How to Have a Healthy Lunch at Work

We’re all a little cash strapped these days. If you haven’t already started brown bagging it, you just might when I tell you that you could save $200 or more per month just by bringing food from home for lunches at work. Not only do you want your food to be affordable, but you also [...]

D.C. 2nd Largest Cause of Preventable Death: Poor Eating and Physical Inactivity

Hot off the press. If you live in D.C. and want to know what to do to avoid death, here it is: stop smoking, eat healthier, and exercise. Tobacco and Poor Diet/Physical Inactivity are the top two preventable causes of death in Washington, D.C.  While I can’t help with the smoking cessation, I am all [...]

3 Simple Recipe Swaps for Heart Health

It’s officially heart health awareness month. This topic is important to me. This month it will be one year since my mom had her quadruple bypass surgery. But the good news is many of your heart disease risk can be lowered with your food choices. That’s right, people… four out of five of your heart [...]

Hot Nutrition Books in 2010 – Part 2

We all could use a little health help and a great way to get advice you can trust is by turning the pages of a great nutrition book. But how do you separate the great stuff from the absolute fluff? You read this post, of course. I have a few books to recommend that would [...]

Hot Nutrition Books in 2010

We all could use a little health help and a great way to get advice you can trust is by turning the pages of a great nutrition book. But how do you separate the great stuff from the absolute fluff? You read this post, of course. These books will help provide relief from celiac’s disease, [...]

Cut Out Carb Confusion

Did I trick you with the title? We’ve gotten so used to seeing “cut out carbs” in the last decade, you might think this post is about low-carb eating. Quite the contrary. People are often misled about carbohydrates and as a result don’t know where to place them in their eating plan, especially if they [...]

Five Foods That Will Save Your Heart

February is American Heart Month. It’s a time to bring awareness to heart disease and stroke, the number one killer in the United States, so you and the people you love don’t become a statistic. This month is particularly personal for me, as my mom has heart disease. She had quadruple bypass surgery one year [...]

Lose Weight, Gain a Healthy Heart

Did you know there are eight things you can do to prevent heart disease? Even better, they all support each other. You do one, and it helps you in doing another one. Check out the top eight behaviors that help prevent heart disease below. 1. Eat a healthy diet. Choosing healthful meal and snack options [...]

Eight Heart Disease Risks You Can Control

Did you know there are eight things you can do to prevent heart disease? Even better, they all support each other. You do one, and it helps you in doing another one. Check out the top eight behaviors that help prevent heart disease below. 1. Eat a healthy diet. Choosing healthful meal and snack options [...]

A Look Inside Let’s Move: Michelle Obama’s Campaign to Reverse Childhood Obesity

The Let’s Move campaign will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.  Let’s Move will engage every sector impacting the health of children to achieve the national goal, and will provide schools, families and communities simple tools to help kids [...]