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Mindful eating involves paying full attention to the experience of eating and drinking, both inside and outside the body. We pay attention to the colors, smells, textures, flavors, temperatures, and even the sounds (crunch!) of our food. We pay attention to the experience of the body. Where in the body do we feel hunger? Where […]

No matter how calmly you start the day, stress at the office can send you into a tailspin. Stress often compels people to skip meals, overeat, and/or eat lots of sugary, fatty foods. Also, researchers are finding that chronic stress affects the hormones that make you more likely to gain weight around your middle and […]

Eating out can be a big challenge for people who arre trying to be healthy. It’s hard not to give in to temptation when you look at the menu and see all your favorite high-cal meals, or when you see your tablemates chowing down on crispy, cheesy appetizers and huge entrées. Adding insult to injury, […]

This month continue with your water, and now let’s add in another healthy behavior- including breakfast. Your mother, grandmother where all right, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Every night when you fall asleep your body goes into a mini state of starvation and we need to “wake” up that metabolism and […]

Like many health professionals, I know that the adverse effects of poor health and obesity-related disease can be reversed when people are willing to change their bad habits. I also know that structured diets make us feel deprived when we’re “on” them and guilty when we fall “off.” Traditional diets with their emphasis on calorie […]

It’s National Nutrition Month, so celebrate by incorporating more “super foods” into your diet. Super foods have mighty — and sometimes surprising — nutritional powers, and they’re tasty too. Here are five of my favorites: Nonfat yogurt: Yogurt is a great source of high-quality protein, and makes for a nutritious and quick breakfast and […]

As February closes to an end this weekend, I think about all the patients I have seen in the hospital. They have either come in to have surgery effectively or in great need to have surgery to live.I am lucky enough to be able to talk to them after and help plant the seed of […]

Check out this fun site that has great ideas for snacks from A to Z. I’m not so sure about X and Z personaly 😉