Diet and Nutrition

Hot Nutrition Books in 2024 – Part Two

We all could use a little health help and a great way to get advice you can trust is by turning the pages of a great nutrition book. But how do you separate the great stuff from the absolute fluff? You read this post, of course. These books will help provide relief from celiac’s disease, keep you trim, and tell you how to eat well while pregnant — among other things. This list is in addition to my first list of hot nutrition books.

Gluten-Free, Hassle Free: A Simple, Sane, Dietitian-Approved Program for Eating Your Way Back To Health is a book that focuses on a no-nonsense approach to the gluten-free diet.

Why I like it: Because one book on celiac’s disease and wheat allergy is not enough, you’ll also want this useful book on your desk.

The Glycemic Index Diet for Dummies is part of the For Dummies health and fitness series that offers information, suggestions and recipes for this low-starch eating plan.

Why I like it: Not being a huge fan of diets in general, I can still appreciate this book as a good source of information about the effects of carbohydrate-containing foods on blood sugar levels. (more…)

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Rebecca

Are you Fed Up? A Teacher’s School Lunch Blog Project

Have you wondered why kids have a hard time concentrating in class? Have you noticed a difference based on the foods they eat? If you have young children in school you have likely seen the type of foods being served during mealtimes. These aren’t exactly the meals that one would hope for their child. Not only do they typically lack all the nutrition kids need in such a developmental stage but they also don’t provide the healthy, whole foods that lead to higher concentration and learning in the classroom.

How can a child eating chicken nuggets and having drinks loaded with sugar possibly be able to focus through a math period? (more…)

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Amy

The Secret To Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat

Guest bloggers, Tammy Lakatos Shames, RD, CDN, CFT and Lyssie Lakatos, RD, CDN, CFT (a.k.a. The Nutrition Twin®) are registered dietitians and certified personal trainers. They share a nutrition consulting practice and are co-authors of The Secret To Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat and The 4-Week Plan to Drop a Size & Get Healthier with Simple Low-Sodium Swaps (HCI, Fall 2024) and Fire Up Your Metabolism: 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever (Simon and Schuster, 2004).

The Twins are regularly featured as nutrition experts on The Fox News Channel, Good Morning America and Discovery Health Channel and regularly appear on national radio stations, as well as print and online publications. Check out The Nutrition Twins‘ website to learn more from this dynamic duo.

As registered dietitians and certified personal trainers, we’ve spent more than a decade helping thousands of clients get healthy and achieve the bodies they longed for. Our most recent diet discovery compelled us to write The Secret To Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat, as we found what we consider the missing link when it comes to weight loss: Salt. It’s seemingly innocent, and often invisible, so most people don’t pay it any attention when it comes to weight loss.

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Posted on January 23, 2024 by GuestBlogger

Octomom Nadya Suleman Loses 50 Pounds Without Surgery

Any woman who has ever been pregnant knows how difficult it can be to lose the pregnancy weight after having one child. But what about losing all that weight after giving birth to eight little ones?

After delivering eight children, Nadya Suleman, aka “Octomom,” lost 150 pounds in just nine months, without surgery, without a personal trainer, and without customized diet meals delivered to her door. Topping the scales at 270 pounds just before giving birth in January of 2024, she is now back to her pre-pregnancy size 2 measurement.

So, how did she accomplish this amazing feat?

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Posted on January 21, 2024 by heather

Healthy Tips for Enjoying Girl Scout Cookies

A mere 21 days ago you rang in the new year with a resolution to the tune of getting fit, losing weight or eating healthier. And just like that, Girl Scout cookie season blows in and tempts you out of your resolve and back in to her $3.50-per-box sugar heaven.

Girl Scout cookies are like a double-edged sword: the purchase is for a good cause, yet, you end up with boxes of cookies staring you down from the pantry.

Guess what? It’s mind over matter. You do have more willpower than those cookies have sugar. We’re here to say that you can have your cookies, eat them too, stick to the resolution and make it through to the other side.

