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Reduce Snacking by Reducing Your Daily Stress with These 3 Tips

Snacking. Is it good or bad? This depends on several factors. First and foremost, are your snacks fitting within your daily calorie range? Some people use snacks to stave off their hunger, so that the...

How to Keep a Healthy Mindset at the Grocery Store

Have you ever gone to the grocery store with healthy intentions, only to realize later that you’ve brought home bags filled with borderline junk food? You are not alone. Many people don’t grocery shop...

Spring Clean Your Diet With Spring Produce

The calendar says that spring is officially here and for many of us, that means getting exciting about the season’s bounty. Spring produce includes some of the most unique and most nutritious fruits a...

Food and Drinks to Maximize Your Workout

Food and drink are essential to recovery after a good workout. And no matter what time of day you exercise, the key is to follow up with meals that combine protein, which helps your muscles recover an...

Best Low Calorie Drinks to be Drinking This St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick’s Day is one of the booziest holidays of the year, often serving as an excuse for people to indulge in high-calorie, sugar-packed cocktails at their favorite watering hole in the sake of c...

The Skinny on Fat - Explaining Good Fats vs. Bad Fats

Fats are beneficial to our health in many ways. Fats are nutrients in food that the body uses to build nerve tissue, including the brain and nerves, and hormones. Adequate fat intake is essential to g...

Healthy Valentine's Day Ideas for the Love of Your Life

Valentine's Day is around the corner, and if your significant other or loved ones are into health and wellness, you may want to start thinking about some creative and healthy gift ideas.The traditiona...

Best Apps for Healthy Living

With the amount of time we all spend with technology, and specifically our smart phones, we often associate them with hindering our exercise and healthy eating habits. But what if they could actually...

Valentine’s Day Gifts Worth Giving

I realize the calendar still says January, but Valentine’s Day will be here before we know it. There are dozens or more of so-called typical Valentine’s Day gifts I can think of…candy, perfume, dinner...

5 Non-Diet New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Healthier Living

Living healthier doesn’t always mean losing weight. Maintaining a healthy weight is extremely important for overall health, it certainly isn’t the end all be all of living healthy. There are many othe...

3 Healthy New Year’s Resolutions You Can Stick To

Most of us are guilty of making some quite ambitious New Year’s resolutions. Weeks later, however, we find ourselves not keeping up with our goals. Improving the diet is a common and terrific goal to...

6 Healthy & Easy Holiday Treat Swaps

The holiday season is upon us, AKA “cookie season”! A time of wonderful food, including cookies and snacks that aren’t exactly healthy. Weeks of consuming high sugar, refined cookies can leave you fee...

The Health Benefits of Eating Walnuts

Walnuts are in their peak season from late August to November, which is why they are readily available throughout the holidays and are often synonymous with them. Lucky for us, walnuts are one of the...

Healthy Thanksgiving Tips & Foods to Avoid

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and the word itself conjures up overeating! But, it doesn’t have to. With a little know how, the infamous Thanksgiving “food coma” doesn’t have to be induced a...

Clean Eating – What is it? And, is it good or bad for you?

Clean eating…what is it? There is no real definition of “clean eating,” but rather it is a common-sense approach to eating healthier. Here in America, we are accustomed to eating foods that are heavil...

Simple Ways to Plan, Stick to, and ENJOY a Healthy Diet

Unfortunately, too many people associate the word “diet” with “deprivation.” But it doesn’t have to be that way! Don’t let eating healthy be a daunting task. Prepare mentally and physically, enjoy wha...

The Dangers of Diet Pills

In America there seems to be a pill for just about every ailment. But an area that’s lacking effective medicine, is the area of obesity and weight loss. Despite best efforts by drug companies and surg...

1 in 3 U.S. Adults Beyond Overweight

While 1 in 3 U.S. adults and 1 in 6 children are obese, according to a new report out it says that the rate of increase could be stabilizing in some states.According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Co...