By Real Age

You’ll be fitting into those skinny jeans in no time if you adopt this simple habit: pay with cash.

Yep, when you hit the grocery store, just leave your credit card — and debit card — at home. A recent study revealed that paying with cash instead of plastic seriously quells the temptation to load up the shopping cart with belly-padding junk food.

Read the full post on Boost Your Junk-Food Resistance with This Simple Plan.

By Stacy Goldberg

Treat your taste buds and your heart tonight at dinner! Pork tenderloin is a great source of lean protein, and cherries are full of antioxidants and anthocyanins, which have been shown to reduce the risk for heart disease by decreasing inflammation and lowering cholesterol.

Serves 4 to 6

1-1/2-pound pork tenderloin [or 2 1-pound tenderloins]
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1/2 tablespoon fresh rosemary needles, plus 2 sprigs
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 large clove garlic, finely chopped
1/2 cup low-sodium, organic chicken broth
1/2 cup apple cider [or 1/2 cup dry white wine]
1 cup organic, dried tart Michigan cherries

Read the full post on Roast Pork Tenderloin with Traverse City Cherries.

Carbohydrate Loading
Many athletes know that they should carbohydrate load prior to endurance events. Very few athletes know how to properly do this. In sport medicine terms, carbohyrate loading is a “practice that aims to maximize muscle glycogen stores prior to competition”. Muscle glycogen is the storage form of carbohydrates found in the muscle.

Carbohydrate loading is beneficial for events that last longer than 90 minutes. Itʼs said that it can improve an athletes performance by “2-3%” through prolonging the time to exhaustion. Carbohydrate loading includes 3 days of a high carbohydrate diet, in addition to very light or no training or exercise.

Read the full post on Nutrition Preparation for Your Big Race Day.

This is the day you decide to start your lifestyle on a healthy path. What do you do?

Try these easy steps and you will be well on your way!

1.  Put your goals and wishes down on paper.

What’s your wellness vision? Where do you imagine yourself two to three years from now? Set three-month and weekly goals based on this vision. Goals should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Action-based, Realistic and Time-oriented.

Read the full post on How to Jump Start Your Wellness Plan.

With so many possible interventions, the media has hyped this nutrient as noteworthy as techies have pumped up Apple’s iPad. When the New York Times states that consumers spent some serious coin on “the D” with a price tag of $235 million in 2008 (up from $40 million in 2001), I’d say it’s time to review the literature and deliver the goods on what science is intending to say, minus the propaganda and publicity.

With such a health benefit bonanza, much confusion comes with finding true importance, doses and, cost values when such a frenzy hits the market.

Read the full post on The Second Coming – Vitamin D?.

Real hunger is the body’s physical need for food. Appetite, on the other hand, is an emotional desire for food that can be caused by stress, boredom or depression. Eat only when hungry.

One way to eat less at lunch is to have a glass of fruit juice late in the morning. According to a study at Brigham Young University, drinking real fruit juice about forty minutes before lunch time caused subjects to eat 30% fewer calories.