At some point it hits you.
Usually in your 30s. Sometimes not until your 40s.
You start to feel your age. [Read more…] about Live Longer and Feel Younger with Stacey Chillemi (Video)
How to Eat Right
Diet & Nutrition
Why You Should Eat More Chocolate
Ever heard that old saying, “A chocolate a day keeps the doctor away”?
No?
Well, you’re about to.
Chocolate is the ULTIMATE health food. [Read more…] about Why You Should Eat More Chocolate
Yes, You Can Lose Weight by Going to Sleep Earlier
How much do you eat after dinner?
After the plates are cleared and the dishwasher started, do you sit down with a nice glass of water or cup of peppermint tea to watch TV…
Or do you fix yourself a little snack? [Read more…] about Yes, You Can Lose Weight by Going to Sleep Earlier
Your Skin on Sugar
If you want better skin, you’ve got to up your skincare game.
Splash out a bit more on a primer. Make sure you’re using a night cream. Exfoliate.
That’s what we’ve all been told. Glowing skin comes from better products. But what if we’re wasting our money? [Read more…] about Your Skin on Sugar
How to Love and Accept Your Body the Way It Is
I spent probably 20 years of my life wishing I was thinner.
No matter how much weight I lost, I still never thought my body looked right. I always wanted to change it or fix it, so that I would look different than how I was. [Read more…] about How to Love and Accept Your Body the Way It Is
Ditch the Diets & Find Peace with the Scales
Whether you make New Year’s resolutions or not, one goal is at the forefront of everyone’s mind in the New Year:
Weight loss.
We get seriously seduced by diets. We hope that THIS will be the year we finally fix our food/weight/body issues. [Read more…] about Ditch the Diets & Find Peace with the Scales
Ditch the Diet with Jenn Hand (Video)
Have you been on a diet since … well, forever?
Jenn Hand isn’t going to help you lose those last 5 lbs. She’s going show you what life after dieting looks like.
Like so many women, Jenn struggled with her weight. [Read more…] about Ditch the Diet with Jenn Hand (Video)
5 Superfoods That Will Knock That Multivitamin Off Your Shelf
As a teen who hated my weight, I was more into low-calorie food than healthy food.
Unfortunately, they were usually one and the same.
So I ate healthy to lose weight, but that was the ONLY reason. [Read more…] about 5 Superfoods That Will Knock That Multivitamin Off Your Shelf
Eating for Happiness: How Food Affects Your Mood
A few years back, a friend gave me a book as a gift.
It was about the psychology of food cravings.
We think we crave certain foods because they taste good, but what we’re really after is how they make us feel. [Read more…] about Eating for Happiness: How Food Affects Your Mood
6 Frankenstein Foods You’re Probably Eating Right Now
You’re walking through the grocery store.
On either side of the aisle, shelves are lined with food.
Some are foods human beings have been eating for hundreds of years—beans, flour, pasta, dried fruit—but most haven’t been around for much longer than you have. [Read more…] about 6 Frankenstein Foods You’re Probably Eating Right Now
The Trick to a Healthy Milkshake Your Diet (and Kids) Will Love
My milkshake story starts in an unlikely place:
The Andes mountains of South America, where once a month the banana man came to visit.
He drove up to my village in his battered pickup truck, the bed laden with branches of bananas straight from the tropical coast. [Read more…] about The Trick to a Healthy Milkshake Your Diet (and Kids) Will Love
Why Counting Calories Could Shorten Your Life
Who doesn’t count calories?
Calorie-counting apps are big business, along with activity trackers like Fitbit.
Track how much you’re taking in versus how much you’re burning, and you’ve got an easy equation for weight loss. [Read more…] about Why Counting Calories Could Shorten Your Life
The Freakishly Miraculous Powers of Fruit
When it’s summer, I eat fruit.
It’s my mission. Got to get in as much as I can before the weather turns and the growing season ends.
I’d love to say I stroll through farmers markets, picking up wicker baskets of freshly-picked peaches… [Read more…] about The Freakishly Miraculous Powers of Fruit
What Vitamin Labels Don’t Tell You
Popping handfuls of supplements has never been my thing.
Surely a good multivitamin is enough, I thought.
It’s only been in the past few years that I’ve started to question that thinking. [Read more…] about What Vitamin Labels Don’t Tell You
What You Don’t Know about Your Keurig Could Be Making You Sick
We gotta talk about coffee.
I know you love your Keurig. Just pop in a K-Cup, and voila! Just like a barista made it for you.
Because otherwise you’ll be waiting endlessly in your car, waiting your turn at the coffee drive-thru of goodness [Read more…] about What You Don’t Know about Your Keurig Could Be Making You Sick
