August 7th, 2008 — , Cooking, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Mike @ Building Nutrition
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By Mike
Just like 90% of all college students (and even pre-college), I thrived on ramen noodles (aka “oodles of noodles”) due to their cheap price (5-10 cents per pack) and tummy-filling goodness. These aren’t those high quality bowls of ramen that you’d find in [...]
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August 6th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Mike @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. If you are one of the lucky families who has been able to purchase a Wii Fit (TM), then you should enter your family in the Wii Fit (TM) Family Challenge!! (websites: wiifitfamilychallenge.com or http://www.nickatnite.com/ads/nintendo/wiifit/).
You need to submit a 2 minute video to say why your family [...]
Continue reading → One Day Left To Enter to Become the “Wii Fit Fittest Family”!
July 10th, 2008 — , About Me, Broccoli, Health & Fitness, body fat, body mass index, cauliflower, fear of doctors, prime rib, spinach, vegetables, vice from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Health
Earlier this week Fit36 asked me What is Your Biggest Health/Fitness Vice? I’ve been muddling it through my head the last few days trying to come up with an answer.
Here’s what I came up with:
I’m not in bad health - My body mass index is around 23-24. My body fat is around 19%. [...]
Related StoresJuly 2nd, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness from Mike @ Building Nutrition
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The NY Times “Well” Blog has a list of 11 nutritious foods you aren’t eating, with some good information about each. I’d like to give my own take on each:
Beets: While you’re babies might be eating pureed beets out of a jar, most Americans are probably [...]
Related StoresJune 26th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Mike @ Building Nutrition
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By Mike
How many push-ups can you do? Well, right now I can’t do 100, but I plan on trying! And I’ll keep you abreast of my progress through that nifty bar graph on the sidebar.
At HundredPushUps.com, you’ll find an initial test and a 6-week training program that [...]
June 17th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Miscellaneous, Weight Management from Mike @ Building Nutrition
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I decided to play a new fitness game today. I happen to work on the 8th floor of a 12-story building. I get on the elevator in the basement (no “up” stair access on that level) every morning, then sit at my desk for the next [...]
June 17th, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness, Miscellaneous from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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As you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Starting your day with a good breakfast can help energize you and provide you with a lot of key nutrients. With that in mind, I like to test products to determine which ones [...]
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June 17th, 2008 — , Exercise, Health & Fitness, Pushups, Weekly Review, blogosphere, doubts, fitness health, fitness program, health network, initial test, muscles, nickel, person to person, push-ups, pushup, repetitions, six weeks, span, ups, wii, wii fit, workouts from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Health
There’s a lot of talk in the health blogosphere about people taking a 100 pushup challenge. It started when Five Cent Nickel spread the word to a couple of bloggers. Several of these bloggers happen to be part of the Fitness Health Network. As I am part of that network word got [...]
Related StoresJune 9th, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. One of the best parts of Saturdays during the summer is our local Farmer’s Market. Each Saturday (when we are free) during the summer, my husband and I enjoy walking to the Farmer’s Market, checking out the produce and purchasing some of our favorite foods. Not [...]
Related StoresJune 3rd, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Self-Support, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Many of us have the privilege of a daily lunch “hour” to eat, run errands, check email, etc. If you are in an environment in which your lunch break is truly your own, how do you spend it?
If you do not do so already, have you [...]
May 21st, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Miscellaneous, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. This week, all across America, Nintendo Wii is launching the Wii Fit, a video game that is geared to help you do just that–get fit! The game comes with a Balance Board, which is used for all exercises. You can do Yoga, aerobic exercises, balance exercises, [...]
Related StoresMay 19th, 2008 — , Eating Disorders, Health & Fitness from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Recently, I discussed what Anorexia Nervosa is and what you can do if you suspect that someone you know is anorexic.
When you have kids, many people advise you to check out what websites they seek out and are frequently on. You might have blocks up so [...]
May 6th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Motivation, Self-Support, bodies, diet, dieting, healthy eating, self-image from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. May 6th is International No Diet Day, a day that “encourages people to adopt healthy, fulfilling lifestyles, regardless of size and weight” (per the National Eating Disorder Information Centre based out of Canada). Although it is a Canadian day, I think that everyone, everywhere, can celebrate [...]
Related StoresMay 5th, 2008 — , Cooking, Foods, Health & Fitness from Mike @ Building Nutrition
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When cooking, how often do you substitute an ingredient because you realize that you don’t have it? I typically make sure I have all of the ingredients before I cook a meal or bake a dessert, and if I don’t have an ingredient, I don’t make [...]
May 2nd, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Osteoporosis, or a disease in which your bones become more porous and therefore break more easily, will affect 1 of 3 women and 1 of 5 men over the age of 50 years. Are you at risk, and what can you do to lessen your risk [...]
Related StoresApril 24th, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Are you plagued by the Fast Food Devil? Do you feel like you can’t get enough of Fast Food? What DO you do?
My husband loves fast food–KFC, Taco Bell, Arby’s, and Wendy’s are a few of his favorite places. Before we had our “no [...]
