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  • Healthy Weight Loss: Build a Positive Self-Image Along with a Better Body

    In General Health Behavior

    While you’re on your way to building a better body through diet and exercise, remember to love the skin you’re in. In order to focus on being healthy, you have to put yourself in a positive mindset for success. 

  • Break Your Weekend Eating Habits: Tips for a Happy, Healthy Weekend

    In Food & Nutrition

    It may be tempting to lounge on the couch after a hard week’s work, but healthy weekend eating is equally as important and easy as weekdays. Tips to break your weekend eating habits today. 

  • 10 Stress Busters: Healthy Ways to Reduce Stress

    In Food & Nutrition

    Stress eating can quickly lead to weight gain, but there are plenty of healthy ways to reduce stress. Squash the burden for good with our 10 stress busters. 

  • How to Choose the Healthiest Salad

    In Food & Nutrition

    Is having a salad your first thought when you head to lunch with your friends, or out to dinner with your spouse? While your instincts are right on, salad can be one of the most unwise choices for your medical weight loss program. But it doesn’t have to be.

  • Healthier Summer Snacking

    In Food & Nutrition

    Planning ahead and incorporating healthy snacks are great ways to make sure you stay on track with maintaining your weight loss when life is busy.

  • Healthy Recipes: Summer Salads

    In Food & Nutrition

    Cool off this summer and keep it slim with these doctor-approved healthy recipes for summer salads.

  • Brown Bag It: Pack a Healthy Lunch to Lose Weight

    In Food & Nutrition

    A brown-bagged lunch doesn't have to be boring. You can enjoy delicious meals on a medical weight loss plan. Follow these tips to build a healthy lunch.

  • Best Healthy Chicken Recipes: Top 10 Picks

    In Food & Nutrition

    Beat chicken boredom and eat up with 10 palate-pleasing, healthy chicken recipes.

  • 8 Healthy Substitutes, Debunked!

    In Food & Nutrition

    You can lighten up some of your guilty pleasures by using a healthy substitute. But all substitutes aren't equal. We've separated the facts from the myths.

  • Cooked Foods Versus Raw Foods: Which is Healthier?

    In Food & Nutrition

    About two million years ago, our ancient human ancestors are believed to have first started using fire to cook their food. When fire met food, eating habits of early civilization advanced, and today cooking is an art. With many debates about the health of primitive man compared to modern society, it begs the question- did cooking improve upon or diminish the nutritional value of food? And when it comes to weight loss, which is better? Cooked or raw?

  • A Healthy Liver Supports Weight Loss

    In Food & Nutrition

    You may not realize it, but your liver plays a major role in your health and weight. The liver is a busy worker and it’s involved in many body functions. Here are a few items on the liver’s daily agenda:

  • Sitting at Work Harmful to Your Health: How to Fix It

    In General Health Behavior

    Sitting at work is killing us. Our bodies are not designed to be sitting as much as we do. It’s time we get up, get moving, and get healthy.

  • Sitting at Work Harmful to Your Health: How to Fix It

    In General Health Behavior

    Sitting at work is killing us. Our bodies are not designed to be sitting as much as we do. It’s time we get up, get moving, and get healthy. 

  • Best Healthy Vegetarian Recipes: Top 10 Picks

    In Food & Nutrition

    Vegetarian diets can be packed with delicious recipes that will help you lose weight. Try one of our top 10 healthy vegetarian recipes tonight!

  • Top Healthy Eating Myths: Debunked!

    In Food & Nutrition

    Misinformation about healthy eating can make your weight loss journey more challenging. We’ll look at some common healthy eating (and drinking) myths – and learn what you should do instead! 

  • How Your Weight Affects Heart Health

    In Food & Nutrition

    Did you know that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and more lives are claimed from cardiovascular diseases than all forms of cancer combined? In fact, in the US, someone has a heart attack every 34 seconds, and every minute someone dies from a heart disease-related event.

     

  • Keeping Healthy at Home

    In General Health Behavior

    It’s time to shift your focus indoors and find some things in your own home that can keep you motivated and supported through the cold winter months. Here are five suggestions to help.

  • Keeping Healthy at Home

    In General Health Behavior

    It’s time to shift your focus indoors and find some things in your own home that can keep you motivated and supported through the cold winter months. Here are five suggestions to help.

  • 5 Healthy Foods that Keep You Warm

    In Food & Nutrition

    Too much hot chocolate can take a toll on your weight loss plan during the winter months. Try one of our favorite healthy foods that keep you warm. 

  • Easy Tips for Healthy Home Cooking

    In Food & Nutrition

    While it’s fine to eat out once in a while, we all know it’s something we shouldn’t do very often, especially on a medical weight loss program. Here are some easy ways to cook delicious and healthy meals at home.

  • Healthy Food Shopping on a Budget

    In Food & Nutrition

    As the economic news continues to be less-than-rosy, you may find your belt-tightening measures have extended to your food. But you may also have seen the research showing that healthy eating costs more. How can you stay within your budget without sacrificing success with your medical weight loss plan?

  • Essential Vitamins For Healthy Living

    In Food & Nutrition

    We all know it’s important to get adequate amounts of vitamins in our diets. This week we’ll spotlight a few vitamins that could be lacking in your diet – and let you know how to ensure you’re getting enough.

  • The Healthiest Fast Food Options

    In Food & Nutrition

    Although fast food should only be an occasional meal on your medical weight loss plan, there are ways to make it healthier. Here's a look at the best fast food choices you can make.

  • Healthy Super Bowl Snacks | 5 Ways to Keep Your Snack Attack in Check

    In Food & Nutrition

    A healthy Super Bowl isn't impossible. Enjoy the game and your favorite Super Bowl snacks with these simple tips and tricks.

  • Metabolic Syndrome: The Biggest Health Threat You Don’t Know About

    In Food & Nutrition

    Metabolic Syndrome is not a disease in and of itself, but rather a collection of symptoms as described in our test above. And it puts you at significant increase for heart attack, stroke, and developing Type 2 diabetes.

  • Can Being Overweight Impact Eye Health?

    In Food & Nutrition

    It would not be an exaggeration to say that our eyes are amazing. They are a fascinating combination of over 2 million intricate parts that play a well-orchestrated central role in helping us navigate the world. In fact, the biological process of seeing requires about half of your brain’s capacity to function properly. All of this is going on in the background as we go about living our lives each day. But what happens to that process when obesity enters the picture? It’s a topic that is little discussed, but very worthy of conversation.

     



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