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My father gets a faraway look in his eyes when he remembers his Minnesota Czech grandmother’s poppy seed pastries. Called “kolache” (koh-LAH-chee), “kolacky” (koh-LAH-kee), or how my dad pronounces it, koh-LAH-chkey, these Czechoslovakian yeast-based pastries can be filled with any sweet pie or pastry filling. Dad loves poppy seed filling, and armed […]

My pedometer broke. I don’t mean it needs a new battery, I mean it broke. It fell off my belt the other day and I drove over it with my car. I couldn’t believe it when I saw all the crunchy little pieces all over the garage floor. It’s been just four days since […]

It’s one thing to tell people to plan their workout and their exercise programs. It’s another thing to know how to do it.

A recent postcard on art blog PostSecret says: “My biggest fear is that if I have a daughter, she will inherit my eating disorder” (via Starling).
I will make no bones about this. Raising a child to maintain a healthy body weight AND a healthy attitude towards their body and towards food is tough.
It […]

New research appearing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that strength training can reduce body fat, and attenuate abdominal fat gain.
The research applies to overweight or obese premenopausal women and was conducted over two years.
So what kind of exercise were these women doing?
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Wrigley is doing its level best to convince us that Gum is Good.
Can you really lose weight just from chewing gum?
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Buffets and other social functions can be trying when you want to eat healthy. It pays to have a strategy planned well in advance.
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SharpBrains has interviewed Judith Beck, author of The Beck Diet Solution. Beck brings the principles from cognitive behavior therapy into the field of weight loss.
The Beck Diet Solution is designed to be used alongside any healthy and nutritious diet.
What are the cognitive and emotional skills and habits that dieters need to train?
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If you are having a chocolate craving after your pizza, then Domino’s Pizza now has the answer.
It is called the Oreo Dessert Pizza.
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The Eat-Clean Diet, by Tosca Reno, is physically beautifulâ?¦ every page seems to leap up at you with an explosion of glossy pictures, colorful sidebars and pull quotes.
The information is laid out in a very reader-friendly way and speaks in a basic language that most will easily comprehend. Beyond the bookâ??s exceptional […]