Tag: weight management

Deliciously Easy Breakfast Ideas

Deliciously Easy Breakfast Ideas Avocado Toast

Mix up your breakfast routine this New Year with simple, affordable and balanced recipes! Here are 5 breakfast recipes that are super easy making it easy to start off 2018 with your health and wellness in mind. Since breakfast is breaking the fast from your hopefully long and restful night of sleep, it’s an incredibly […]

Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail

Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail

Have you stopped making New Year’s Resolution because  you feel like “they always fail”? Or do you make one knowing deep down that you likely won’t accomplish it, or are you recycling the same resolution year after year? We enter the New Year with good intentions, but once we realize change takes sustained effort, we give up […]

Your Guide to Healthy Cooking Techniques

Your Guide to Healthy Cooking Techniques

A smart and simple way to prepare your food in a healthier way is to use basic cooking techniques such as baking, braising, grilling, roasting, broiling, poaching, sautéing, stir-frying and steaming.  Some of these terms might seem daunting, but they are all fairly simple to use once you learn more about the cooking method. Healthy […]

Halloween Candy Nutrition Breakdown

Halloween is festive and fun, but the ingredient lists of Halloween candy is actually scary! Trans fats, corn syrup, food coloring and artificial flavors galore. In addition to artificial and harmful ingredients, candy intake tends to put most people over the recommended daily limit for sugar. The American Heart Association recommends that women get no […]

18 Cholesterol Lowering Foods!

In honor of National Cholesterol Education Month my last blog post, Cholesterol: The Facts, was dedicated to cholesterol.  Now I want to talk about cholesterol lowering foods. The best way to improve your cholesterol levels and reduce your risk of heart disease is to change your diet and lifestyle. Eat a whole foods, plant-based diet and […]