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Healthy Recipe of the Week – Fresh Mushroom and Parsley Salad
If you are like me, salad gets a little boring. Plain old lettuce can only take you so far. This salad by Giada De Laurentiis is a fun departure from a traditional salad and provide ...
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Healthy Protein Brownies – Sea Salt & Coconut meet Chocolate
CHOCO-COCONUT PROTEIN BROWNIES
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Lap Swimming more than just Cardio
Swimming laps has long been considered a great way to get a cardio work out in. Whether your swimming freestyle, backstroke, breastroke or butterfly, swimming allows you to get a full body workout in using ...
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Healthy Puerto Rican Dish
MASHED GREEN PLANTAIN Here’s a trip to the Caribbean with a clean version of Puerto Rico’s favorite dish: Mofongo. This is one of my favorites, and I need to try it when I go home ...
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Healthy Recipe of the Week – Roasted Chickpeas
Looking for a healthy, high protein, high fiber snack to help curb salty snack cravings? I have just the thing, roasted chickpeas. There are 1000 ways to make them, but here is my method.
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Healthy Recipe of the Week – Cucumber Cups
Looking for a healthy option to bring to a Labor day cookout? I have just the thing! These cucumber cups are so yummy and visually appealing that they will be the talk of the party.
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Healthy Recipe of the Week – Chicken Souvlaki Lettuce Wraps
Frankly, I miss nasty carnival food sometimes, but this weeks recipe can cure the craving for a big fat naughty gyro. I realized, after I made this for the first time, that I was not ...
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Healthy Recipe of the Week – Cauliflower Pizza Crust
Confession: two months ago, if you had told me that I would write healthy food recipes for a health club, I might have laughed at you. Not for lack of kitchen experience, but for lack ...
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Diabetes vs. Personal Trainer
I was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes eleven years ago in my early twenties. Since then I have constantly struggled to get my A1C (three month average blood sugar) to a normal level. The average ...
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19 Fitness Tips for your Exercise and Fitness Goals
Fitness Tip 19: “The following is a list of known power foods: almonds + other nuts, beans + legumes, spinach and other greens, oatmeal (without added sugar), eggs, turkey + other lean meats, dairy (fat ...
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Obesity and Lifestyle Changes
Childhood Obesity In going to great lengths to help and protect our children, we often forget some of the small things we do daily can have the biggest benefits. Encouraging and participating in an active ...
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