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Snacking: Good Holiday Habits Anyone Can Do

Carissa Anderson Elite Nutrition Intern We are right in the “thick” of the holiday season. Sweets have been looming in the office since Thanksgiving. Holiday parties are filling your weekends, and who has time to cook when there’s shopping to be done? Have you been feeling guilty aboout over-indulging in Christmas cookies, or maybe denying yourself treats [...]

100-Calorie Snack Packs

Carissa Anderson Elite Nutrition Intern We are a nation constantly on the go, always looking to make life more convenient. Although it may sound like a genius idea to buy prepackaged snack foods, it really depends on your motive. If eating 100-calorie snack packs is your way of satisfying cravings or flailing off hunger, it [...]

Drink to Happy (and Healthy) Holidays

Guest Blog by Theresa Camardo With the holiday season comes the food, the celebrations, and all the magazine articles telling you that all the parties and festivities are going to mean some belt-loosening come January. One of the culprits for all the extra calories and Santa-style-bellies around this time of year is the abundance of [...]

90 Minutes of Activity a Day… Did I get that right?

By: Carol Shuford, certified personal trainer and Ironman athlete Yep, that’s right- new guidelines (2007) from the American College of Sports Medicine ( ACSM) recommend 60-90 minutes a day of activity for all adults under 65 who wish to stay fit, healthy, and stave off unwanted weight gain. And who wouldn’t want all that? However, [...]

Healthy Mind, Body, and Planet: Becoming a Local Foodie

By: Laura Hunter, Guest Blogger One of the largest and most difficult steps I have made in my attempts at a more mindful approach to eating is working towards giving up the time consuming and elaborate planning that coincide with a diet mentality. An alternative approach that I have found to be very helpful in [...]

Avoiding the Thanksgiving Freak-Out

By: Laura Hunter, Guest Blogger 3,000. It seems like a rather arbitrary and insignificant number to you, right? It could be the dollar amount of your last pay-check, or the aggregate of funds you just blew on your last week in Europe …or something completely random like the amount of  magazines dating back to the [...]

Healthy Salads Done Right

Carissa Anderson, Elite Nutrition Intern Ever since restaurants started including nutritional information in their menus I have been appalled by the calorie-packed salads.  I discovered that at least 3 of my favorite restaurants contain salads with no less than 800 calories.  I have always thought salads to be the one “safe food” we conscious eaters could [...]

Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Carissa Anderson Elite Nutrition Intern Most of us have heard how fish is so good for us because of their omega-3 fatty acids, but I haven’t been able to find anyone who can tell me why.  As it turns out the health benefits of omega-3′s are phenomenal. They have the ability to reduce pain and inflammation, [...]

Beware of Contaminated Dietary Supplements

Carissa Anderson, Elite Nutrition Intern According to a recent survey more than half of the American population takes supplements of some sort.  Because there have been alarming reports of unsafe or ‘contaminated’ dietary supplements, I think it is important to shed some light on the topic.  Many supplements slip through the cracks and are not [...]