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Wellness

Exhausted? Easy ways to get energized

Without question, life is a whirl of a million little details that you do your best to keep in check. If you’re like most women,...

Dieting & Nutrition

Spice up – and save – your life

Spices add delicious flavors and tantalizing aromas to food, but many people don’t realize that spices also offer a variety of...

Losing Weight

3 Weight loss pitfalls and how to avoid them

When it comes to permanent weight loss, the thoughts you put into your mind are as important as the food you put into your mouth....

Dieting & Nutrition

How to recover from summer binges

Summer is tons of fun but too much playing around can show up on your hips, thighs, and tummy. With distractions like outdoor...

Losing Weight

Is low carb better than low calorie dieting?

Although women are on the eternal search to find a fast and easy diet, we often find that weight loss just doesn’t work that way....

Losing Weight

Ethnic approach to weight loss

It’s the regular battle of every summer: when it’s time to get into that bikini, it’s time for a crash diet. Unfortunately, a...

Losing Weight

Diet books for body, mind, and spirit

It seems that every week new diet books hit the stands, touting the wonders of some new program to shed weight. Typical diet plans...

Losing Weight

10 Food substitutions for a summer body

Whether you’ve let your summer fitness plan slide or you’re getting a late start on achieving a bikini-ready physique, we’ve got 10...

Dieting & Nutrition

Health foods that aren’t healthy

Think that granola-topped yogurt is a virtuous choice for your slim-down diet? It’s possible, but it may also be a fat- and...

Children's Health

5 Simple rules for raising healthy kids

Lack of activity, combined with unwise food choices, has led to a national childhood obesity epidemic, where nearly one third of...

Summer Recipes

Luscious low-fat summer desserts

Ah the sweet irony of summer, the skin-baring season commonly preceded by weeks of diets and workouts that, when the hot weather...

Low Carb Recipes

Low carb summer party recipes

Summertime cookouts are an ideal way to celebrate the hot weather and low carb living. Juicy meats, chicken and seafood grilled to...

Gluten Free Recipes

Gluten-free BBQ recipes

Summer is here and gluten-free families can rejoice in all the meaty offerings hot off the grill. Chicken, seafood and meats are...

Low Carb Recipes

Low carb summer drinks

Looking for a spirited way to cool off this summer while sticking to your low carb diet? With the average craft brew boasting 13...

Heart Health

Added sugar hurts your heart

Tooth decay, energy spikes and dips, weight gain – do you need another reason to cut back on the sugar in your diet? How about...

Women's Health

Jumpstart a healthy lifestyle

Every change we want to make starts smack dab between our ears -- with how we think about accomplishing our goals. Here are some...

Children's Diseases & Illnesses

Top 5 health-boosting nutrients for kids

Ensuring your children are getting all of the nutrients they need on a daily basis is hard work. It’s important to feed your family...

Wellness

Get back on the healthy-living track

Whether you’ve been thrown off because of your work schedule or because of a bad breakup, falling off the healthy-living train can...

Conditions

Hiatal hernia: The result of overeating?

If you believe there are no serious side effects to eating too much, too fast, we have news for you. The number of hiatal hernias...

Children's Health

Improve your kids’ relationship with food

When you’re running around juggling your schedule with your families, imparting healthy eating habits to your children can be...

Diet & Fitness

Eat this, not that: Healthy snacks you can grab on the go

Juggling kids, family and career doesn’t lend itself to sitting down to three square meals or taking time to make healthy snacks...