Fast and Easy Healthful Meal Staples

Fast and Easy Healthful Meal Staples

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Cooking healthy at home is easier than you think when you stock staples that are functional, healthful, and most of all, delicious. Having the right foods at hand when you need them can keep you from making fast-food runs or calling for pizza – plus, they can help you prepare…

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Add Avocado to Your Menu

Add Avocado to Your Menu

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Most people confuse an avocado as a vegetable when it’s actually a fruit. Whether used in a salad or prepared as guacamole, avocado isn’t just delicious — it packs a mean nutritional punch. Avocados, which are low in calories, are rich in Vitamin E, Vitamin C, thiamine and riboflavin. Each…

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Dieters: Music To Your Ears

Dieters: Music To Your Ears

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

There’s a reason MP3 players have taken over the gym. One of the best ways to pump up your adrenaline during a workout is to turn up the tunes. Studies have shown that listening to music can actually heighten the flow of your exercises. If you’re a runner, then the…

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Beyond Peanuts and Cracker Jacks

Beyond Peanuts and Cracker Jacks

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Summer is a great time to take in or even play a game of baseball. But the snack-bar offerings at ball parks have diversified their offerings from the usual sodden hot dogs, nachos and peanuts, not to mention sodas and warm beer. Lucky San Franciscans dine on jerk chicken, crab…

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Less Fat = More Pounds

Less Fat = More Pounds

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Nothing in life is free, even those fat-free foods. For many dieters, the fat-free trap is a real danger. People falsely assume that the “free” implies it’s a free for all, a license to eat all you want. But that’s hardly the case. Although a product may be low in…

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Eat Your Food Naked

Eat Your Food Naked

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Lean, healthy salads, fish and chicken quickly turn into high-calorie indulgences with the addition of dressings and sauces. Particularly when you’re dining out, order salad dressings and other sauces on the side. This way, you have control over how much or how little you add. When you order grilled fish…

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Take a Mental Health Day

Take a Mental Health Day

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

May is Mental Health Month and what better way to recognize the annual educational campaign than by achieving that peaceful, easy feeling. The U.S. Surgeon General reports that have of all Americans are faced with some sort of mental disorder at some time in their lives. In fact, mental illnesses…

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