This season is such a challenging time because of all the extra holiday food that is around. For those with a sweet tooth, the leftover cakes and pies from thanksgiving can be a challenge, for others the Christmas cookies are the biggest temptation. While you may not be able to control your environment at work […]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Healthy Holidays: Top 5 Reasons Why NOW is the Best Time to Start a Nutrition Program
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and this is typically the time of year that people put their health and good nutrition on the backburner. Often, people go into the holiday season thinking that they will enjoy the holidays, indulge in the seasonal foods and then go on a diet in January to take off […]
Researchers Speculate Food Could Be as Addictive as Cocaine
This week there was an interesting article entitled “Fatty Foods as addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science” in Bloomburg Businessweek. The article sites research from several studies that have found that foods high in fat, sugar and high fructose corn syrup seem to have addictive properties, and they can elicit a response in […]
Halloween Candy Buy Back
It’s the day after Halloween, and many kids (and adults) are now coming down from their sugar high from last night. While enjoying some candy on Halloween is not going to make or break a healthy eating plan for children or adults, the problem is that there are now piles of candy laying around the […]