April 22nd, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Self-Support from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Have you ever wondered what the differences are between HMOs and PPOs and whether it’s even worth it to have health insurance? Have you wondered what routine tests you should get for your health and which ones you probably don’t need?
“Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely–Making [...]
April 22nd, 2008 — , Health & Fitness from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. I wanted to follow up from my Spring Cleaning post on cleaning out cupboards and the fridge/freezer. I forgot to mention that you should dispose of expired medications!!!
Go through your medicine cabinet (or wherever you keep your medications) and refrigerator (for example, I store Peptobismol® in [...]
Continue reading → Spring Cleaning: Disposing of Expired Medications
April 20th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, News from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Tuesday (April 22nd) is the 29th annual Earth Day. Take some time today to try to make the world–or at least your life–a better, cleaner place.
What are some nutrition-related Earth Day points?
Do you usually buy bottled water? One step you can take for Earth Day is [...]
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Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Tomorrow, April 21st, is the 112th Boston Marathon, run on Patriots’ Day. This race is the oldest annual city marathon in the world and is one of the most prestigious races in the world.
How this marathon differs from most marathons is that in order to run, [...]
April 14th, 2008 — , Cooking, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. How many of us want to eat healthy food but don’t have the time or the ability to cook “good” meals? Well, I stumbled upon a cookbook recently that gives a lot of “down-to-earth” recipes but that are healthy and tasty at the same time. [...]
Related StoresApril 8th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Self-Support, clothes, spring cleaning from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Recently, I wrote about how we need to clean out our cupboards, refrigerators, freezers, and spice racks and keep only those food items within date. Well, we also need to take time to clean out our clothes closets!
Although this post is not necessarily “nutrition” focused, I [...]
March 31st, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, cholesterol, eating right, mypyramid, national nutrition month, registered dietitian, saturated fat from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As March comes to a close, National Nutrition Month® also ends. This month’s theme, “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact” focused on getting your nutrition information from facts (i.e., evidence-based medicine) and not just “believe everything you hear.” There were 10 key messages this month, and I [...]
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March 30th, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Variety to your diet is key to a healthy lifestyle. However, sometimes we would like to know if our diet really does add up to give us the nutrients we need.
MyPyramid.Gov now has a “menu planner” feature (MyPyramid Tracker), that, once you’re logged in (for free), [...]
Continue reading → Does your diet meet the nutrition guidelines?
March 28th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, national nutrition month, nutrition, quiz from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. So, now that we’ve gone through all of the key messages for the month, with the “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact” theme, let’s see what you have learned! Click here to take a quiz and test your nutrition knowledge. I hope that by [...]
Related StoresMarch 28th, 2008 — , Exercise, Health & Fitness, Kids, calories, fitness, joints, jumping rope, muscle, osteoporosis, workout from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Remember when we were little and got our first jump rope? How fun was it to think of different jumps we could do? Who would think that jumping rope burns calories and is a great workout? So, instead of just giving your kids a jump [...]
March 25th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Kids, Meals, activities, children, family, fun, healthy, nutrition, vegetables from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. How can you bring nutrition into the home and teach the family about the importance of nutrition?
Bring Nutrition onto the Table
Eat breakfast each morning and make sure your kids eat a healthy breakfast too
Make a fruit and vegetable for lunch and dinner each day
Encourage your kids to [...]
March 24th, 2008 — , ADA, Health & Fitness, dietitian, games, national nutrition month, nutrition from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Nutrition isn’t always boring or stressful, I promise! We dietitians also like to have fun! And with that in mind, the American Dietetics Association has a few good games to play online in honor of National Nutrition Month®.
One game that is popular nowadays is Sudoku. The [...]
Continue reading → National Nutrition Month® Online Activities
March 23rd, 2008 — , Cooking, Foods, Health & Fitness, cholesterol, eggs, family history, heart, heart disease, heart health, mypyramid, registered dietitian from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Recently, my friend Joe emailed me with this question:
“When I was growing up, we used to have eggs all of the time for breakfast. When I got older, I stopped eating eggs because I didn’t think they were healthy; I heard that eggs had cholesterol, which is [...]
March 22nd, 2008 — , Exercise, Health & Fitness, elliptical trainer, family, fun, physical activity, running, treadmill, walk from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Take some time today to do something active with your family and/or friends. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2005) recommend that as adults we should engage in physical activity at least 30 minutes each day. Most of us think that we have to do something defined, [...]
Related StoresMarch 21st, 2008 — , ADA, Foods, Health & Fitness, american dietetic association, chocolate, dessert, national nutrition month, nutrition, recipe from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. So, it’s March Madness, and everyone around us is getting into the excitement of basketball playoffs and spring time. You may be hosting a spring gathering or may just want a quick and easy recipe to make for dinner so that you can spend time outside. The [...]
Related StoresMarch 19th, 2008 — , Cooking, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, fat, heart disease, saturated fat, trans fat, unsaturated fat from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As we continue along through National Nutrition Month®, our final key message is: Find the healthy fats when making food choices. By choosing polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fats, you can keep your saturated fats, trans fat, and cholesterol low.
