Friday Fit Tip: A Nutrition Tip From Our New Teen Girls’ Fitness Book!

For today’s Friday Fit Tip, we thought it might be fun to do something from our new teen fitness book: The Girl’s Guide to Fitting in Fitness. We’re super proud to have created a resource for teen girls that has sane, liveable and fun advice in it—and we want to keep sharing the love! So today’s [...]

Don’t Fear the Fish: 7 Easy Ways to Cook Stuff With Fins

I have grown to love fish over the years. And, unlike Erin, I’ve never been afraid of it. Granted, it hasn’t always been my favorite meat of choice, but I’ve definitely learned to embrace it as it’s such a lean and healthy protein option. And, seriously, I think fish offers as many or more ways to cook it as any other meat out [...]

Don’t Fear the Fat! Why Your Body Needs Healthy Fats

Fat. That single word evokes a sense of panic in many. Don’t eat the fat! Buy the low-fat—always! But times they are a-changin’, kind of. And when it comes to high-quality, nutritious and natural fats (read: the stuff that comes from the earth and not the packaged, processed kinds), they are nothing to be afraid [...]

How to Make Your Own Energy Bars at Home

It’s easy to get addicted to nutrition and energy bars. They’re just so quick. And convenient. And tasty. But, like most things that come in a shiny foil wrapper, they’re not the healthiest. Darn! Though many boast a mega-punch of protein, added vitamins/minerals, antioxidants and other good stuff, it’s hard to find an energy bar that doesn’t have a bunch of added [...]

Vitamin Gum: The Next Big Thing?

It seems that we’re all trying to squeeze more nutritional goodies into our lives these days. Case in point, a new trend we’re starting to see pop up more and more: vitamin or supplement gum. Unlike other gum flavors that try to replicate dessert-y goodness (I’m looking at you, Extra), these use gum more as a [...]

How Many Restrictions Is Too Many?

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’m dealing with TMJ, which means that everything I eat is either in liquid form or soft enough that it doesn’t require proper chewing. Needless to say, this puts quite the cramp in my eating style. On top of that, as you know, I’m a pescatarian (meaning [...]

Healthy Eating Secrets From Around the World

You know how we love Bulu Box (remember to use code FBG411 for a free month!)? Well, in addition to little boxes of healthy goodness to try, they also write some pretty rad stuff. So today we’re featuring their healthy eating secrets from around the world!  While each culture and each individual go about achieving it in different [...]

A Hunt for the Gluten Monster

Give me a pitchfork and a torch because I’m on a hunt for a terrible monster! The Gluten Monster! Okay, a bit dramatic, but I live for drama, so it’s all good. I swear I’ve been on a witch hunt for gluten since I first began the alkaline diet. Emma Goodman, my beloved nutritionist, told me [...]

10 Tricks to Eat Healthy at Work

The office. It’s where most of us spend the majority of our weeks. While that realization can be downright sad pants, it also shows how your habits at work can have a big effect on your weight-loss and health goals. Sure, the workplace can be full of temptations—whether the vending machine calls your name at [...]

907 Reasons Your Metabolism Does Not Work Like Math

 Jonathan Bailor, the author of The Smarter Science of Slim, is becoming a regular here on this site because we just can’t get enough of his good scientifically backed info! First he shared with us how a calorie is not just a calorie, then he broke down sugar addiction with tips on how to break it. [...]

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