Nutrition
Healthy Living 101: How to Read a Nutrition Label
Too often, purchasing food can be confusing, especially with all of the persuasive marketing tactics used by food companies. Learning how to read, understand, and compare ...
Calorie Saving Substitutions
If you eat more calories than your body needs, your body will inevitable store them as excess weight. The trick is to reduce your calorie intake ...
Ideal Body Composition: What You Should Know
We live in a culture that has become increasingly more obsessed with body image and weight. Dangerously thin bodies are celebrated and coveted, perpetuating the unrealistic ...
Eat This, Not That: Breakfast Edition
You've heard that breakfast is the most important meal. It boosts your metabolism, staves off hunger, and provides you energy to start and get through your ...
Real FitDay Users Share: What Was Your "A-Ha" Moment?
What sparked you to embark on your fitness journey? For many of us, it was one moment or incident - the "a-ha" moment - that got ...
Meal Planning Made Simple
The key to long-term weight management and healthy eating is consuming a balanced diet. Restrictive eating and fad diets may provide temporary weight loss, but they ...
10 Tools to Help Keep You on Track
1. Good Pair of Shoes Make sure you have a pair of shoes that fit you well and are made for the type of activity you plan ...
Four New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep
The new year is here! While many, many people plan to use this landmark time to get healthier or lose weight, the problem with these goals ...
Healthy Kitchen Staples to Start 2012
If you want to make over your health, refrigerator, and pantry, then make a note of these 12 staples that will get you eating right in the ...
The Healthy Food Halo
Have you ever noticed that certain foods are deemed "healthy" and we seem to think we can eat these foods in unlimited amounts because of their ...
Pizza a 'Vegetable'? How to Handle School Lunches
Recently, Congress passed a bill that classifies the small amount of tomato paste in pizza as the equivalent of a serving of vegetables. The problem is ...
10 Tips to Help You Achieve Your New Year's Health Goals
With the new year comes the opportunity for a fresh start. For many people, this means leading a healthier lifestyle and losing weight. If this is ...
The FitDay Guide to Healthier Holiday Baking
The holiday season always seems to throw us all into a baking frenzy. We whip up dozens of cookies, cupcakes, pies, candies, and other treats that ...
5 Ways to Eat Mindfully at Holiday Parties
The holidays can cause an internal struggle between the desire to splurge on festive treats at numerous feasts and the will to avoid the inevitable weight ...
Exercising Outdoors in the Winter
Winter weather can deter even the most dedicated exercisers. Less daylight, colder temperatures, and the temptation to curl up under warm blankets makes keeping up with ...
What You Should Know: The Risks and Rewards of Bariatric Surgery
The National Center for Health Statistics report that 30% of adults (over 60 million) and 17% of children and adolescents (12.5 million) are obese - i.e. having a Body ...
Using Thanksgiving Day Leftovers in a Healthy Way
Turkey Day has come and gone, leaving us all feeling a little softer around the middle. So what are you supposed to do with all of ...
How to Cut Extra Fat, Sugar, and Calories from Fall Vegetable Dishes
Sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkins, and other colorful squash are available in abundance during the fall season. Upcoming holidays like Thanksgiving also bring these vegetables to the ...
Spilling the Beans on Bean Benefits
We all know that fiber is an important part of a healthy diet. We also know that fiber is likely our closest ally when it comes ...
Omega-3 and Omega-6: The Essential Fatty Acids to Include in Your Diet
Essential fatty acids are polyunsaturated fats that we must get from food. They are necessary for optimal brain function, metabolism regulation, hair growth, bone health, and ...
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