Category Archives: health and nutrition

Eating healthy can seem almost impossible during the holiday season! We all tend to eat a bit more, and exercise a bit less at this time of year. But you can fix healthier meals that everyone will love, just by making a few simple substitutions.

This holiday season, instead of feeling bad about making and eating your favorite holiday dishes, how about taking those traditional recipes and modify them to start some new family traditions. With some simple substitutions, you can bump up the nutritional value while reducing fat, calories and sodium. And your guests will never know! In fact,… Read the rest

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I have to give it to Dr. Oz. On his show Monday; he featured someone who fundamentally disagreed with almost everything he believes about fitness, obesity and weight loss. I don’t know of too many TV personalities who would welcome someone to their show who didn’t share their opinions!

Dr. Glenn Gaesser is a physical fitness and obesity expert at ASU, so he should know what he’s talking about when it comes to weight loss. He has written 3 books, including Big Fat Lies, and he claims that there is really no epidemic of obesity in America today!… Read the rest

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Not even a Washington politician could make the argument (with a straight face) that pizza sauce is a vegetable! Yet, that’s exactly what they are saying.

The final version of a spending bill released Monday would unwind current school lunch standards proposed by the Agriculture department earlier this year. These standards were intended to make these lunches, served for free or reduced cost to students from lower income families, healthier. The new standards originally included limits on the use of potatoes and sodium as well as a requirement to help boost whole grains. They also would have no longer allowed… Read the rest

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Two recent studies have raised worries about the safety of vitamin supplements, plus a whole bunch of questions. Should anyone be taking them? Which ones are most risky? If you do take them, which ones should you take? How can you pick the safest ones?

Vitamins have long had what some people call a “health halo.” Many people think that they are good for everyone, no matter what they eat (or don’t eat). The industry calls them an “insurance policy against bad eating.”

But, vitamins are often added to the foods we eat. Who remembers that ad for a certain… Read the rest

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If you mention fresh tomatoes, reduced fat cheese or fresh herbs to young kids or teens, they are likely to roll their eyes and say “eeeeww.” But that doesn’t mean you should pacify them with a stop at the local fast food drive through either. But kids actually love healthy foods, if they are fixed the right way!

Eating healthier can be as simple as fixing a deli turkey sandwich instead of a picking up a fast food burger. Try fixing it on a roll with lettuce, tomato, pickles and olives, just like Subway does! You can enhance the… Read the rest

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