How to Reduce Cholesterol Without Medication Did you know REAL food can be one of the best cholesterol-lowering medicines? Whether you have been told by your doctor "It's time to get your cholesterol down" or you just want [...]
What’s Homocysteine and Why Should I Care? Just when you learned to say "cholesterol," now it's time to learn the new word "homocysteine." (Try it on your tongue: home-o-sis-teen). Just like cholesterol, it's a normal ingredient in your [...]
How Many Servings of Fruit & Vegetables Do You Eat, Really? Be Honest. Do you grab a bagel, muffin or granola bar for breakfast without ever considering fruit? Do you have a sandwich for lunch with chips or [...]
A Surprisingly Simple Way to Stay Motivated If there was ever a two-word objective that people desperately want (after “winning lotto”), it’s the secret to “staying motivated.” Sure, we start off the year [...]
Party Survival Tips Family get-togethers, neighborhood parties, work celebrations: eat, drink, eat, drink, eat, eat, eat. It seems that all parties revolve around FOOD! And typically, party fare isn’t necessarily healthy fare. But [...]
Eating Right When the Budget is Tight When the budget is tight, it certainly makes the job of eating healthy even more challenging than it already is! Why is it that everything that’s [...]
Tips for "Trick or Treat" Survival When Halloween arrives in your neighborhood, here are a few tips to help adults and kids alike enjoy the fun while surviving the onslaught of sweet temptations delivered by the [...]
Fire-Up Your Kids’ Immune System for Back-To-School Health! Every year when my son started back to school, I would think back on the previous year and how so many of his classmates suffered multiple colds and bouts with [...]
Eat Kale: Be Happy Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve been hearing about kale. It's the super-powered, cancer fighting, waist-whittling, brain-enhancing leafy green that is super easy to grow (even my husband’s garden has 17 [...]
Power Up Your Immune System with Probiotics! What are probiotics? Probiotics are live microbes, referred to as “good germs” or “beneficial bacteria,” that when eaten in sufficient quantities, provide a health benefit. How? By helping balance bad [...]
FiberTastic... FiberLicious... FiberHealthy If you've ever read any of my books, watched my TV show or heard me speak, you know that I live by my mantra of the "Power of One Good Habit." In fact, one specific [...]
Cereal Smarts Breakfast can be your best meal of the day. That is, if you aren’t duped into eating a bowl of dessert for breakfast! How can we QUICKLY find the best choices in this ever-expanding aisle of [...]
