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Do One Great Thing For Yourself

By on January 5, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight

It starts with watching this video: 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?  DocMikeEvans If you are receiving this post via email you might have to view it online.  Click here.   Send to Kindle

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Want To Burn More Calories? Stand Up!

By on October 14, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

Stand up. If you can, do it as much as possible. According to Stand Up (more) & Eat (better), The Cooper Institute’s blog, you burn 33% more calories by standing instead of sitting. What are you waiting for?     Send to Kindle

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Need To Work Off Some Extra Calories?

By on July 5, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

According to Health Day TV there are some great outdoor ways to burn off a few of those extra calories you consumed – perhaps the ones left over from an indulgent 4th of July barbecue. For each hour of activity (caloric burn varies somewhat with your size and effort): Golf, walking with your clubs:  330 [...]

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Stand Up And Cheer

By on May 17, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

That’s Right!  Cheer for how much you will be helping your health by not sitting so much.  Check out these stats and graphics courtesy of Medical Billing and Coding.org. Via: Medical Billing And Coding Send to Kindle

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What Goes Around Comes Around!

By on April 8, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought

  I love dogs and I love my hometown, New York City. Who says all city residents are Type A and harried?  Maybe we could learn a thing or two from our four legged friends who appear to be well fed, content,  and happy. Pets can help to keep you healthy and certainly can be [...]

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Have You Noticed That Some Well-Known Chefs Are Shrinking?

By on March 18, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

In girth that is.  The chef’s weight loss is frequently motivated by a health scare – although sometimes just by vanity or wanting to be more mobile and agile in the kitchen — many star chefs have devised their own plans for losing weight. Fortunately, for them, they have knowledge and their skill in the [...]

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Snow Angels and Snowballs: Try These To Burn Off Snow Day Food

By on December 27, 2010 in Manage Your Weight

There is a heck of a lot of snow outside. I actually can’t open my kitchen door because of a gigantic snowdrift. Many hours after the snow has deposited a foot and a half of whiteness (without the drifts), the guy who plows my driveway hasn’t been here yet because his truck broke down. It also happens to be two days after Christmas. I served lunch to twenty people on Christmas Day. I have leftovers – lots of them – and most of them are not, by any stretch of the imagination, of the low calorie variety. Being stuck inside with many leftovers in the fridge and a post-holiday slump leads to almost continuous nibbling and noshing. What to do?

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