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Dr. Susan Mitchell is an advocate of nutrition education and believes in integrating nutrition and exercise into busy lifestyles to achieve better health, increased energy and creativity. As a self-proclaimed chocoholic, she believes that realistic amounts of almost any food can be part of a healthy diet, too. She also has a fantastic blog where [...]
Since last spring, I’ve read several diet and health books such as: Jillian Michaels' Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body! Anticancer: A New Way of Life The Skinny: On Losing Weight Without Being Hungry-The Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss Success (read my review [...]
As you may know, I do the occasional recipe roundup for the FoodieView Blog. (My last one was Recipe Roundup: A Berry Wonderful Summer.) Then they turned the heat up a notch in my virtual kitchen and asked me to contribute to the FoodieView Meal Plan of The Week. My first weekly meal plan attempt [...]
Occasionally, I get fan email at This Mama Cooks! On a Diet. Sure, it makes my day to receive a compliment, but even better it gives me a chance to get to know some of my readers better. When today’s guest poster, Tracey, told me she had maintained a 60 pound weight loss over the [...]
The kids are on Spring Break, so I’ve invited Zane, the owner of Best Diet Pills, a website that focuses on providing consumers with no nonsense diet and diet pill reviews, to do a guest post to help out during this busy week. The Satisfying Power of Protein and Fiber Rich Foods Dietary experts assert [...]
I don’t have to tell you that the rise in obesity means that more people are becoming diabetic earlier in life. But did you know that diabetic books, cookbooks and websites are a great source of healthy recipes for anyone trying to lose weight? Diabetic recipes always contain nutritional information and are usually low in [...]
To help avoid an overload on calories, Weight Watchers recommends the following March Madness Maneuvers: 1. Pre-Game Meal: Eat something small before heading out, such as a salad or a bowl of soup. With a fuller stomach, there will be less temptation to overeat during the game. 2. Benefit from Bad Parking and Nose Bleed [...]
Whether scoring a seat at the big game or cheering your favorite team at home, chances are March Madness celebrations will be teamed with the March Munchies. (Mostly I just hide upstairs away from the snacking hordes at my house. Luckily, I’m not much of a basketball fan and would rather read a book in [...]
Planning an Oscar Party this weekend? Here are some timely tips from the folks at Weight Watchers. Pre-Party Party like you’re a celebrity by dividing your get-together into two parts. You can have the pre-show in one area of your home where you can “dish” on your favorite actors and your favorite fare. Once the [...]
Not only does Phyllis Pellman Good’s new cookbook, Fix-It And Enjoy-It Healthy Cookbook: 400 Great Stove-top and Oven Recipes, feature recipes, it also has some sage advice. Here’s an excerpt: Tips for Healthier Eating for Stuck-in-Their-Ways Adults Are you stuck in a food rut and having a hard time changing to healthier eating habits? If [...]
I was intrigued by the new Weight Watchers Momentum Plan especially after I had LaaLoosh guest post about it. Then I received a coupon in the mail inviting me to start going to meetings again as a Lifetime Weight Watchers member. Hmmmm, I thought, maybe I should go to a meeting and check it out. [...]
I’m honored to have Jennette Fulda of the Pasta Queen doing today’s guest post. Jennette was my roommate at BlogHer 2008 – she’s a terrific person to room with since she goes to bed early like me. (We may look like fabulously hip bloggers, but inside we’re rather tired, achy ladies. Sigh.) We were both at [...]
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of Healthiest Meals on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What Meals to Eat and Why, has a marvelous idea to combat overindulging during the holidays – visualization. Here are his seven tips on how to use visualization to help you with holiday eating: 1. Close your eyes and really [...]
Staying Healthy on a Budget Here’s some great tips on saving money while getting healthy: Brandi shares with us a great article on 10 Ways to Diet on a Budget. Susan helps the parents among us learn how to talk to our kids about a tight budget. Jacqueline offers us the Secrets of Budgeting for [...]
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