Archive for March, 2012
Recipes for Healthy Living – NEW
Recipes for Healthy Living is a free nutrition resource from the American Diabetes Association, created to make eating healthy with diabetes easier. It is also a great resource for ANYONE who wants to eat healthier! Sign up below to get daily access to recipes, meal plans, tips, and other tools. No charge! Recipes for Healthy [...]
Take Shape For Life
Are you feeling overweight, tired, or simply unhealthy? Have you tried to lose weight and failed? You are not alone. Millions of Americans are caught in an obesigenic world that is plagued with fast food options around every corner, poor eating habits, a general lack of activity, high stress environments, insufficient sleep, and [...]
ChooseMyPlate.Gov Tip #2
Tip #2 – Add more vegetables to your day. Vegetables provide needed vitamins and minerals, are mostly low in calories and yes – they DO taste good! Your mother was right when she told you to eat your spinach. Check out ChooseMyPlate.gov, Tip #2 for 10 ways to add vegetables, easily, to your day and [...]
Choosemyplate.gov
I’m sure many of you remember the “Food Pyramid” - those dietary guidelines provided for us from the government. Well, in June 2011, the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion replaced the Food Pyramid with “MyPlate.” It is actually a far simpler concept to follow than the Pyramid was. MyPlate illustrates the five food groups [...]
Kids’ Summer Camps
Maybe it’s because the weather has been so unusually warm, but is it that time of year already? Time to figure out what the kids will do this summer! Check out the “Summer Camps” tab for all types of camps: art, specific sport, multi-sport, enrichment and more. If you know of one that is not [...]
Healthy Recipe – Basmati Rice and Chickpea Pilaf
The Hindi word “basmati” means fragrant, and refers to the nut-like flavor and aroma of this long grain rice. Cultivated in India and Pakistan for thousands of years, the grains of basmati rice stay firm and separate after cooking instead of getting sticky. Add fiber and nutrients to basmati rice by adding dried fruit and [...]
Slower Is Faster When It Comes To Losing Weight
By Stavros Mastrogiannis Before you think I am crazy, let me prove my point. I personally know quite a few people who have lost weight and then gained all the weight back at least twice in the past 2 to 3 years. Like most people when they decided they wanted to lose weight, they wanted [...]
What is Kettlebell?
Kettlebell? Is that what mom rings when it’s dinner-time? Is that what cows wear around their necks in the mountains of Switzerland? No! It is the latest in total body workouts. To find out more, I spoke to our local expert, Andreas Washeim, owner of KettlebellFitnessCT. The sport originated in Russia about 300 years ago [...]