Not all fats are created equal. Some fats can help [...]
March 19th, 2008 — , ADA, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, carbs, diet, dietitian, fat, fiber, food label, healthy, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrients, nutrition, nutrition label, protein, registered dietitian, salt, saturated fat, sodium, trans fat, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. The next to last key message being promoted for National Nutrition Month® 2008 is:
Read food labels to get nutrition facts that help you make smart food choices quickly and easily.
It is important to know how to read a food label in order to know [...]
March 18th, 2008 — , Cooking, Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, cancer, chocolate, heart disease, love, milk, nutrient, nutrients, recipe, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Walk into most stores this time of year, and all you see is chocolate. I must admit, I love chocolate and eat some every day (everything in moderation, right?). This week is American Chocolate Week, and in celebration of this week, let’s talk about the [...]
Related StoresMarch 16th, 2008 — , Cooking, Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, calories, eating, fat, healthy, heart, irish, nutrition, nutritional value, physical activity, recipe, salt, saturated fat, vegetables from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Many of you may be cooking Irish food today and/or eating/drinking Irish cuisine. I have a few strategies to this feast day:
Eat whatever you want, treating today as a “cheat day”, and not change your physical activity
Eat whatever you want, treating today [...]
Continue reading → Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Traditional Irish Foods & Nutrition
March 16th, 2008 — , Exercise, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, physical activity, walk from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. How many times are you at work, standing in line for the elevator? How often do you take the elevator or escalator at the mall or at the workplace instead of taking the stairs? For those of us who are able to take the stairs, why don’t [...]
Related StoresMarch 15th, 2008 — , Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, USDA, breakfast, dessert, fat, frozen, fruit, healthy, ice cream, nutrient, nutrients, nutrition, nutritional value, sodium, vegetables, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. I often get questions as to whether frozen foods are as nutritious as fresh foods. Many times, they are. What foods can you buy frozen and not worry about losing nutritional value, and what should you buy fresh?
Fruits and Vegetables
These two food groups are just [...]
March 13th, 2008 — , Exercise, Health & Fitness, Sleep, Stress Management, Weight Management, calories, diet, eating, energy, fat, goals, hydration, nutrient, nutrients, training, weight loss from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Watching The Biggest Loser each week, I notice that contestants lose between 0-15 pounds a week (and even these numbers vary). For the average person trying to lose weight, are these numbers realistic? And, do you, the viewer of The Biggest Loser, get discouraged when [...]
Related StoresMarch 12th, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, Research, cancer, colon, colorectal, diet, disease, fat, fiber, healthy, national nutrition month, nutrition, smoking from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Although I have been talking a lot about National Nutrition Month®, it is not the only event in March! Another theme for this month is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and since cancer and nutrition are related, I wanted to take some time to focus on this disease.
What [...]
March 11th, 2008 — , ADA, Food, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, carbohydrate, diet, eating, fiber, healthy, national nutrition month, nutrient, nutrients, nutrition, protein, vegetables, weight gain from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Welcome back to yet another day of National Nutrition Month®! To keep with the theme of “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact”, I would like to discuss another key message (this is key 8 of 10, so we’re almost done!):
Don’t fall prey to food myths and [...]
March 10th, 2008 — , Foods, Health & Fitness, USDA, eating, food safety, healthy, national nutrition month, vegetables from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. We are continuing with National Nutrition Month with several key points. Today, I would like to discuss the topic of handling food properly:
Prepare, handle, and store food properly to keep you and your family safe from food-borne illness.
So often we think about the healthiness of the foods [...]
March 9th, 2008 — , Forever Diet, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, children from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. That’s right! Today is the first annual Registered Dietitian Day, so if you see your friendly dietitian today, wish him or her a happy day! And no, I didn’t make this day up.
On this day, think of taking care of your nutritional health and schedule an appointment [...]
Continue reading → Happy Registered Dietitian Day! And 10 Reasons to See an RD
March 8th, 2008 — , Food, Forever Diet, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, breakfast, diet, eating, healthy, heart, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrition, unhealthy from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. The theme of National Nutrition Month® is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact”. The past few days, we have been discussing the key messages to this month’s theme. Another key message is:
Look at the big picture: No single food or meal makes or breaks a healthful [...]
March 7th, 2008 — , Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, american dietetic association, calories, chocolate, diet, eating, fiber, healthy, healthy eating, ice cream, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrient, nutrients, nutrition, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. I hope that you’re enjoying National Nutrition Month® as much as I am! As you may remember, the theme for this month is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact“. On that note, one of the key messages from the American Dietetic Association is:
“Think nutrient-rich rather than [...]
March 6th, 2008 — , Exercise, Forever Diet, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, diet, disease, eat healthy, energy, fitness, heart, marathon, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrition, physical, physical activity, walk from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. March is National Nutrition Month® and Building Nutrition will be posting daily on various nutrition topics. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS Feed or our email newsletters to stay up-to-date.
As you may remember, the nutrition theme for this month is “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact“. [...]