Nutritionally Fit

9 Superfoods to Control Blood Sugar

Controlling your blood sugar levels through eating healthfully is a key way to lowering the risk of diabetes, heart disease, vision loss, and cancer. It curbs strong hunger and unhealthy cravings and also promotes increased energy, satiety, and weight loss. The key to controlling blood sugar is eating meals with healthy fat, lean protein, and a slowly digested carbohydrate. Here are 9…

Supermarket Survival: 4 Must-Know Tips for Grocery Shopping Like a Pro

Time to sharpen your shopping skills. Let’s face it with a plethora of food to choose from it can be pretty tough to be supermarket savvy. Here are some supermarket survival strategies: 1.Never go to the supermarket hungry The grocery store can be very tempting, but if you’re full while shopping you are more likely to buy only the items that are…

How To: Keep Your Little Ones Healthy During Summer

As the end of the school year is nearing and summertime is just around the corner, I am sure many of you are busy making plans for your children over the summer. Whether it is enrolling your kids in camp, summer school or just letting them hangout at home, we need to begin planning for the summer. Although schools have gotten a…

6 Vegetables You Probably Aren’t Eating and Should

The majority of people not only fail to meet the daily dose of recommended vegetables, but actually consume less than two of the three to five servings that they should each day. The ones that do eat vegetables, are often eating the least nutritious (potatoes in the form of french fries, tomatoes in the form of ketchup, and iceberg lettuce). Variety is essential to…

How To: Enjoy Guilt-Free Birthday Parties for your Little Ones

Are you like me and cringe simply thinking about the foods served at children’s birthday parties? Sugary treats, multiple handfuls of salty chips, and unhealthy juice punches to name a few. While these tasty treats are fine to eat once in a while, kids can overload on these nutritional no-no’s if they attend a birthday bash weekly, as our kids so often do…

6 Reasons Your “Diet” Isn’t Working

  Have you been struggling to lose weight? Have you “plateaued” or have you not even reached a peak yet? There are many reasons why your “diet” isn’t working, and mainly it can be because you are dieting, restricting, and putting your body into starvation mode. These 6 tips will help get you rev your metabolism back into shape, and hopefully, put…

 Nutritionally Fit Meal Plans:  Low Cal

Not seeing the results despite all the time in the gym?  Diet is a large part of weight loss.  Following a customized meal plan helps eliminate the guess work.  Here’s a sample 1 day meal plan by Wendy Crump, R.D. Want to learn more about meal plans? Contact Wendy!

4 Ways to Hit Your Goal Weight for Summer

The season for shedding layers and showing a little more skin is finally here. While you may think you’re doing all you can to drop a couple pounds (sticking to your diet, exercising excessively, and skipping out on dessert), there are probably other, less visible factors that you aren’t taking into account. Here’s a couple things to think about that may be…

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10 Tips for a Healthy Holiday: 4th Of July

Summer is here! Don’t let the holiday or vacation get in the way of a healthy celebration! Here are 10 tips for a Healthy 4th of July!   1. Grill with Care:  Remember that you can’t tell just by looking when meat is done. Invest in a quality food thermometer and make sure you follow the temperature guides provided by foodsafety.gov. 2….