Calories Are Not Equal

Remember when the standard diet advice was a simple equation about calories in and calories out? In fact the equation was simplified down to eating less and exercising more. When I was writing my book, Is Your Lifestyle Killing You?, I received some “advice” that talking about food addiction and emotional eating was not part […]

Diet Soda Makes You Fat

Diet soda makes you fat? Really? I grew up on diet sodas and loved that it was calorie-free but no mention that it made us fat! A Ā study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found Diet sodas raised the risk of diabetes Ā more than sugar-sweetened sodas! Women who drank one 12-ounce diet soda […]

Food Day Aims to Fix Broken Food System

The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest is spearheading a Food Day as a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy,Ā affordable, and sustainable food. The American diet does more harm than it should to human health, the environment, to food and farm workers, and to animals raised for food.Ā  That’s why the second […]

Does Diet Soda make you Fat?

Think choosing no-calorie diet over the regular sugary soda is the smarter choice? Maybe not. A recent study found that diet sodas drinkers have larger waistlines than non-drinkers. The study compared diet soda drinkers to a group of non-diet drinkers (including both regular soda fans and people who didnā€™t drink any soda). While all participantsā€™ […]

The Weight of Grief

After a few weeks of traveling, getting onĀ  the scale was scary today. It was a dreaded moment because I could feel the difference in my body and felt the extra weight. I feel the weight of grief from going back home to Australia for my brother’s death and I am ready to RESET my […]

Lose Weight by Sleeping

40 Tips for Fat Loss

Ā Sleep is an essential aspect of healing and repairĀ and that healing takes seven to eight hours. The vital key to the link between good sleep and weight is understanding Ā hormones, especially the hormone cortisol. You have major sleep disturbance when your cortisol is high. Cortisol is your stress hormone. It gives you an overactive brain […]

Can Exercise Reduce Your Cancer Risk?

Most of us don’t like to exercise. I am an exception, but I realize that most people do not want to exercise. Maybe the statement below by Dr. Christine Horner, a board certified general Ā and plastic surgeon,Ā  will motivate many to see exercise can be used like a Drug that can have very specific beneficial […]

Most Common Sources of Added Sugar

According to the American Heart Association, these food groups contribute the highest percentage of total added-sugar to diets of Americans. (Added sugar is sugar added to food during the manufacturing process or at the table, not sugars that occur naturally in foods like fruit.) Regular soft drinks 33.0% Sugars and candy 16.1 Cakes, cookies, pies […]