If the food ingredients has more than 6 listed don't eat it --Michael Pollann, "Food Rules"

From the monthly archives:

August 2009

How to calculate your calorie expenditure using resting basal metabolic rate?

August 9, 2009 Diet & Nutrition
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According to Dr. Berning, Associate Professor of  Nutrition at the University of Colorado, to estimate how many calories you are burning  the simple step-by-step formula below for women uses Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) as a basis for the calculation.
What is metabolism?
Metabolism is the biochemical process of combining nutrients with oxygen to [...]

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What is Wellness, Health & Fitness Coaching

August 9, 2009 Featured
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I am convinced that more and more people in our generation (20 – 50) and generations past (60 +) could benefit from some type of coaching either: life coaching or wellness coaching…
Wellness coaching model is based on the transtheoretical model (TTM) — currently, the most popular stage model in health psychology (Horwath, 1999) — has [...]

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Life support: Getting the help you need to stay healthy

August 9, 2009 Featured
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You keep promising yourself that you will get healthy for good. But when you are on your own, you’re more likely to lose your energy, your motivation and your ability to remember why donuts and ice cream were so bad in the first place. If you need a way to keep yourself on track find [...]

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Egg superfood breakfast fat fighter

August 8, 2009 Diet & Nutrition
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Spice up your breakfast with the superfood eggs
One-third of a cup of chopped onion and one clove of garlic will add 1 g of fiber to scrambled eggs. Or fold the eggs omelette-style over 1/2 cup of cooked broccoli for an additional 2 g.
Drop a whole orange into the blender to flavor your morning smoothie. [...]

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Stroke – the leading cause of disability in adults

August 8, 2009 Health & Fitness

Stroke is the leading cause of disability in adults and the third leading caouse of death for Americas today. When it comes to stroke, time lost is brain lost. Stroke afflicts someone in the US every 40-seconds which is why knowing the signs and risk level are so critical to [your] survival.
Stroke Warning Sings
Here are [...]

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wellness coaching

August 8, 2009 Health & Fitness Coaching

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