Becoming A Healthy Eater

This week has been an up and down kind of week. You may remember that I workout at 7 AM every weekday morning, and that I don't do well when my schedule is thrown off. Well this was my week to drive the carpool for my kids and a couple of other neighborhood kids to school, which starts at 7:20. This meant that I couldn't exercise at 7:00. By the time I get back, my little ones are starting to rise so there's no time to workout until late afternoon, NOT my best time of day. Nonetheless, I did man >> full story

A few drinks is what’s missing from a healthy you!

At least according to a 20 year study of 12,000 people. The Denmark study, as published in Time Magazine, found that exercise and drinking alcohol each independently benefited the heart but even more so when practiced together. Here’s an excerpt: “If you don’t want to exercise too much,” asks Dr. Morten Gronbaek, epidemiologist with Denmark’s National Institute of Public Health, “can you trade it for one to two drinks per day and be fine?” A study Gronbaek and colleagues just published in the >> full story

Becoming A Healthy Eater

Becoming A Healthy Eater Being a healthy eater requires you to become both educated and smart about what healthy eating actually is. Being food smart isn't about learning to calculate grams or fat, or is it about studying labels and counting calories. Healthy eating is all about balanced and moderate eating, consisting of healthy meals at least three times per day. Healthy eaters eat many different types of foods, not limiting themselves to one specific food type or food group. Eating heal >> full story



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