#nutrition

Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Efforts?

Carol Michaels Fitness

May 25, 2017

Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Efforts?

Friends can sabotage weight loss goals by: 1. Ordering high calorie starters for the table at a restaurant. It makes it very difficult to...

Carol Michaels

Jul 29, 2015

Diet Myths

Many people have bought into the myths and misconceptions about foods and how they affect our health and/or weight loss. These...

Carol Michaels

Mar 29, 2015

Combat Chemotherapy With Nutrition

Combat Chemotherapy: Nutrition to Carry You Through Eating right is something that everybody should try to do, but when you’re going...

Weight Loss Tips From A Weight Loss Success Story

Guest Blogger

Mar 6, 2015

Weight Loss Tips From A Weight Loss Success Story

After losing 70 lbs - 28% down from my peak - I learned these 13 tricks to help me along my weight loss journey. 1- Drink two tall...

Carol Michaels

Feb 15, 2015

Evaluate your Weight Loss Plan

Everyone is unique when it comes to weight loss, improving your fitness level and general health. You might be in a fitness program with...

Carol Michaels

Dec 3, 2014

Eating at Restaurants Can Make Weight Control Difficult

Eating at a restaurant is a fun experience – a chef cooks you an amazing meal and a waiter brings you your drinks, food, dessert, and...

Carol Michaels

Nov 30, 2014

Preventing Weight Gain In The Winter

If you have a tendency to gain weight during the winter, it’s important for you to figure out what factors contribute to this tendency,...

Eating to Combat Weight Loss during Cancer Treatment

Patricia Dean-Escoto

Jun 30, 2014

Eating to Combat Weight Loss during Cancer Treatment

One of the main concerns among many patients going through treatment for cancer is weight loss. The inability to keep weight on often...

Patricia Dean-Escoto

Apr 21, 2014

Nutrition for Neuropathy

Shortly after my surgery for breast cancer 6 years ago, I noticed I had numbness in a large part of my shoulders and back area. It was...

Carol Michaels

Dec 1, 2013

How to Eat Well and Fit in Exercise During the Holidays

For some of us, the holidays can be stressful. There can be holiday parties, family obligations, and eating temptations. How many of you...

Carol Michaels

Nov 10, 2013

Cancer Nutritional Information Can Be Inconsistent

Given that recent data reveals that dietary factors may influence outcomes in patients undergoing cancer treatment, and that over 60...

Faith Franz

Nov 8, 2013

How Exercise And Nutrition Can Help Cancer Patients

Throughout the treatment and recovery process, cancer patients can use nutrition and exercise to strengthen their body and manage their...

Carol Michaels

Sep 5, 2013

Healthy Eating and Exercise can Decrease Biomarkers

A pair of Yale Cancer Center interventional studies involving breast cancer survivors found that lifestyle changes in the form of healthy...

Carol Michaels

Mar 19, 2013

Hospitals Should Be A Good Role Model & Serve Healthy Food

Have you ever been to one of the leading hospitals in the world – and seen a McDonald’s inside the building? Have you asked the CEO of a...

Carol Michaels

Jan 2, 2013

Understanding Portion Sizes

Breakfast: 300-Calorie Meals & Portions Here are three morning meals that each weigh in at 300 calories. Healthy and quick homemade...

Carol Michaels

Nov 30, 2012

Tips for Weight Control When Dining Out

1. Restaurant portions can be huge so even before you start your meal, have your server wrap up half of your food. Keep in mind, a...