Archive for May, 2012

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Tasty Tips for Healthier Eating

Try incorporating these tips from Koff to help make healthier food choices year-round: Be a qualitarian: Choose the best quality food available at every eating occasion — you are what you eat, and your body runs best on better-quality fuel. Go all-natural: Make sure when you buy something that claims to be “all-natural,” it really is as [...]


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Tips for healthy Eating, Weight Loss and Nutrition

· Planning what to eat and how to deal with foods that you find irresistible. · Incorporating physical activity into your schedule, and figuring out how to make sure you get to the gym on those days when you’re less likely to have the time or inclination to work out. Workouts increase the chances of [...]


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‘Fruit and Veggie Fest’ focuses on healthy eating

Food, fitness and fun are planned for the Network for a Healthy California’s “Fruit and Veggie Fest” to take place Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Grocery Outlet, 625 Commercial St. The Network for a Healthy California, in partnership with retailers across California, hosts a series of Fruit and Veggie Fests each [...]


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16 Tips to Triple Your Workout Effectiveness

Limit your workouts to 30-40 minutes. Though the tendency of some people who really want to get a lot out of their workouts is to spend a lot of time at the gym, the truth is that after 30 or 40 minutes, the benefit isn’t as great. To go that long, you’d have to lower [...]


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Weight Loss tips to get in Shape for Summer

- If you externalize blame, you attribute your problems to your gene pool, to another person or circumstance or event, often ignoring your own destructive behaviors. “My spouse is so critical and demanding – he makes me overeat.” When you internalize blame (blame yourself), you’re more likely to define yourself as hopeless or lost before [...]


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Amino Vitals Expert Nutritionist Tips

Nutrition should be part of their training program. After all, why not make the most of your training by fueling your body right? Nutrition can make a good athlete great or a great athlete merely good. Here are a few tips: Know your body. Don’t try something just because it worked for your neighbor, roommate [...]


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15 Best Workout Tips of all time

    Tone Up on the Treadmill “Save time at the gym with this 10-minute cardio/sculpt session: Hop on a treadmill holding a three- to five-pound dumbbell in each hand, and set the speed to a brisk walk. Do a one-minute set each of shoulder presses, biceps curls, triceps extensions, side laterals, front laterals and [...]


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Weight Loss Programs from an Expert

Diet Detective’s Random Weight Loss Tips to Help You Get in Shape I don’t go to a lot of parties, but when I do, I find that because I’m in the “diet” business and a professor of public health, I get asked all kinds of questions about how to lose weight. So here’s the advice [...]


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New Weight Loss Program Launched For Families

Nationwide Children’s Hospital just launched a new program to help families eat healthy meals and make nutritious food choices. The goal is to help cut the rate of childhood obesity. It’s called “Feeding Your Kids” and it is a program the sends parents emails and text messages either daily for 45 days, or for 90 [...]


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Mix It Up Online Nutrition Program to Improve Better Eating in the Workplace

Kaiser Permanente has launched a new online nutrition program designed for employers to help their employees improve their daily eating habits by including more fruits and vegetables. The Mix It Up program, from HealthWorks by Kaiser Permanente, emphasizes a varied selection of colorful produce and introduces participants to healthy eating patterns anyone can readily and [...]