Archive for May, 2012
Should I Cut Back on Coffee?
• For most of us, java isn’t harmful. It’s true that caffeine may raise blood pressure, so if you have hypertension, it’s smart to switch to decaf. Caffeine can also interfere with sleep; if you suspect it’s causing you to toss and turn, cut back. Otherwise, there is no health reason to stop drinking it. • It [...]
Drew Bees Workout Plan
hen I started training Drew Brees in 2004, I put him through a workout unlike any he’d done before. I used new exercises and equipment that made him stronger and leaner and improved his athleticism. Now I’m going to share that better-body blueprint with you. Use this routine to unlock your potential, speed up fat [...]
Cardio Exercises That You Can Perform At Home
Cardio exercises are those that are specifically designed to increase a person’s heart rate and keep it elevated for certain duration of time. This type of exercise routine is also known as an ‘aerobic exercise’. Some of the most popular forms of cardio exercises include brisk walking, swimming, jogging and running where a ‘no break’ [...]
Calcium: The key to strong bones and lifelong bone health
Calcium can seem confusing. How much should you get? Where should you get it? And what’s the deal with vitamin D, magnesium, and vitamin K? But once you understand the basics, it’s not that hard to include it in your diet and get the calcium you need. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the [...]
Making sense of dietary fat
A walk down the grocery aisle will confirm our obsession with low-fat foods. We’re bombarded with supposedly guilt-free options: baked potato chips, fat-free ice cream, low-fat candies, cookies, and cakes. But while our low-fat options have exploded, so have obesity rates. Clearly, low-fat foods and diets haven’t delivered on their trim, healthy promises. Despite what [...]
What are dietary supplements?
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) defines a dietary supplement as a product that: supplements the food you eat; contains one or more dietary ingredient (including vitamins; minerals; herbs or other botanicals; amino acids, and other substances); comes in pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid form; and is labeled as a dietary supplement. There [...]
Eating Super Foods Can Help You Lose Weight
Looking to drop an extra tent pounds? Believe it or not, it is possible to eat your way to thinner you, if you work scientifically proven super foods into your diet. According to Self’s new book, “The Drop Ten Diet”, eating these super foods can help you loose weight. Foods like wild salmon, with the [...]
Biking nutrition tips
Today is Bike to Work Day in many cities and towns across the Ocean State, and even the country. Officials are encouraging and supporting bicycling for local, short distance travel, in hopes of making our communities more bicycle friendly. Bonnie Frechette, Marketing Team Leader at Whole Foods, University Heights, joined Mary Larsen in downtown Providence to share [...]
Tips to eating healthy while dining out
In a world constantly on the move eating healthy can sometimes be thrown to the wayside for convenience and cost. At least, that’s what a few new studies with alarming statistics are suggesting. Earlier this month the United States Department of Agriculture released that as many as half of all American adults are eating at [...]
Tips for gluten-free eating
One out of 133 Americans has celiac disease, according to the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center, and as many as 41 percent of adults and 60 percent of children who have it are without symptoms. Celiac is an inherited auto-immune disorder that affects the lining of the small intestine. When a person with celiac disease [...]
