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Blog Post Archive
Fit to be Wed: Top Tips for Helping Brides Slimdown for Their Wedding Day
June is the most popular month for weddings. With it just around the corner, brides are looking to do whatever they can to get in perfect wedding shape. Wedding planner Shannon Boone sees a lot of variation in how her brides get fit for their weddings, with a few popular standouts. “Pilates and Yoga tend [...]
Medicare Program Cut for Scalability Despite Cost-Saving Efficacy
If it aint broke, don’t fix it. This is the homespun wisdom Ken Coburn is imparting to the Secretary of Health and Human Services after learning Medicare is cutting funds for his program, Health Quality Partners, seemingly, because they can. The program, based out of Doylesville, Pennsylvania, provides weekly nurse visits to Medicare patients who have [...]
Sippable Sangrias for Summer: Try These 3 Fresh Recipes!
Red wine was fine to keep us a little warm and cozy all winter, but now it’s time to chill out! Sangria is one of my favorite summertime indulgences, partly because it’s a healthier way to imbibe when I’m by the pool. No really, it’s true! While most cocktails are just booze and processed mixers, [...]
Sugar is Not the Problem in the Obesity Epidemic, Where you Eat is
Health experts are giving sugar a reprieve in the case against obesity. While sugar and its many processed variations are running amok in the food we eat at home or away, fats, oils, flour and cereal are more to blame for America’s continuous bloat. According to the CDC, 25.6% of Americans have a BMI greater [...]
5 Ways to Think Small About Your Weight Loss
By Team Best Life Bigger isn’t always better. In fact, when it comes to weight loss, it’s often the small changes that end up tallying up to greater rewards. No wonder the idea of small victories is one of the hallmarks of the Best Life plan. Here are a few ideas to get you thinking [...]
Moms Petition Similac to Remove GMOs in Infant Formula
“They say that moms with children with food allergies do more research than the CIA, and I think that’s true,” quips Leah Segedie at the opening of a three-minute video she’s using to get the attention of moms and and baby formula giant Similac. She wants the company to get rid of the GMOs they [...]
Shedding for the Wedding: Plan Ahead Months, Not Weeks, for Healthy Results
Last week on Live Big With Ali Vincent, we met Dominique who is getting ready for a day she’s dreamt of for years…her wedding day. Of course Dominique wants to feel amazing walking down the aisle. She also wants to jump start her new life as husband and wife in a healthy way. Have you [...]
Current Food Trends Include Fresh, Fast and Dining Alone
There are major changes coming to the food industry, or at least for those companies that want to stay economically viable. That’s because, according to various studies on consumer trends, there are significant lifestyle changes that are impacting the way we eat. Dr. Elizabeth Sloan, contributing editor and consumer trends columnist for Food Technology Magazine, [...]
Sriracha Oven Fries: The Way to a Hot Sauce Fan’s Spicy Heart
Sriracha lovers are a special breed. The hot pepper sauce is the equivalent of Asian ketchup – die-hard fans, like my friend Kenton, will put it on almost anything. And the more the better. So when Lay’s announced the finalists for its Do Us a Flavor contest this spring, and Sriracha was one of the [...]
Food Blogger Spotlight: Kelsey Brown of Happyolks
If you haven’t visited Kelsey Brown’s blog Happyolks where “recipes and stories for happy folks” are born, you’re missing out. Kelsey and her husband treat Happyolks as a collaborative project, where he takes the photographs and she develops the recipes and shares some of the most beautiful stories you’ll read. Trust me, I read a [...]
Colleen Fields Lost 124 Pounds by Food Journaling and Taking Control of Her Life
When most people start a diet, they focus on the numbers that appear on the scale, but Colleen Fields had a different sort of goal in mind, her dress size. In January 2010, Colleen weighed 304 pounds and wore a size 26 W. Her goal was to shed enough weight so that she could wear [...]
Empty Calories Comic: Chew Through Your Weight Loss
See more Empty Calories right here in the blog. Read more from DietsInReview.com: 40 Chews – the Magic Number for Weight Loss 15 Worst Pieces of Diet Advice We Feed Our Kids Health Benefits of Chewing Gum
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Childhood Obesity Epidemic Treated at New Clinic
Childhood obesity is an epidemic. It is being seen in kids and adolescents three times as often as it was in the 1970s. Primary care physicians are reporting seeing more children who are obese than ever before. According to Dr. Garry Sigman, director of Loyola University Health System’s Pediatric Weight Management Program, the cause of [...]
Zoe Saldana Weighs 115 Pounds – Who Cares!
Don’t look now but people are making something out of nothing, again. We condemn celebrities for being too heavy, for being too thin, and it seems now those who are just at what is a healthy, normal weight for themselves. When will it stop? Zoe Saldana’s donning the cover of Allure magazine this month and [...]
The Great Gatsby Recipe Guide: 10 Party Foods Inspired by the Roaring Twenties
The roaring twenties will no doubt be a theme of many a summer party this year as The Great Gatsby film release has everyone reconnecting with this classic novel that embodies one of the most fabulous periods in our history. When most people think of the 1920s in the U.S. they think of the flappers, [...]
Boycotting Monsanto? You’ve Got the Buycott App for That
Are you one of the millions of Americans hell bent on putting this monster of a company, and its peers, in their place? There’s now an app for that. In fact, Buycott, which launched this week to much consumer excitement, will help you boycott products from brands you’ve no interest in supporting. So many consumers [...]
Skinny Fiber Pills are Not a Miracle Solution for Weight Loss
Losing weight may be as simple as taking a dietary supplement according to Skinny Body Care. Their product, Skinny Fiber Pills, are advertised as an all-natural weight loss solution. Dieters are told to take two of the pills 30 minutes before lunch and dinner with a glass of water. Once the pills are taken, the water-soluble fiber they [...]
7-Minute Workouts: High Intensity Interval Training Now Backed by Science
Exercise scientists have found that a seven minute, high intensity workout yields the same cardiovascular and muscular results as an extended fitness session, like running for a couple of hours. The exercise program incorporates 12 different workouts, executed in quick succession with less than 30 seconds of rest between bouts, and works to maximize metabolic [...]
EmPOWERed Kids Run to Take Place One Month After Boston Marathon Tragedy
When my young son came home from school on April 15, I had to share with him the sad news about the Boston Marathon bombings. I was gentle and only gave the information a nine-year-old needed to hear. I had the TV on and he walked into the room and saw the cleared scene of [...]