So here are our tips for making it through Girl Scout cookie season: (more…)

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Natalie K

Hot Nutrition Books in 2024 – Part One

We all could use a little health help and a great way to get advice you can trust is by turning the pages of a great nutrition book. But how do you separate the great stuff from the absolute fluff? You read this post, of course. I have a few books to recommend that would make any health nut’s shelf happy.

Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Celiac Disease: Nutrition You Can Live With, by Kimberly A. Tessmer RD, LD, is a guide for anyone living with celiac disease.

There have been other books about eating gluten-free written by people who aren’t experts. If you have celiac’s, you need a credible resource to help you eat nutritiously and avoid gluten.

Why I like it: If you want to know about gluten-free, you need to read this book because it is written by a celiac’s disease nutrition expert.

IBS – Free at Last!: A Revolutionary, New Step-by-Step Method for Those Who Have Tried Everything. Control IBS Symptoms by Limiting FODMAPS Carbohydrates in Your Diet is a book written by Patsy Catsos that provides some diet options for people with IBS that will help ease their symptoms.

Why I like it: If you struggle with IBS, you know how frustrating it can be to deal with eating foods. You wonder “is this going to give me a problem?”. This book is based on the latest science and it is communicated in a simple way. (more…)

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Rebecca

Tune In: Teens Who Lost Half Their Weight on the Rachael Ray Show

Tune in this Tuesday, January 19 to the Rachael Ray Show to see two amazing teenage weight loss stories.

Rachael opens her stage to these inspiring American teenagers, who through diet and exercise, lost almost half of their body weight.

It is estimated that one-third of American children ages 2 to 19 are overweight or obese. Moreover, overweight children are at much higher risk for being overweight adults. Therefore, successfully treating childhood weight problems early on is necessary to paving the way for a healthier future.

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Posted on January 18, 2024 by heather

Tune In: The Man Who is Eating Himself to Death on Oprah

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Tune in this Thursday, January 21 to The Oprah Show to watch a young man whose food and drug addiction is risking his life.

In a life and death intervention episode, this 547-pound man is eating himself to death while also paving a path to true self-destruction with heroin and cocaine. (more…)

Posted on January 18, 2024 by heather

Tune In: Bob Greene on the Rachael Ray Show

Tune in this Thursday, January 21 to the Rachael Ray Show when expert trainer Bob Greene, stops by to share his fitness tips for 2024.

Oprah’s fitness guru is back with more strategies to get you burning calories for a fitter year and best of all, you can do his exercises anywhere and everywhere – no gym membership needed.

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Posted on January 18, 2024 by heather

Is Eating Really an Addiction?

Addiction has been on my mind between watching Confessions of a Shopaholic for the first (and last) time and reading Vaughn Bell’s article on the subject. I absolutely agree that the word addiction has been loosely applied to a plethora of enjoyable activities in common culture. I am hopeful that these so-called addictions will not be added to the new Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, which is to be published May 2024; however, Vaughn Bell’s article informed me about a treatment facility that has opened to treat “internet addiction.” The article does a great job of explaining what defines an addiction both technically and in popular culture.

As a therapist, I stick to the DSM to determine if something truly qualifies as a disorder. There is no diagnostic criteria for eating addiction. However, I also consider how helpful it is or is not to think about overeating in terms of an addiction. It could be beneficial to consider overeating an “addiction” if it helps someone take this behavior seriously. (more…)

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Brooke Randolph

Eating More Fish May Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

Add yet another long-term health issue to the list of risks of being overweight. Previous studies have connected middle age obesity to dementia in late adulthood. Now, scientists may have found a link between Alzheimer’s and a hormone that helps control appetite. Leptin tells your body when you are satiated and reduces appetite. It is a hormone that is produced by fat cells. Research conducted during 12 years at the Boston University Medical Center found that those participants with the lowest levels of leptin had a 25% chance of developing Alzheimer’s, while those with the highest levels of leptin had only a 6% chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease. (more…)

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Brooke Randolph

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