteboard in big red letters. Since being in the UK, I have discovered that it isn’t a myth; people here drink a lot of tea! In the workplace, there are frequent tea breaks but is the saying true? Does it help at work?

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  Fitness And Weight Loss Central

• Visualizing the Healthier You

  Dan Petraglia

  23 Jan 2012 | 2:27 pm

  Do you ever just ask yourself what you’d ultimately like to look like? Do you ever just sit back for a second, take a deep breath and ask yourself what is the person you’d really like to see in the mirror? I think this is only half of the real question here guys. Because its not just ... more »

• Getting a Healthier Head

  Dan Petraglia

  18 Jan 2012 | 2:57 pm

  Sometimes all it takes for some folks is simply talking about something frequently which will eventually translate to them doing it. The more I think we talk about these things the better. The more health and wellness related things you discuss with others, the more inclined you’ll be in following through with whatever was recommended ... more »

• How to Eat Out and Stay Healthy

  Dan Petraglia

  8 Jan 2012 | 8:40 pm

  There’s no getting around the fact that eating in restaurants is something we all do. Whether your a regular at your local Diner, or an occasional wine and dine enthusiast, it is an inevitability for most of us. Our friends are probably the biggest influence in eating at restaurants I’d say. Well, them or your significant other ... more »

• What is Cardio Exercise Best For?

  Dan Petraglia

  4 Jan 2012 | 10:26 pm

  I think that there are a lot of questions tied to this main question at hand. Like why should I do cardiovascular exercise to begin with? What is the best kind anyway? How often should I do it? Why isn’t it working for me in the way that I thought it would? The list of ... more »

• A Healthier New Year?

  Dan Petraglia

  2 Jan 2012 | 8:30 pm

  Every year we are obligated to make a new years resolution right? Its almost as if we’re expected to pick one thing that we want to accomplish. At the start of every new year this was always expected of me growing up. Now that all the growing is done I look back and think did I ever ... more »