An estimated 30 million people in the U.S.A. suffer from binge eating. According to to the National Eating Disorder Association "Eating disorders -- such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder – include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues. Eating disorders are serious emotional and physical problems that can have life-threatening
Read more
Category Archives: eating
She Helps Cancer Patients Savor Health Through Smart Nutrition
One of the toughest challenges for me when I was diagnosed with breast cancer was enjoying food. Here I was a well connected professional food and wine consultant with a welcome seat at all the great restaurants in New York City, and food no longer appealed to me. It wasn't that I stopped liking food.
Read more
Simple Steps You Can Take For A Planet Friendly Diet – February 15- Fearless Fabulous You!
Cat Smiley runs a successful weight loss retreat in Whistler, Canada. (Whistler Fitness Vacations) where women undergo a healthy boot camp for 1-12 weeks. But for anyone who can't make it to Canada, Cat has just released "The Planet Friendly Diet: Your 21 Day Guide to Sustainable Weight Loss and Optimal Health" (New Society Publishers).
I
Read more
How to Avoid Holiday Stress Eating
Holiday times are supposed to be happy times. Right? Well...Maybe.
For many the holidays are stressful. There's the pressure to "get it all done" before the end of the year. There are the office parties and the family gatherings where you have to be on your best behavior. There's the financial strain of overspending
Read more
Good and Cheap- Eating Well on $4 A Day with Leanne Brown
Can you eat on a $4 a day budget? I bet your $4 latte or juice you say you can't.
But $4 is the daily budget 46 million Americans must survive on to eat, based on the allocation of SNAP, the U.S. government's food stamps program. And millions more, including cash strapped working parents, fixed income retirees, students
Read more
Fearless Fabulous Women February 23
There's been several news stories recently about the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines. The bottom line: Nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population needs to eat more vegetables and we all eat too much sugar. A few foods that many of us were shying away from for health reasons received a cleaner bill of health:
Read more
Become Supermarket Savvy and Power Up Your Pantry- Fearless Fabulous You! Feb 9
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said, "Dis-Moi Ce Que Tu Manges, Je Te Dirai Ce Que Tu Es." (Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.") Sadly if most people living in the U.S. were defined literally by what they eat we'd have a lot of genetically modified, artificially produced
Read more