Beets: A Spring Detox For Your Bod

If you’re looking for a nice ‘jumpstart’ towards beach season, give a thought to a nice bowl of roasted beets, or a simple beet salad, or some more creative uses for the colorful root veg.  Beets are like your personal springtime cleanup crew.  Jammed with antioxidants and nutrients to detox the liver along with a [...]

Getting Fit: Products That Make It Easier! (Video)

OK, we all know that getting in shape can often be a challenge. That’s why we made it our mission to find great products out there that will make the journey to fitness a little easier (and shorter!). Vanessa Alfano visited Better TV to talk about products that make getting Fit easier. EXERCISE PRODUCTS Training [...]

The French Diet: How To Eat Like A Parisian & Lose Weight

  We’ve definitely contemplated as to how Parisians eat what they do and look the way they do. My recent trip to Paris had me worried because I knew that I’d go nuts with the chocolate croissants, apple turnovers, cheese, and macaroons but I was pleasantly surprised with myself. Not a single pound gained! As [...]

Macrobiotic Diet: Should You Be On One?

Macrobiotics has been around for hundreds of years, but, you’ve probably only recently become aware of it. A “macrobiotic diet” is a term being used more and more lately. So what does it mean? And should we be on one? Our friends at Clean Plates break it all down! You may not be familiar with [...]

Mindful Eating: 5 Easy Steps To Start

This morning, my daughter and I practiced mindful eating. OK, well in reality I worked on getting my 15 month old to use her spoon and not shove bite after bite into her mouth like one of the guys in the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest, but the idea of eating more mindfully has indeed [...]

7 Vacation Slim Down Tips

Does your upcoming vacation have you worried about your waistline? You should be. The average person gains almost a pound a day while on vacation. But that doesn’t have to be you. Most of the time extra pounds sneak up on you when you least expect it, so decide right here and now that your [...]

Appetite Out Of Control? 10 Tips To Control It Now!

Do you crave sweets?  Is it difficult for you to control your hunger?  Have you ever felt you would be able to lose those last few pounds you gained last year if you could just get your appetite under control?  If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are not alone.  In fact, [...]

Why Weight? Diets Don’t Work

If you returned from the beautiful holiday weekend having a little regret about that second hamburger or third cocktail, and are contemplating starting a new diet, you may want to think again. Nutritionist Rachel Lerner tells us why diets don’t work! You can’t turn on the TV, drive down the road or go to a [...]

3 Steps To Transform Your Body (& Mind!)

Have you ever seen a really impressive “before” and “after” photo on a weight loss product?  Well, there’s something that the diet industry doesn’t want you to know. There is more involved than just the diet product, and it’s the same across the board.  Look into the eyes of any person in their “before” picture [...]

Workout, Get Fit & Lose Weight in just 15 minutes a day!

Are you one of those people who wish they could lose weight but feel overwhelmed by your current cumbersome daily life schedule? Family, careers, children, pets, and household chores tend to create a schedule whereby time to exercise may seem like it is not an option. Not anymore! There is no need to block off [...]

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