As we continue to celebrate National Nutrition Month by eating right with color, we’re highlighting the next color of the rainbow, green. Green fruits and vegetables have many vitamins and minerals that help our bodies’ grow and develop. Vitamins A, B6, C, E, and K are all…
As we celebrate National Nutrition Month, we’re continuing to highlight the colors of the rainbow. This week we’re focusing on eating delicious yellow and orange fruits and vegetables. Yellow and orange foods get their bright color from a substance called beta-carotene. Your body turns beta-carotene…
The theme of National Nutrition Month this year is Eat Right with Color. Each week this month, you can expect a blog entry that highlights the food “color” of the week. We’re kicking off the month with red, the first color of the rainbow. Although you’ll…
We’re bombarded every day by millions of messages about the “right” way our bodies should look. What we see is not always the truth. Most photos we come across in magazines have been retouched to make the person seem slimmer and more defined. Not only…
There’s a lot of buzz going around about energy drinks such as Red Bull, Monster, Rockstar, and 5 Hour Energy®. Energy drinks are marketed with many promises that range from boosting energy to increasing athletic performance or even weight loss. However, these so-called “miracle drinks”…
What’s in your coping bank? Eating disorders (ED) are extremely challenging and exhausting, both physically and emotionally. Many people who suffer from eating disorders use certain behaviors (such as limiting how much they eat, binging, purging, over-exercising) as a way to dealing with difficult emotions…
Hey guys, who cares how much you can bench press, anyway? Physical Education (P.E.) was a requirement in my high school. During my junior year I was a little upset that weight training was the only P.E. class that fit into my new schedule. Being…
I would be able to tell if I knew someone with an eating disorder, right? Maybe not. What do you think a person who has an eating disorder looks like? When I ask people this question, most people have an image of a thin teenage girl. She…
Today marks the start of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (February 20-26, 2011). This year’s theme “It’s Time to Talk about It”, emphasizes the need to talk about eating disorders. The hope is to increase awareness by talking about the seriousness of eating disorders, and…
It’s easy to make the assumption that a drink called “Vitamin Water” is healthy for you. You might also think that Vitamin Water is just that – water with vitamins. However, have you thought about what else might be in the drink? For example; the…