Avoiding Weekend Weight Gain Universal truth: the weekend always seems like the perfect opportunity to really live out all of our healthy aims. We’ll sleep in, we tell ourselves. We’ll have more time to exercise or to cook healthy meals. Finally, we’ll have the chance to kick back and de-stress. Yet, how often does the reality end…
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Pack a Lunch with a Punch In our house the new school year begins end of August. This means the first two weeks of August leaves me little time to buy back-to-school supplies, clothes, AND go grocery shopping for lunches. Like all parents, I want my kids to have a successful school year. If that’s…
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Behind Bars: The Truth About Granola Bars Bars — energy bars, protein bars, breakfast bars and more — have never been hotter, whether for a meal replacement, a snack on the go, or a pre- or post-workout energy boost. However, they are not necessarily health food. If a bar is your choice, pick carefully to…
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5 Reasons to Stop Eating Lunch at Your Desk Every day around 67 percent of office workers are eating lunch at their desks. The impetus to work through the midday meal is clear: To your boss, eating in front of your computer shows commitment. To you, typing between forkfuls of salad is hopefully a quicker…
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Tips To Eat Healthfully When Traveling for Business Traveling for business can be challenging, with extended hours on a plane, hectic agendas and long meetings with colleagues. You barely have time to sleep, let alone think about how you will find healthy foods to eat, but there are some steps you can take to eat…
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Coconut Oil and Olive Oil, A Face-Off Coconut oil is the latest miracle food. If you believe popular wellness websites, it’s good for just about everything – from making your teeth whiter, skin more luminous and hair shinier to boosting your brain and bone health and treatment for yeast infections. However, according to the Food…
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Can Pasta help me lose weight? If you’ve been cutting pasta out of your diet because of its fattening reputation, you may no longer have to. A recent study conducted by Italian scientists found that it does not contribute to obesity; in fact, it can actually help you bring down your body mass index. This is…
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Amazing Experience From The Start – Christina Henderson, Testimonial Dwayne and Vertex Fitness was and amazing experience from the start, so welcoming and encouraging. I was nervous and intimated in the days leading up to my first session but all of those fears went away as soon as we started talking. You can’t beat the personalized…
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5 Mistakes You’re Making When It Comes to Salad Salad, the typical go-to seemingly healthy meal of choice when you’re trying to stick to clean eating. But, there are so many ways to sabotage your seemingly healthy meal of choice with not-so-good-for-you ingredients and add-ons. For instance: piling on loads of cheese and croutons, or…
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Coconut Water Better Than Sports Drinks? Coconut water has become the thirst quencher du jour. Low in calories, naturally fat- and cholesterol free, more potassium than four bananas, and super hydrating – these are just a few of the many benefits ascribed to America’s latest health craze: coconut water. It’s now a permanent fixture in the coolers of convenience…
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