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The statistics are sobering and staggering. Over 95% of all Americans will become overweight or obese within the next two decades. By 2050, one out of every three Americans will have diabetes. This is the first generation of Americans expected to live shorter lives than their parents.How did this happen? That’s what Fed Up, a recent documentary narrated by Katie Couric, dares to ask. You can now stream...
12/14/2017 8:00:00 AM
Last October I took my son to the dentist. As I reached for my credit card to pay, I noticed a big bowl filled with small candy bars sitting next to the receptionist's desk. "Really!?" I asked. "This is a dentist." The receptionist seemed unphased.Fall definitely has a dark side, and no, I don't just mean shorter days. Halloween initiates the high-sugar impact season that begins in early October and...
10/6/2015 9:00:00 PM
Diabetes and pre-diabetes are at epidemic levels today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says Type 2 diabetes in America has tripled since the 1980s and one in three Americans will have diabetes by mid-century. Staggering statistics, huh?It’s not just adults who suffer. In less than a decade, the rate of pre-diabetes or diabetes in adolescents has increased from 9 percent to 23...
8/10/2015 7:00:00 AM
"Really, I spent $50 on coffee alone?" a client recently asked, clearly stunned.About 10 days before, she complained she couldn't afford healthy food, so I gave her an assignment. For just one week, I asked her to track how much she spent on designer coffees, bodega snacks, convenience foods, splurges, and impulse buys. (Hint: A food journal makes a great way to track your spending.)The experience...
7/20/2015 7:00:00 AM
Sleep might be the most undervalued aspect of weight loss. When I called getting seven to nine hours of quality, uninterrupted sleep my big needle mover for fast, lasting fat loss, I wasn't kidding.Manufacturers understand our epidemic sleep struggle. That’s why any drugstore or health-minded grocery offers a wide array of natural sleep aids. How do you choose the best one? Based on research coupled...
7/12/2015 7:00:00 AM
Several years ago, I traveled through Italy, a country impossible to visit without at least sampling pasta. While I enjoyed a few small dishes throughout my trip, I adamantly took starch blockers before those meals.Italian pasta tends to be lower in gluten and other junky ingredients compared with American pasta. Even so, when I came back and hopped on the scales, I had lost one pound.I was sold on...
7/2/2015 9:00:00 PM
"Succumbing became all too easy, and a few bites quickly became the whole bar," my friend confessed about a particularly stressful three-hour airport layover when, after downing two glasses of pinot noir, she headed straight to one of the terminal's many bodegas, where she purchased and devoured a gargantuan dark chocolate bar.Whether for work or vacation, travel becomes stressful enough. Why add another...
6/25/2015 7:00:00 AM
"I need to step it up about five notches, stat," my friend texted, obviously frustrated about trying on bikinis for an upcoming two-week Maui vacation. She wanted fat loss fast without deprivation, hunger, a ridiculous fad diet, or other extreme measures.Over my nearly three decades working with celebrities and other A-listers who must become lean quickly for a movie role or other career opportunity,...
6/8/2015 7:00:00 AM
“I wasn’t even hungry,” my friend confessed recently. “I had a stressful morning, my coworker brought in hot cinnamon buns, and their waft become too hard to resist.”Hunger rarely provides motivation to snack. Like my friend, you’re stressed, bored, emotionally unfulfilled, or otherwise want to drown your feelings in a bag of chips or a blondie brownie.While some experts argue snacking or “mini-meals”...
5/31/2015 9:00:00 PM
“Everything in moderation” might be the most overused phrase in weight loss, yet I continually hear experts espouse this tired cliché.Based on my three decades working with clients for fat loss and weight loss resistance, I’ve learned moderation makes people overweight. It gives them license to eat things they shouldn’t eat. Simply put, moderation becomes our enemy for fast, lasting fat loss.Look at...
5/26/2015 7:00:00 AM
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