health

This Salad Container is a Career Girl’s Best Friend

By, Nicole Crimaldi I started using my new salad container this week and I love it!  The concept of this type of container is great! There is an ice pack built into the top and you can put your dressing into the dispenser so you don’t have to bring a separate little container, eat a [...]

November 13, 2009 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Healthy Holidays and How To Have ‘Em

By, Michelle Pfeninnghaus It’s like a scene from a movie: Snow gently falling, family and friends gather joyfully to sing songs and exchange good wishes. There’s good food, good fun, and – Wait a minute. Let’s pull back the curtain here. Often behind every holiday gathering there’s someone totally stressed out trying to clean the [...]

October 22, 2009 0 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Weigh Less, Live More

By, Michele Pfenninghaus You’ve probably tried a few diets, right? Or maybe more than a few? Most weight loss techniques have merit but they never seem to really work. (Oh, maybe they work in the short term – we lose and gain back the same 10 pounds over and over again.)This is nonsense. How much [...]

July 29, 2009 0 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Cellulite is Here to Stay.

By, Ashley Crimaldi A few days ago I decided to deter my morning schedule and catch up on a little Oprah. Typically, I’m a non-believer in shows like Oprah. I tend to approach them with a highly cynical and skeptical attitude. These shows are just for bored housewives, right? Somehow this episode caught my attention. [...]

July 23, 2009 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Does Fat Make You Fat?

By, Michelle Pfennighaus Imagine it. You’re watching Friends on prime time and wearing Doc Martins, Snapple iced tea in hand. In front of you is a box of fat free Snackwell’s cookies. Ah, the 90′s.It made perfect sense. We were all going to get fat unless we stopped eating foods that contained fat! Perfect logic. [...]

July 7, 2009 0 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Eat Your Sunshine!

By, Michelle Pfennighaus, RYT Do you know what the #1 vegetable in the American diet is? Potatoes. That’s right. And how do we most often eat potatoes? As french fries. You got it. No wonder we as a country are overweight, sick and tired. Not to knock the potato, but there are lots of wonderful [...]

June 16, 2009 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

All Natural! Whole Grain! Buy Me, Please!

By, Michelle Pfennighaus No matter where you do your shopping, you’ve probably noticed all sorts of health related claims on food packaging. At a northeast supermarket chain called Stop & Shop they’ve even started an in-store program called Healthy Ideas to make shopping for your family, well…brainless. But I tend to think if it were [...]

June 9, 2009 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →