Posted by Caitlin Quinn on December 12, 2012 under Balanced Eating, Body Care, Fitness, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices, Nutrition
-Seems that no matter which TV station you watch, or website you visit, you’re bombarded with tips on how to handle the holidays without gaining weight. As dietitians at iBeamforLife, we know that it’s actually about a lot more than that. It’s about your whole-health, as we say in our blogs. Imagine you, enjoying a holiday where you kept on track – not just at the holiday party, but the day AFTER the party as well.
Days after an event are prime times for low will-power. It’s used up after stressful social events with lots of temptation and maybe more than a few good reasons to stress-eat! I often hear from clients who say: “Everything was fine until the next day.” So how do you safeguard your whole health through crazy, hectic holidays? Use these Five Steps to help you maintain your personal balance while relaxing and enjoying more of the season.
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Posted by Caitlin Quinn on September 20, 2012 under Balanced Eating, Fitness, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices, Nutrition, Recipes
The air is crisp, the leaves are falling – autumn is clearly on its way. In my family, autumn means two things: football and tailgate parties. Whether it’s high school football or the NFL, tailgating and football parties are a major part of our weekend.
Unfortunately, tailgate favorites are often loaded with calories, and if you’re not careful, they can quickly undo your health goals. The average tailgater can easily consumer 1,200 calories in a single game!
For some perspective, take a look at some commonly eaten football favorites that will have you working out like a pro player to burn them off:
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Posted by Joe Wheeler on April 20, 2012 under Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices
Finding your best health isn’t always easy but it’s do-able and worth your time. Understanding your past and present influences, as well as cause and effect helps. We know that obesity and lifestyle choices are at the root of most chronic illness in the US. Yet having that knowledge is only the beginning. Although it seems illusive in our hectic lives, some simple insights and heightened awareness can help you make your best health a reality without the drama.
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Posted by Lynn Polmanteer on March 22, 2012 under Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices
As a Registered Dietitian at the Friedman Diabetes Institute in New York City, I participate in many outreach events to raise awareness about diabetes. Without a doubt, the most common questions I get during these events are:
“What exactly is diabetes?” and
“Am I at risk for developing diabetes?”
These are important questions to a nation dealing with an explosion of prediabetes and diabetes. So let’s get started by covering the basics and you can follow-up by taking a quick, informative, online test from the American Diabetes Association’s website.
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Posted by Karen Kaplan on February 26, 2012 under Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices
We all want to feel liked, loved, happy. And we should. The US Constitution guarantees the right to pursue happiness, yet most of us think the key to bliss is somewhere outside of ourselves where we’re richer, prettier, thinner, different. Advertisers know this and aim all manner of products, movies and even food packaging at us, implying that we can have happiness by trying the latest quick fix. Even reality shows taunt us with the possibility of overnight fame and fortune – happiness and bliss implied in the story-line. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines bliss as a state of complete happiness – even using words like “paradise” in the definition.
Sounds like quite a destination. So how can you find it?
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Posted by Joe Wheeler on November 30, 2011 under Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices
Life goes on for us day to day. We get caught up in work, family, friends and another year flows by like water. As time passes we assume our health will be there until one day – an emergency. At iBeamforLife we know the vast majority of chronic health issues are due to lifestyle choices – not genetics. A fair portion of our clients confront health that breaks down after years of neglect.
This is a complex form of self abuse that’s sadly synonymous with American culture and no-one is to blame, yet as adults we are all responsible for making choices about self care each day. If we don’t make the choices that embrace prevention in an effective way – someone else will, often at a hospital during a stressful emergency situation and at a cost much higher than simpler preventive methods. That’s why a periodic reality check-up is so important. The private client stories we regularly hear are poignant, frightening, filled with drama and sadly – preventable.
Can you see yourself or someone you love in what follows?
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Posted by Lynn Polmanteer on November 7, 2011 under Balanced Eating, Fitness, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices, Nutrition
We all have different holiday traditions. I’ll bet that despite any differences your traditions, like mine growing up, were centered on cooking and eating. As a teen, after seeing my Grandmother’s challenges with Type 2 Diabetes, I became an MS, RD, CDN, CDE – ultimately specializing in patients with diabetes at the Friedman Diabetes Institute. That alphabet of acronyms that usually follows my name these days simply means that I know a lot about diabetes and can help you, with diabetes or not, to ride the holiday train and navigate those fast-approaching plates of food, healthfully.
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Posted by Tracy Ilene Miller on September 22, 2011 under Balanced Eating, Healthy Living, Lifestyle
Louisa Kasdon, a former economist, is also a former restaurant operator turned food writer and editor, most recently of Stuff magazine. And that’s only the short list. Kasdon is always busy, recrafting and reshaping her relationship with the topics she writes about and food — as much as it is changing in our culture.
A member of the Harvard School of Public Health’s Nutrition Round Table and founder and CEO of Boston’s Let’s Talk About Food Festival (in partnership with the Boston Museum of Science) , Kasdon has become a staunch advocate for public education around food and health. In conversation with iBeamforLife blogger Tracy Ilene Miller, Kasdon reveals how shifts in our culture are galvanizing forces in the restaurant world, departments of public health, the educational system and beyond, creating a movement worth watching — and joining.
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Posted by Tracy Ilene Miller on September 9, 2011 under Lifestyle, Making choices, Parenting
This summer, my daughter proudly crowed a phrase she picked up in first grade: “I’m a scientist, Mama!”
Scientists, she learned, observe, gather information (and specimens, which could account for the 20 different bugs she’s collected in her outside “workshop”), ask questions and then make decisions or come to conclusions.
For a mother continuously gearing up to shield her daughter from those forces that beckon her to develop poor eating habits, this proclamation was one key to my summer strategy for continuing to develop my daughter’s internal compass about food.
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Posted by Caitlin Quinn on August 11, 2011 under Balanced Eating, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices
People I meet are surprised to hear that, as a dietitian, I adore dining out. “Isn’t restaurant food bad for you?” is the question I often get.
Eating out is very American, and in my case nicely linked to my family. As a kid I spent summers with my grandmother who believed in a three-hour lunch at a good restaurant. And to this day, my mother and I do our catching up at our favorite restaurants. Dietitian or not, in my family a restaurant table is equivalent to a kitchen table.
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