A Weight-Loss Investment You Can Afford

A Weight-Loss Investment You Can Afford

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Want the best fitness investment money can buy? Spring for a set of light weights. There’s no denying the benefits of strength training. Too many women base their entire regimen of physical activity on cardio exercise. While running, jogging, walking and doing aerobics are all beneficial to the body, they…

Read More

Slow and Steady Wins the Diet Race

Slow and Steady Wins the Diet Race

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Don’t rush through the very best part of eating: tasting the flavors and enjoying the textures. It may sound simple, but chewing your food slowly and savoring every bite also helps you eat less. Many of us take just 10 minutes or less to wolf down a meal. It takes…

Read More

Tricks for Treats: Smart Choices

Tricks for Treats: Smart Choices

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and the same can certainly be said of the stomach. Cut out all of those tempting treats from your eating regimen and you’ll soon find yourself feeling deprived. Deprivation can be a recipe for diet disaster. Imagine how much you’ll long for that double…

Read More

Get Some Exercise — Period

Get Some Exercise — Period

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

There are just some times of the month when, regardless of how much of a gym rat you normally are, you can’t seem to get moving. Or it just plain hurts to engage in the exercise you usually do. If periods cramp your fitness style, then there are some ways…

Read More

Juicy Fruit: Sweet News for Orange Lovers

Juicy Fruit: Sweet News for Orange Lovers

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

There’s no denying the benefits of oranges. They have been touted as a superfood and with good reason. Oranges are loaded with herperidin, which has been shown to lower blood pressure as well as cholesterol. Oranges also have strong anti-inflammatory properties proven to ward off disease and fat. Oranges have…

Read More

Eat To Live, Don’t Live To Eat

Eat To Live, Don’t Live To Eat

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

It’s no big mystery why more than a third of the U.S. population is overweight. We’ve made food the center of our universe. From weddings to funerals to holidays, it seems like almost every milestone event in our lives revolves around food. The amount of energy spent on the what,…

Read More

Keep Your Cool

Keep Your Cool

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

The heat is on – summer is in full swing, and it’s easier and more convenient to have an outside workout than it is at any other time of the year. Whether you like to relax on the golf course or burn up some calories at a beach boot camp,…

Read More

Are You Getting Enough Potassium?

Are You Getting Enough Potassium?

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Potassium is an important mineral whose importance is often overlooked. However, it plays a huge role in optimal functioning of the heart, metabolism, muscles and the nervous system. Potassium also plays a role in maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance in body cells. Getting too little potassium is rare when one…

Read More

Happy and Healthy Hanukkah

Happy and Healthy Hanukkah

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

The Hanukkah festivities are in full swing. You may be tempted to indulge in those typical holiday foods, but look at these numbers before you leap into a plate of gourmet goodies. Hanukkah lasts for eight days, and most of the traditional foods are fried in oil to honor the…

Read More