How Do I Cook More at Home?
My patients often say to me, “I’d like to cook more, but it’s so hard! I just can’t find the time, and don’t know where to start! With the average meal out racking up over a thousand calories (this is…
Comprehensive Medical Weight Loss
Category Health And Wellness
How to Burn Calories – At Rest!
A recent study reported in September’s journal of the American College of Sports Medicine highlights the power of exercise. Many individuals get caught up on the reports that exercise machines, heart rate monitors and other gizmos calculate regarding the calories…
Is Your Desk Making You Sick? New Survey Finds Desktop Dining Poses Food Poisoning Risk
As someone who eats at my desk during the workweek (breakfast at home), and sometimes lunch at work, I found this article from the American Dietetic Association to be interesting. Take a look and let me know what you think!…
Keep it to 100 calories or less
Working with patients in meeting their weight goals I often get asked about adding healthy grains, fats, or a treat into their food plan. My general rule is keeping the portion to “100 calories or less.” So what is 100…
Best Weight – Book
Every once in a while a book comes along that really revolutionizes the way we think about diet, weight loss, nutrition, or life-long weight control. Many of these examples are on our reading list. Atkins introduced the thought of higher…
No Time for Exercise?
As the new school year begins and fall quickly approaches, I give thanks to the prospect of regular routines. (Wait, wasn’t it a few months ago that we were grateful for the less structured days of summer?) It is probably…
Are Nuts on my Diet?
Tree nuts can be part of a weight management plan with evidence pointing towards definite benefits in weight maintenance. PORTION CONTROL is essential. A fat “exchange”, equal to a pat of butter, with 45 to 50 calories consists of the…
Stress and Weight Gain by Lisa Ininns, RD
Extensive research has been done on the association between stress and weight gain and on the hormone cortisol, which may be released in response to stress and can cause abdominal weight gain. There is a link between chronic stress (such…
Revitalize your mind and body with these quick tricks to help you get more active by Dani Byrne, Ascent Wellness Fitness Coordinator
Increasing your activity level doesn’t have to mean hitting the gym for two hours everyday. It doesn’t have to mean working yourself into a puddle of sweat or bending yourself into a pretzel every morning. Being more active is simple,…
Clean out the Junk! Aimee Lazarus
As a mother with small children, I notice that my children ask for (and often demand) the foods that they see in the refrigerator or pantry. And if they don’t see it, well, they don’t ask for it, because in…
