A
Healthy Start -- Clearing Up Nutrition Confusion
When New Year’s
resolutions involve major dietary overhauls, we urge a
closer look. Do you know what you really need to change
to eat
healthy? Do you know the best way to go about it?
The
Art & Science of Snacking
Most adult women are about as likely to run out of the office
after lunch for a quick game of hopscotch as they are to
purposefully schedule an afternoon snack to keep energy
from flagging throughout a long day. But snacking can be
critical to healthy eating and healthy weights.
Calming
Food Cravings: Carbohydrate Cravings
Advice to limit some carbohydrates may
make good sense for some of us. But the devil is in the
details. We need carbohydrates for good health. Clear up
the confusion with this insight into how to enjoy carbohydrates
to your good health.
Carbohydrates & Insulin
Resistance: Finding a Happy Medium
With worry about diabetes and just about all the popular
diet books telling us that carbs are the culprit in weight
struggles, you'd think cutting out carbohydrates is
the smartest thing to do. Read why it's not....
Curing
What Ails Us...Hope or Hype?
Wouldn't we all love to find a nutrient, herb or other substance
that will prevent or cure just about anything that ails
us?
Do
Low Carbohydrate Diets Lead to Weight Loss Success?
Want to break out of the dieting cycle? Before you try the
latest high protein-low carbohydrate diet, read some of
the reasons why this may not be the answer for you.
Eating
Well: the Best-Kept Secret for Healthy Weights
The best-selling book French Women Don't Get Fat
shares an important secret for healthy weights: French women
take pleasure in eating well while American women see it
as a conflict and obsess over it. Redefine your notion of
healthy eating.
Feeding
Our Daughters Well
What did you learn about healthy eating from your
mom? Is it something you want to pass on to your daughter
(or son)? Read more to find out how we can help make sure
our children don't struggle with weight as adults.
It's a worthwhile read for any woman who wants to
help the young children in her life.
The
Fats of Life
Could it be true? Can you really eat more fat and stay healthy
and fit?
Have
Your Pasta & Eat It, Too!
How can you eat and enjoy carbs foods and stay
healthy? In this article, we draw on the example of our
Italian friends to illustrate.
Healthy
Eating – Healthy Weight Loss: Pump Up the Pleasure
Consider this: If you enjoy eating healthfully, you'll likely
do it more often! What a concept. Read this FitBriefing for tips on making healthy eating something you look forward
to.
Healthy
Eating for Healthy Weight Loss:
It May Look Like a Diet but It's How You Think About It
Adding structure to our eating may seem like a diet at first,
but it's all in how you think about it. Read this FitBriefing
for tips on adding structure while keeping things flexible.
Healthy
Eating: Change Your Mind First
Do you believe you can't stop eating ice cream once
you start? Do the doughnuts your office mate brings in each
Friday morning mark the beginning of a day-long –
or weekend-long – binge? Do you feel like food is
your enemy? If so, forget about what you're eating and focus
on what you believe – getting over these types of
thoughts and attitudes about food is the first step towards
healthy eating.
Here
Come the Holidays
Say the word " holidays" and women with food
issues start to fidget.
Holiday
Eating: Party Hearty-Without Putting on Pounds!
Does holiday stress send you straight to the Christmas
cookies or Hanukkah chocolate? Do holiday parties -- and
all the great food -- raise your worry level even higher?
Try this sensible advice for having fun and staying fit
during the holidays.
Holiday
Eating Without Overeating: Eating the Best, Leaving the
Rest
The carbohydrate-anxious among
us might wonder what planet they can escape to in order
to avoid the holiday tradition of seeming non-stop, carbohydrate-rich
eating. Try these tips to truly enjoy the delights of this
wonderful season.
How
Much is Enough?
Knowing the standard portion size of a food might
help us prepare enough when cooking for the family, but
if we use portion sizing
to dictate how much we 'should' eat, we may be asking for
trouble.
Keeping
up with Calcium
Are you keeping up on calcium? The nation's leading nutrition
experts are worried you aren't. And that could mean problems
you don't even want to think about. But we've got ways to
make keeping up with calcium something you really want to
do.
Making
Sense of the Diet Wars
If the ongoing debate between high protein/high fat diets
vs. high carbohydrate diets has left you confused, join
the crowd. Even the experts sometimes find themselves wondering
as they read the latest headlines....
Mindful
Eating
This brief review of mindful eating can help women who have
already been to Green Mountain, as well as those who haven't
had a chance to visit us.
Mindful
Eating: Eating What We Want & Loving the Result
When is a hot fudge sundae a better choice than an apple?
When you're eating mindfully, you'll know. If you're not
sure, find the answer in this FitBriefing.
Net
Carbs, Low Carb: Learning the Language
Should you count 'net carbs?' This brief primer helps make
sense of all the food label language about carbohydrates.
Polycystic
Ovarian Syndrome (PCO or PCOS):
Definition, Diagnosis & Management
Do you
have irregular menstrual periods, sometimes missing cycles
and/or experiencing excessive bleeding, while also struggling
with excess abdominal fat? If so, you might be one of the
estimated 70% of women with irregular menstrual cycles who
have polycystic ovarian syndrome. Learn healthy lifestyle
tips on managing this problem.
The
Plate Model for Healthy Eating
Use this visual to help you balance your meals without having
to
worry about the numbers. Eating like this will make meeting
healthy eating guidelines much easier.
Redefining
Healthy Eating
What’s the problem with eating healthier? Many times,
it’s all in how we define it.
Staying
Mindful During the Holidays
Calm eating and weight worries and enjoy the holidays!
Stopping
Emotional Eating
Is emotional eating taking a toll on your efforts to improve
your health and fitness? Or is it your attitudes about emotional
eating that are causing the problem? Take this simple quiz
to gauge your emotional eating attitudes.
Stress,
Cortisol and Weight Gain: Is Stress Sabotaging Your Weight
& Health?
Do yourself a favor – break out of the mold! Even though
surveys show going on a diet tops the list of New Year’s
resolutions, before you once again join the ranks of dieters,
think about this: Frequent dieting causes stress...and that
may lead to even more pounds and create health risks all
by itself.
Test
Your Nutrition Knowledge
Do you have your facts straight when it comes to making
the best food choices? Test yourself with this quick quiz
that looks at some of the hot topics in eating well.
When
Non-Dieting Doesn't Seem to Work
Working hard to listen to your internal cues and eat only
when you're hungry? So why are you still struggling
to reach your healthy, natural weight? For clues, read this
FitBriefing.
