For Women
Healthy Living 101: Classifying Foods
Foods can be classified by the way they affect the body and/or by their food group. It is important to understand both in order to ...
The Truth About Brown Fat
You may have heard of the term "brown fat" before, so what does that mean exactly? It's not a type of fat you cook with, but ...
Proteins, Fats, and Carbs: How to Balance Your Diet
Dieting can be confusing. High-protein diets claim to help you lose weight quickly, but can lead to high cholesterol and increase your risk for heart disease. ...
Excess Weight Ages Us More Quickly
We all know that being overweight or obese can pose threats to our health, especially at a young age. But what effects does overweight or obesity ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Controlling Gestational Diabetes For A Healthy Pregnancy
Following a healthy diet is critical during pregnancy, but women who develop gestational diabetes (a form of diabetes that develops while pregnant) can benefit greatly by ... Read More »
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Combatting Body Fat In Women
Body fat in women accumulates naturally on areas including the abdomen and hips or thighs creating the commonly referred to "apple" or "pear" shaped body. Accumulation ... Read More »
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Healthy Breastfeeding Diet Tips
A healthy diet during breastfeeding supports both mother and baby as they transition through the first weeks and months together. There is no need for a ... Read More »
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The Connection Between Weight Loss and Hot Flashes
If you've had one, there's no mistaking it: the sudden, intense, hot feeling in your upper body, perhaps accompanied by a rapid heartbeat, sweating, dizziness, nausea ... Read More »
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Getting Bikini-Season Ready Part 1: Your Diet
With summer just around the corner, you may be wondering what last-minute steps you can take to get your body bikini-ready. While we want to strive ... Read More »
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Feeling Full on Fewer Calories
One of the biggest obstacles you'll encounter while cutting back on calories is feeling full throughout the day. Hunger will sneak up on you when you ... Read More »
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Lack of Sleep: A Weighty Issue
Not getting enough sleep can do more than just make you feel sluggish the next day--it can actually sabotage your weight-loss goals. When you feel tired ... Read More »
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The 10 Easy Steps to Weight Loss
Over the last 20 years, food portions have increased dramatically. As the size of our plates have grown, so has the expectation that the larger amount of ... Read More »
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Five Best-Kept Secrets to Include in Your Diet
You always hear about foods that you need to avoid or eliminate from your diet. What about foods that you should be eating, but may not ... Read More »
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Smart Substitutions: 5 'Staples' to Trade Out of Your Pantry
Any stop to the grocery store is made quicker and easier when you just have a few 'staples' to pick up. There are many things we ... Read More »