Have you ever been invited to a dinner and told to bring dessert?  Maybe this is a great time to experiment with foods while teaching your friends about healthy eating habits.  Try incorporating kumquats or pomegranate into your presentation.  Kumquat is both sweet and sour in taste and is high in vitamin C and fiber. [...]

Have you ever been invited to a dinner and told to bring dessert?  Maybe this is a great time to experiment with foods while teaching your friends about healthy eating habits.  Try incorporating kumquats or pomegranate into your presentation.  Kumquat is both sweet and sour in taste and is high in vitamin C and fiber. [...]

Recently at lunch, I read what was being advertised on the drink packaging and had to laugh.  Some of these juices, teas, soft drinks, and flavored water promised to improve memory, mood, relieve stress, increase energy, and fight fat.  How can a 300 calorie beverage fight fat?  I must have missed that research.  These drinks [...]

Put a stop to consuming excess calories after 8 p.m. by making sure you have a healthy dinner consisting of lean protein, veggies, and fruit.  Eating 19 extra calories at night will lead to two additional pounds of body fat per year.  Try a glass of water to curb your appetite.  Your desire for food [...]

Have you ever heard someone ask “Do you know any good exercises to get my lower back muscles stronger, bigger, and more ripped?”  Yet low back pain is prevalent in many adults.  Are we not training the muscles of the lower back because of vanity?  Incorporating exercises that train the back muscles may be more [...]

There may be a connection between stress and its effects on increased blood cholesterol and higher blood pressure.  Try these tips to help manage your stress: take a short trip for a change of scenery, find time to laugh with a humor break, organize yourself and manage your time, find ten minutes for yourself and [...]

Try these pranks for April fool’s… To start your day off with a smile, add green food coloring to scrambled eggs for the classic green eggs and ham.  For a laugh at lunch, use a corer to cut a small hole in the side of an apple.  Put a gummy worm in the hole and [...]

Looking for a way to burn an extra few calories a day?  How about a few ways to burn 100 or more without even thinking about it?  Set you alarm 15 minutes early and stop hitting the snooze three times.  Get up and go for a walk every morning before heading to work.  After two [...]

Recently one of my athletes asked “Does sleep really affect our recovery from training?”  Without question it does.  Good, uninterrupted sleep allows your body to recover from the stress of training as well as all the work your body has done throughout the day.  Getting 7-9 hours a night allows hormone levels to balance, muscles [...]

Take time to include something positive each day that makes you feel good.  Enjoy a good belly laugh with a friend, volunteer your time with children, and take care of your pet or even a plant.  I just got a dog and she puts a smile on my face even when taking her for a [...]