an apple a day

A couple weeks ago, my amazing Pilates teacher Kathleen Aharoni had just returned from a weekend of life-coach training, and she shared a bit of advice with our class. For about 98 percent of what you do every day, she said, you’re doing a fantastic job. But it’s that less-than-stellar two percent that we tend […]

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This is so cool!
A new service from diet.com allows users to send a text message to DIET1 and in return receive nutritional information about the chain restaurant menu item of their choice, according to this story from the Chicago Sun-Times.
The service is free on diet.com’s end, though you will have to cough up whatever your […]

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Check out this article from Career Builder via CNN.com about several jobs that whip workers into shape:

Painters
Landscapers
Childcare workers
Construction laborers
Messengers
Freight and stock material movers
Farm workers
Assemblers and fabricators
Bindery workers
Camera operators

They don’t pay much, though — maybe best to stick to your path toward the corner office with an exercise ball and morning yoga class. Well, a girl […]

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Just what we need — another story to make us totally freaked out about germs.
Check out this “as told to” story from Health magazine via CNN.com from a woman who has suffered from the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus superbug off and on since mid-2006. Seems that even very healthy people can be at risk:
Eventually, I saw […]

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Sorry for the brief hiatus, folks. I’ll be doing a few posts tonight to catch up, and will pre-date a few of them so as not to be so overwhelming.
Here’s an interesting story about the human papillomavirus vaccine being offered for males — not just to protect them from HPV, which can cause oral cancer […]

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Click below to hear an audio file of my interview with Matt Goulding, food and nutrition editor at Men’s Health magazine.
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Full transcript after the jump.

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Supposed immunity-boosting ingredients, once denoted almost exclusively on health food products such as juices and teas, are now being touted on many trendy restaurant menus, according to this article in the New York Times. Eateries such as the Beverly Hills Vietnamese restaurant Crustacean have special icons on their menus to indicate that certain items contain […]

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In honor of Valentine’s Day (is anyone else sick of hearing that?), a cute but helpful piece from CNN’s Empowered Patient about “finding Dr. Right.” (And yes, I’ll admit it — I clicked because I saw “Dr.” and thought it said “Mr.” I guess medical advice can’t solve all problems.)
Anyway, in the piece Elizabeth Cohen […]

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According to a new study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology by researchers at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, children in some neighborhoods are more likely to develop asthma than children in other neighborhoods — regardless of ethnicity, a factor previously believed to play a major role in asthma risk. (Read more here […]

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I just stumbled upon this article from Men’s Health via WebMD about super-healthy foods you’re not likely to pick up on your typical trip to the grocery store. They include beets, goji berries, swiss chard and dried prunes. Now I’m not about to eat beets (blech), but I love “stealth health foods” like these — […]

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