How to be Successful With a Change that’s Important This year I’ll: lose 20 pounds spend more time with my parents improve my communication skills not lose my temper be more patient lower my blood pressure exercise 3-5 times a week start yoga start a career I love stop smoking Sound familiar? We all have…
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My 3 Favorite Things About the Holidays
Family. Food. Tradition. In an Italian family those three things are our holy trinity. No gathering is complete without all of them. As I made a traditional Italian pastry, cujinites -no, we have no idea how they are really spelled, speculated as calcunetta- with my Dad, Mom, uncle, and hubby a couple weeks ago, this…
3 Easy Steps to Dairy-Free Truffles
Dairy-Free Truffles: an Easy, Yummy Treat I love chocolate. Maximum extreme love. Truffles fit into that category. To control the dairy and type of chocolate in my truffle? Total bonus. Easy to make? Score! How to Make Vegan, Dairy-Free Truffles
Holiday Cocktail Tips
Tis the Season to be Jolly But does jolly have to equal fat? Not if you know what to avoid, what to limit, and what to substitute. Holiday cocktails. So yummy. So tempting. So full of sugar and fat. It’s easy to fa-la-la-la-la yourself right up the scale and out of that heartbreaker dress or…
Why You Should Rethink the Kids’ Menu
Kids Are People, Too Wasn’t that a cheesy 80s phrase? The saying is true. Yet, when it comes to food, we treat kids like they deserve less than adults. Like somehow, their growing bodies require less nutrition, vitamins, and minerals. In other words, we accept the crap that’s on the kids menu. Why? Because it’s…
A Quick, Healthy Breakfast in Minutes
What’s high in protein, a good source of fat, and makes a healthy breakfast easy? Kefir (or Keifer). Never heard of it? It’s basically a fermented milk – cow, goat, sheep, even coconut (although technically a cultured milk when it’s not from an animal) – into a thin yogurt that has high amounts of probiotics….
How to Eat Healthy When You Travel
Been traveling again, so I just updated this post… I always get asked, how do you eat healthy when you travel? An often lofty goal that gets tossed to the side when goodies appear. Goodbye carrot sticks and hummus, hello pretzels and beer! Healthy Eating Travel Tips How depressed are you when your jeans get…
Do Climbing Obesity Rates Scare You?
What are the consequences of climbing obesity rates? According to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011, a report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), four years ago only one state with had climbing obesity rates over the 30% mark. Now 12? “Since 1995, obesity…
The Skinny on FOX’s Report on Sugars
Real Facts vs. Media Facts About Sugars My brother forwarded me a FOX News article that outlined facts on sugars. I cringed at the misleading, incomplete information presented by the media, a regular fact-producing funland. And we wonder why people are so confused about what to eat. Some Facts About Artificial Sweeteners Let’s clarify a…
Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips Are From Hell
Resisting Satan’s Tempting Foods They appear so innocent. On the shelf. Sitting there pretending to mind their own business – like they don’t see me as I walk by. I hear this voice, “You know you want me, Angela. I’m sooooo yummy.” In less than half a second they’re in the cart. How did they get…
