I found a website that helps with the "is-it-safe?" judgment process: www.StillTasty.com. It tells you how long your favorite foods and beverages—from alfalfa sprouts to squash; fresh, canned, or frozen; open or unopened—will stay safe and tasty.
Cleaning out my cupboards, I let my nutritionist persona take over: What really should be in there? Is what I have as healthy as it could be?
Getting the winter blues? With less daylight and colder temperatures, it’s easy to do. But fueling your body properly is always a step in the right direction, making you feel and look better.
Celebrating the holidays with friends and family should be joyous, but we wind up stressed out. So what should we all do? Here are my recommendations—which I’ll be trying to follow, too.
The big day is over, and the holiday season has officially begun. Here’s a set of tips to help get you get back on track and ready to handle the holiday festivities to come.
Hopefully, you’ve been able to put some of last week’s pre-Thanksgiving health and fitness tips into action. Now, here are some tips for making it through the big day.
Here’s a game plan for the week before Thanksgiving. In addition to helping to keep those pounds at bay, it will help alleviate some of the anxiety about it all.
Are you a meal skipper? Many patients, when they first come to me, admit to engaging in this behavior regularly. They believe that if they skip a meal, at the end of the day they will have consumed fewer calories and that will help them lose weight. Unfortunately that never seems to be the case — and now there’s confirmation.
When you stop fretting over the exact number of calories in the foods you eat, and focus instead on creating healthy, balanced meals and learning what reasonable portion sizes are, it’s likely the pounds will start to drop off. Better yet, your meals will leave you more satisfied.
Some simple planning can help you avoid the effects of dehydration.
The plans have been in the works for more than a year, with my stepson and his fiancee doing all the planning. But I have the hard part. What will I wear?
In a lot of situations it isn’t what my patients are eating but how much. Here's a handy chart.
Whenever I meet a new patient, one of the first questions I ask in regards to their eating habits is: “Do you snack?”