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Dried Plums: Your Grandma Was Right About Them
I’ve been working on a magazine article about the top healthy food trends for 2016, so this is a perfect time to team up with California Dried Plums, as people are finding so many creative ways to...
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Perfect Body Season is … Never In Season
Trying to lose weight over the holidays before you see any judgy relatives, grandkids who want to play, or the crotchety old uncle who said you’d never amount to much? Fuggetaboutid! Give yourself the...
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10 Tips to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
Every year about this time we are asked for our “best” tips to avoid weight gain over the holiday season. So every year we share what we believe to be some simple and easy tips. As many of you know,...
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Cellulite: How Do I Reduce It?
Special Diet and Exercise for Special Fat? Dear K and A: Can cellulite be tackled with specific exercises? Gaby What can I eat and what exercises can I do to reduce the appearance of cellulite?...
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Healthy Heart: Improve Your Circulation and Flexibility
You probably have a heart, but is it a strong one? Do you also have great circulation and flexible arteries? Bonnie Raitt was right when she sang Have a Heart. Hard to make that sound sexy and...
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A Workout Plan to Lose Weight When You Are a Caregiver
Alexandra Williams, MA and Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA It’s Ap-Parent We Care Dear Fun & Fit: My friend Patti and I have pledged to lose 50 pounds between us by March! As motivation, we have...
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Healthy Eating – Mind and Body: Notes from the IDEA World Fitness & Nutrition...
Alexandra Williams, MA You are What you Eat…and What you Think about What you Eat IDEA Co-Founder Kathie Davis is enjoying Attune cereal and a twin sandwich. It was a dark and gluten-free night… and...
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I Want to Get Fit, but How to Start?
Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA and Alexandra Williams, MA Exhausted from Working all Day Dear Fun and Fit: I am 55 and want to get back into a fitness routine. I am overweight – by 50 lbs and am having...
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7 Tips to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
Alexandra Williams, MA and Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA Just a few days till Thanksgiving. Want to avoid Thanks-gorging? Follow these 7 tips to avoid the holiday feast trap. Mini pumpkins: good-looking...
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3 Food Trends for 2014
Alexandra Williams, MA Natural Products Expo West For the fourth year in a row, Kymberly and I spent several days at the Natural Products Expo West, sampling delicious (and healthy) food and beauty...
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5 Foods to Eat to Defy Your Age (And 5 to Avoid)
Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA and Alexandra Williams, MA Diet choices you make affect your aging process. Are you eating to bring youth and vitality to your life? Or could you be ingesting foods that age...
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Energy: Can a 57 Year Old Have More Than a 20 Year Old?
Drums Alive helps keep me alive and lively! “How do you have so much energy?” a student asked me after my 8 a.m. cardio class one week. I am 57. My university students are about 20. What do you think...
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DietBetter: 4 percent Weight Loss in 4 weeks
Alexandra Williams, MA Many people (mostly women) come to us for advice about losing weight. There are so many different ways to lose weight; some healthy, some not. We talk about realistic, healthy...
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Good, Better, Best Bod Yet with DietBet
Alexandra Williams, MA Showing off the Bread Tumor I Need to Decrease We recently posted about starting a DietBet, which is an online game where you sign up to lose 4% of your body weight in a 4 week...
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I’m Losing Only 1 1/2 Pounds Per Week on my Diet; Is that Enough?
Dear K and A: Being a post-menopause person in her early 50s, my metabolism SUCKS. I’ve been working out 5 days a week, sometimes twice a day. I’ve been eating healthfully yet losing only 1 to 1/2...
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ShiftCon: Make a Shift Toward Better Health
Alexandra Williams, MA Living Centerpieces from FarmBox L.A. at ShiftCon designed by Teachable Mommy What happens if you bring together brands, bloggers and non-profits for a conference billed as “the...
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A Peek Into Vegan Living with Attila Hildmann
Alexandra Williams, MA Knowing I’m a vegetarian and fitness pro, a P.R. friend of mine recently sent me two books by Europe’s top-selling (almost 1 million copies) cookbook author, Attila Hildmann. The...
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Flatbread Recipe: Five Ingredient Curried Salmon with Cantaloupe
Alexandra Williams, MA At a recent breakfast hosted by Flatout Bread I was invited to create a recipe using one of their three new flatbread flavors. I decided to create a wrap using the Sea Salt and...
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Apple Cinnamon Crisp
Do you ever have people coming over for breakfast, have no idea what you want to bake, then just stare into the fridge for a while until an idea comes to mind? That happened to me this morning. I knew...
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12 Healthy Food Trends
Recently IDEA Food and Nutrition Tips, a magazine for fitness industry professionals, published an article I wrote for them about twelve healthy food trends. For this post, I thought I’d share a few...
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