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How to Calculate Your Caloric Needs and Lose Weight

Determining your individual caloric needs sounds almost as confusing as the most difficult problem you can think of, like solving the U.S. debt or finding world peace! Many people don’t understan...

Why You Should Stop Drinking Diet Soda

Diet soda may seem like a health conscious choice considering it’s void of the calories and sugar than regular soda, but buyer beware. Diet soda is chock full of artificial sweeteners and chemicals. A...

Eat More Fruits & Veggies

Americans are not eating enough fruits and vegetables according to a recent government report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s not too shocking considering the rates...

Half of All Heart Disease Deaths Could be Prevented

Today in the U.S. preventable risk factors, such as obesity and smoking, still account for 50 percent of deaths from cardiovascular disease among adults from 45 to 79 years old. Imagine, in this day a...

184,000 Deaths Per Year

Sugary drinks, like soda, account for 184,000 deaths per year worldwide according to a recent study published in the medical journal Circulation.This report, a first of its kind, analyzed global death...

Healthy Eating Trumps Exercise for Weight Loss

Do you want to lose weight? According to recent statistics, more than two-thirds of our adult population is obese in this country. Fewer than one-third of Americans are considered at a normal or healt...

More Than Two-Thirds of Americans Are Overweight or Obese

There are new, alarming statistics out this week published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine reporting that the adult U.S. population is now two-thirds obese. That means there are more people who...

Bye, Bye Trans Fats

Well, it’s official; we have said good-bye to our old ‘frenemy’ trans fats.  This is according to a new report out from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.   They have called it a pu...

Average Weight of Women and Men Increases 20%

According to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report women now are the same weight as men in 1960. The average American male weighed approximately 166.3 pounds back then, which was the av...

Father's Day

Father’s Day is just around the corner and what a great time to think about men’s health and dear old dad!Men often don’t take time to think about their own health and prevention of disease. So, make...

Time Traveling Food: The Complete History of Diets

Whether it’s with vinegar, cabbage or tapeworms, people have tried tons of different ways to lose weight. Dieting became a regular habit for many once corpulence was no longer in fashion, making for s...

6 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy

As I wind down the last few weeks of my pregnancy with baby Ficek, I thought it might be a good idea to jot down a few healthy eating tips for all those women who are about to become pregnant or...

National Women’s Health Week, Part II

Being a registered dietitian, I have my own nutrition-related tips for women as we recognize National Women’s Health Week.Here are my go-to tips for women:1. Maintain healthy weight --Reaching and ma...

National Women’s Health Week

My top 5 tips for women’s health, as we celebrate National Women’s Health Week this week:Eat healthy, bottom line you must consume a healthy, balanced diet for overall good health. Study after study p...

Does an Apple a Day Work?

You may have heard over the years the saying that, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Well, not exactly but sort of, it seems. According to recent findings by researchers from the University of M...

Key to Losing Weight

The key to losing weight is often a much sought after goal for many people, some people spend years attempting to do so.With a third of the U.S. population obese, it is no surprise weight loss tops th...

Eat for Eye Health

Eating for eye health is a relatively new idea and more is being written about it these days it seems. Powerful pigments found in antioxidants are key to eye health. Carrots were always thought to be...

Eighty Percent

Did you know that nearly 80 percent of the salt the average American eats every day comes from restaurant meals, take-out food and packaged products instead of home cooked meals? It’s true, according...