Healthy Eating
How to Select a Healthy Protein Bar
As a registered dietitian, I'm an advocate for real, whole foods. (See Iron Chef Michael Symon: Eat Natural Foods for Improved Performance.) However, I do encourage my clients to carry around healthy [...]
3 Unconventional Tips for Healthy Eating
You became a competitive athlete because you enjoy a challenge. It isn't an easy process to reach the top. It takes hard work. Same with nutrition. If healthy eating came [...]
5 Low-Calorie Pantry Staples to Have on Hand
The best tip I can offer any athlete on healthy eating is to always plan ahead. Having grocery items washed, chopped and already cooked allows for a week of clean [...]
Broccoli or Big Macs? How Collegiate Athletes Can Eat Healthy
Among all college students, athletes should be especially interested in eating healthy. This is because they burn so many calories through practice, conditioning, lifting and games; and in order to [...]
How To Sustain Healthy Eating Habits
Most of us are creatures of habit. Whether we learned them from family or friends, we all have routines that we continually use in our lives. Our routines even apply [...]
4 Tips to Help You Stop DIEting and Start Eating Healthy
It doesn't take a genius to start eating healthy, though many women act like it does. Look at the first three letters of the word "diet." Tell me: who really [...]
How to Ditch Cellulite
Cellulite, that annoying "cheese-like" dimpling that appears on thighs, butts, arms and abdomens, is caused by small fat protrusions in the dermis, the skin's second layer. No one is immune [...]
How to Form Healthy Eating Habits
Eating healthy can improve many aspects of your life, including your mood, sleeping habits, energy levels and, of course, your athletic performance. Plus, it reduces the risk of disease later [...]
Learn to Eat Healthy With Silver Medalist Ogonna Nnamani
With so many delicious empty calorie options out there, even elite athletes can struggle with meal choices. It's a battle that former U.S. national volleyball team member and silver medalist Ogonna [...]
Protect Yourself Against Fitness Gimmicks With “Muscle Myths”
It's easy to get lost in the thicket of information on the Internet and in magazines about America's top pop culture obsession: health and fitness. Hard work and healthy eating [...]