Well Being Magazine

Eat Slowly… Then Fast

By Brian B. Parr, Ph.D., ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist What you eat is an essential part of achieving and maintaining good health. What you may not know is that how and when you eat can be just as important. This is especially true if your goal is to lose weight, but changing the way you eat also can slow the aging process and reduce your risk of cancer and other Read more »

A Good Catch (For Dinner)

Don’t let the cries of your picky-eaters run aground your best efforts to get your kids to eat more fish. Here’s what you should know about serving your kids the catch of the day. How many times in the past week did your kids eat fish? How about the last month? If your answer is “very little” or “I don’t remember the last time my kids ate a fish dinner,” you Read more »

Quinoa: The little grain that packs a powerful nutritional punch.

Over the past decade, a grain called Quinoa began working its way into the public consciousness in subtle little ways – recipes called for using it as a topping on yogurt, as an addition to salads and stir fry, or as a substitute for rice. It became the latest “new kid,” in a list of trendy super foods. I became Quinoa curious. What do we actually know about this mysterious Read more »

STOP: Give food cravings the brush-off.

The aroma of chocolate chip cookies, the thought of a juicy burger with a side of fries, or the dream of a steamy deep-dish pizza smothered in pepperoni and cheese can stop you in your tracks and quickly turn from a casual food fantasy to an unwelcome indulgence. Even the most nutrition-savvy among us can slip every now and then. The trouble comes when food cravings start overruling reasonable restraint Read more »