Good Fats, Bad Fats – The Lowdown on Fats! Fat is confusing! It used to be that fat was bad, period. Now, we hear about good fats and bad fats, and it can be confusing. Is there a good way to BE fat or just good ways to EAT fat? Can somebody explain this,...
Putting Your Child’s Health First Who doesn’t love those chubby little rolls on a baby’s legs? Parents and grandparents kiss them and gently squeeze them, saying how cute they are and how healthy the baby is. And, they are right. At what point, however, in a child’s...
It’s Not Too Late to Begin Exercising for Heart Health There is no doubt that obesity has devastating effects on heart health. This has long been proven. A study from 2002 in the New England Journal of Medicine sought to discover if there was a link between body mass...
The Connection Between Obesity and Kidney Disease We have a health crisis on our hands in the United States, one that promises to create a generation of children whose life expectancies are lower than those of their parents. According to the National Institutes of...
You’ve done the work. You lost the weight. So, why are you unhappy? Have you become obsessed with what the scale says? All too often, people reduce themselves to a number on the scale. They measure their self-worth by what numbers are displayed on the scale. Out of...
Holiday Party Survival This is the time of year when the chocolate flows like a river and the baked goods pile up faster than a New England snow storm. Every break room is filled to the brink with goodies and savory treats that are most certainly hard to pass up. It’s...
