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Long Runs and Staying Healthy

Long Runs and Staying Healthy Heavy training (lots of weekly mileage or very long runs) and staying healthy can often become difficult for many athletes to achieve and nutrition is a lot like training. It’s always a good idea to have several tools in your toolbox to pull out and use, but it’s also important […]

Dear Parents, Let’s Feed Our Kids Right

  Dear Parents, Let’s get together and start making healthy breakfasts a priority for our kids. I can’t tell you the number of times I have looked out in my classroom and seen handfuls of students shoving Pop-Tarts down their faces for breakfast.  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, providing base fuel […]

Sassy you say?

Yesterday I received this email from a friend who had loaned out my book to a co-worker. All it takes is a little bit of knowledge and the willingness to take baby steps in the journey to achieving life long health and wellness. I think this lady is well on her way, plus I can’t […]

Sweet and Fatal

Haven Emerson of the Universtiy of Columbia, pointed out that a noticeable increase in deaths due to diabetes between 1900 and 1920 corresponded to the increase in the consumption of sugar. And in the sixties, nutritional expert John Yudkin carried out experiments on animals and people that demonstrated that large quantities of sugar in the […]

Stubborn Fat in the Middle

Let’s face it, women are just wired differently. Intermittent fasting and longer, intense exercise sessions that we do in order to burn calories and lose weight can be quite hard on us (of course, there is the factor of bio-individuality, so if you like doing those things then do what makes you happy).  Certain types […]