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Fast Weeknight Meal Recipes: Pastas, Fajitas, and Wraps
Posted on May 20, 2011
Ditch your humdrum mid-week chicken recipe and forget about ordering in. Thanks to these simple, easy recipes inspired by the season’s abundant produce, you can find a dinnertime alternative that’s both healthy and delicious.
How Parents Can Create Healthy Habits at Home
Posted on May 18, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has released its long-awaited guidelines for marketing food to children, but its reception has been less than welcoming. Parents and policy-makers alike are worried about its repercussions (and lack of force). So why not start building your family’s food guidelines at the dinner table?
Stay Healthy and Wealthy with Money-Saving Snacks
Posted on May 13, 2011
Saving money and eating right don’t always go hand in hand, but with these 11 quick tips you can get a nutritious bang for your buck. Easy swaps like canned salmon and homemade kale chips pack in calcium (to see just how much, check out our list of 14 Calcium-Rich Foods You Need to Eat Right Now).
Barbecue Your Way to Health and Happiness
Posted on May 12, 2011
Barbecuing is an essential summer ritual that sums up the very best in outdoor fun. But is it good for you, too? According to a recent study, barbecues are actually beneficial to our mental health.
7 Quick Cooking Tricks for Single Dieters
Posted on April 26, 2011
Live alone and find it hard to stick to a diet? Dr. Mike Moreno, author of The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor’s Plan Designed for Rapid Results, offers healthy eating tips just for you.
The Beauty Superfoods Shopping List
Posted on April 22, 2011
These nutritious foods benefit your hair, skin, and overall health, says acclaimed hair and makeup artist Eva Scrivo, author of Eva Scrivo on Beauty: The Tools, Techniques, and Insider Knowledge Every Woman Needs to Be Her Most Beautiful, Confident Self.
Fight Alzheimer’s with Dr. Oz’s Tips for Brain Health
Posted on April 19, 2011
The prevalence of Alzheimer’s is on the rise. Here, Dr. Mehmet Oz shares his must-follow lifestyle tips for Alzheimer prevention. From Alzheimer’s in America: The Shriver Report on Women and Alzheimer’s, a study by Maria Shriver and the Alzheimer’s Association.
Eat Sanely to Lose Weight and Better Your Health
Posted on March 21, 2011
Could improved health for people and planet be as simple as eating fewer animals, and less junk food and super-refined carbohydrates? Yes, says Mark Bittman, author of Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating.
9 Tips for Living a Fertile Lifestyle
Posted on March 16, 2011
You can take control of your reproductive function by living a healthy lifestyle. Here’s what you can do to increase your chances of producing viable sperm and high-quality eggs. From A Baby at Last!: The Couple’s Complete Guide to Getting Pregnant — from Cutting-Edge Treatments to Commonsense Wisdom, by Weill Cornell Medical Center physicians Zev Rosenwaks, M.D., and Marc Goldstein, M.D., with Mark L. Fuerst.
7 Creative Lunchtime “Life Hacks” You Can Use to Lose Weight
Posted on February 1, 2011
Here are specific action items you can use to alter your lunch routines to ultimately reduce your overall calorie intake. From The Flex Diet: Design Your Own Weight-Loss Plan by Dr. James Beckerman
Feeling Off-Balance? You May Have Acidosis
Posted on January 28, 2011
Actress Shirley MacLaine believes acidosis — a lack of oxygen and available calcium, which the body uses to maintain its alkaline balance — encourages an acidic, anaerobic body environment hospitable to the breeding of fungus, mold, bacteria, and viruses. The bestselling author of Sage-ing While Age-ing shares 12 ways to make sure you’re properly alkalized in order to keep your body balanced.
Get Great Guts: 4 Ways to Slow the Aging Process by Caring for Your Digestive System
Posted on June 24, 2010
Considering all the other life-threatening health problems we tend to worry about, it may seem that digestive distress ranks somewhere between canker sores and bunions in the pecking order of age-related problems. But the truth is that there’s a whole world inside your gut that influences how you age. So be kind to your stomach, say Drs. Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz in their book YOU: Staying Young, by taking these four steps.
What to Eat to Burn Fat and Lose Weight
Posted on June 1, 2010What, how, and when you eat tells your body if it should store or burn fat for fuel and if it should build muscle or waste it. These meal guidelines from the fat-burning eating plan in JJ Virgin’s book Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy will help you get rid of your fat in order to lean out your body.
7 Superfoods for Speeding Up Weight Loss
Posted on May 27, 2010Eating whole foods that are delicious, nutritious, filling, and low in carbohydrates makes it easy to lose weight — and keep it off. Even if you’re not counting your carbs, these super seven should appear regularly in your meals. By Dr. Eric C. Westman and Dr. Jeff S. Volek, authors of The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great
