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The Best Resolution you can Make for your Health in 2019

If you are thinking of making some changes in 2019, here is best place to start: cook more at home. That's one simple resolution to help improve your diet and your health.

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4 Steps to Eating and Feeling Good this Holiday Season

The single biggest day of eating has come and gone so we can all breathe a sigh of relief, right? We indulged until we couldn’t handle another bite and then we fell asleep right on the floor. If I ...

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5 Ways to Healthify Your Chili This Fall

I’ve been waiting for this time of year for months. I love Fall: crisp mornings, changing leaves, but most of all, I love Fall foods! Several people in my inner circle have mentioned chili in ...

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Calorically Concise Carbs

With the amount of conflicting information (and misinformation) floating around, it can sometime seem overwhelming figuring out which foods are “bad” or “good”. Back in the 80s and 90s everyone ...

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Calorie Conscious Casseroles

With the temperatures plummeting and hibernation season beginning in Chicago, sitting on the couch with some piping hot comfort food sounds pretty enticing. Winter is the season for mashed potatoes ...

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Buddha Bowl: The Ideal Vegan One Bowl Dish

Eating healthy during this holiday season can be really hard. I’ve recently started adding more vegan/vegetarian meals into my daily routine. The recipes are easy and pretty quick to make for a ...

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Breakfast for Busy People

Breakfast seems to be the meal that most people have the hardest time making nutritionally balanced (if they eat it at all). Whether that's because people find fewer foods appetizing early in the ...

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A Day in the Life of a Trainer

It can be tough figuring out how to properly time your meals throughout the day so that your energy levels stay elevated and you can give it your best effort in the gym, but hopefully my previous ...

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Which Country has the World’s Healthiest Diet?

Have you heard of The Blue Zones? A few years ago, author Dan Buettner published a book of the same name where he researched 5 regions of the world where people not only lived longer than the ...

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Cookies for Breakfast

I have a really bad habit of mismanaging my time before heading off to work or some other engagement. I will get into a productive mode that is hard to detach from, which then means a rush to get out ...

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