Advice

Relationships take work; your connection with your personal trainer is no different. Sagdrina Jalal discusses the dos and don’ts for a successful relationship with your fitness trainer.

Dana reviews the Total Gym and how to pick the right model of this popular piece of exercise equipment to meet your needs.

For all the folks who went low carb on New Years Day, and who just want to know what they can eat without jacking up their blood sugar or doing a lot of cooking, this is your primer. Dana shows you the best ways to set yourself up for low carb success.

We all know about macronutrients–fats, proteins, and carbohydrates–but what about micronutrients? Mira Calton helps us understand their critical role in health and weight loss especially in relation to a low carb diet.

Dr. Nicole Avena offers tips and strategies that may be the key to aiding your weight-loss and healthy-eating goals this year.

As you sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner with your family and delicious low carb foods, take a moment to consider how the low carb lifestyle has changed your life! Dr. Eric Westman, co-author of Cholesterol Clarity and The New Atkins for a New You shares what he is thankful for as he looks at the evolution of the low carb lifestyle.

Somatopsychic Health & Wellness: "It's all in your head." In mid-20th-century America this was a common diagnosis. While it is now widely excepted that stress plays a part in illness, the notion of purely psychogenic disease has fallen out of favor.

Whether you are a dedicated physician with a thriving private practice; a factory worker on shifts and exhausted from overtime, or a homeschooling, stay-at-home mom returning from a long day at the zoo, the need to be nourished is inescapable. Throw a special eating plan into the confusion – your low carb diet – and the panic may become all-consuming. With just a few simple suggestions, you can turn those dreaded moments of desperation into food-filled victories.

Lack of routine can be a major barrier to wellness. Daily living provides a lot of distractions; it is difficult to function optimally without a well-scripted plan. Think about the healthy and fit people you know. Do they have a fairly set schedule for their workouts? Are their meals and periods of rest considered in advance?

Summer is coming to an end, and as the days get shorter and cooler it can become more difficult to maintain the zeal for exercise you had earlier in the season. No longer can nights or evenings be dedicated to working out, since your kids might have a concert or sporting event to attend or need to be picked up from an event. All these distractions make working out more difficult. So, how do you stay motivated to work out in the face of mounting demands on your time?

Eat Your Veggies for Optimal Metabolic Functioning! by Dr. Eric Westman. We look at carbohydrates in their most nutritious – and benign – form.