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To Change Your Diet, Eat What You Want

Coach Caroline, 10/06/2015

Utilizing the following tools will make it much easier to begin eating healthier when you are ready. If you follow these steps, you’ll be able to adopt a lasting nutrient-dense diet style.

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Sugar: Help! It’s Everywhere!

Sugar, Sugar…Help! It’s Everywhere!

Coach Melanie, 09/30/2015

Food engineers work with food manufacturers to addict consumers to their foods, namely ones with salt, sugar, and oil. They alter taste, color, smell, and packaging until they find just the right combination that keeps you coming back for more.

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How to Include More Fruits and Vegetables in Your Diet

How to Include More Fruits and Vegetables in Your Diet

Kate Glover, 09/21/2015

From a young age many of us have turned up our noses to the foods that are most beneficial for our bodies. But we need the essential nutrients fruits and vegetables provide. Here are some ways to increase your daily fruit and vegetable intake:

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How to Binge or Overeat with Sanity

Coach Caroline, 08/26/2015

Binges are so damaging because people let themselves go and just unconsciously start shoveling food in. But now I know how to manage a binge healthfully, and as an ironic result, I no longer binge.

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How Your Environment Influences Your Diet—and What To Do About It

Coach Caroline, 08/19/2015

The environment has much more pull on your behavior than you’d like to believe. One way to make diet change easier (or even possible) is to accept that altering your environment will be necessary.

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Healthy Snacks to Make Healthy Eating Easier

Healthy Snacks to Make Healthy Eating Easier

Kayla Sheely, 08/18/2015

Snacking: possibly one of the easiest areas to slip up when it comes to healthy eating. But if you keep healthy snacks in your house you’ll be much more likely to stick to your commitment to healthy eating. Try some of these!

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Salt, Sugar, and Oil: The GOOD, The BAD and The UGLY

Salt, Sugar, and Oil: The GOOD, The BAD and The UGLY

Coach Melanie, 07/28/2015

Dr. Klaper’s film Salt, Sugar, and Oil: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly illustrates how natural sources of salt, sugar, and oil benefit our health while food giants addict us to processed foods that have the opposite effect.

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Don’t Let Modern-Day Sirens Ruin Your Weight Loss Plan

Coach Caroline, 07/27/2015

Have you ever felt totally committed to a weight loss plan, but then found yourself giving in to unhealthy temptations? What should you do when approaching a sticky-bun situation?

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Is Coffee to Blame for Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?

Is Coffee to Blame for Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?

Eric Baron, 07/20/2015

Coffee doesn’t have the bad reputation that it used to, partly due to new studies and coffee companies’ big-time marketing efforts. But what’s at risk? Could it be that your coffee is to blame for stalling or even reversing your weight loss?

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Motivation, like Physical Fitness, Requires Regular Training

Coach Caroline, 06/30/2015

We are constantly barraged with environmental cues to eat bad food. My favorite technique for protecting myself against the propaganda is to regularly educate myself with healthy information through videos, books, podcasts, etc.

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