As a teenager one of my favorite pre-game meals was a low-fat chocolate shake from McDonald’s coupled with Little Caesar’s breadsticks. Sure, I did plenty of things wrong back then but there is one thing I did very right – I drank tea thanks to my parent’s influence. A hot cup (or several) of black …
I often meet people who want to cut the carbs out of their diet to lose say, 10 lbs in two weeks. Then within a few days they find themselves tired, cranky and stuffing Twinkies down their throat as fast as humanly possible. Is it the carbs that are impeding your weight loss? Or is …
So today I hopped on this site: http://www.helium.com/items/459838-has-the-widespread-use-of-sunscreen-contributed-to-vitamin-d-deficiency-in And I started wondering if I could just toss around the word “medical” and write about anything and people would believe me. Now, I’ve seen surgeons who back skin care products and dermatologists advertising dietary supplements (most get the equivalent of 1 semester of nutrition in their …
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Even I’ve seen the ads for acai lately and sometimes I don’t even know what the latest movie craze is (okay, make that often but my friends fill me in). So what is Acai and can it help you lose weight and do all the miraculous things the ads indicate? Acai (pronounced “ah-sa-ee”) is a …
Today I was working on an article for FitnessRx for Women that in part, involved arterial calcification. Months ago my dad told me he couldn’t take too much calcium because of calcification. I was a bit stumped. Why hadn’t I thought of that potential relationship before? Leave it to him, a man that reads more …
Last week my SIL (that’s an acronym for sister-in-law) sent me an article about food coloring coming from bugs. Sure, I knew it was reality (and FDA approved) but its one of those things I can’t think about too much or I’ll start turning over the label of everything I consume checking code words for …