Myth: Eating healthy is more expensive

10 ways to eat healthy on a budget

Run long, Run young

We know there are so many important health benefits that can come from endurance sports - especially my favorite, running. Outside Magazine just put out this great article on how running helps keep you young:

Stay Young by Running

Coffee: The caffeinated wonder beverage

This article written by a fellow dietitian describes the health benefits of coffee:

5 health reasons not to quit coffee

5-hour energy from only 5 calories & B-vitamins? A bunch of BS...

ConsumerLabs.com one of the most reliable independent labs that test supplements ran a test on 5-hour energy "shot" and this article talks about what they found... a while back I read the label after I've had several clients swear by this drink - and all it had was mega-doses of B-vitamins. While, yes, B-vitamins are involved in energy metabolism, they can't "give" you energy - only calories or caffeine can boost your energy levels. And what did they find was the miracle energy in this supplement: caffeine.
Read on:
Perks of Five-Hour Energy Drink Put to Test

Calculate your diet's carbon footprint

Did you know that eating healthy for your body is synonymous with eating for the health of our planet Earth? Eating more plant-based and less animal-based; eating less packaged, processed foods; and eating more locally helps lower our environmental impact.

The Bon Appétit Management Company has created a Low Carbon Diet Calculator that is designed to allow you to compare the relative carbon impacts of your food choices - check it out:

Low Carbon Diet Calculator

Bottled Water

The EWG (Environmental Working Group) came out with their latest grades on 170 bottled waters - what they found? Not that surprising - be more environmentally friendly: buy a reusable water bottle (such as Nalgene, KleenKanteen, Nathan, Camelback, etc.) and refill it with either tap water, water from your fridge or a drinking fountain.
Recycling plastic water bottles is earth-friendly, but buying a reusable lowers your carbon footprint even more!

Read more on the EWG's report: EWG Bottled Water 2011

For all of you Paleo diet enthusiasts

The Paleo diet is one that emphasizes meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots and nuts - essentially anything that could be "hunted or gathered" - while excluding grains and dairy products. There is controversy among healthcare providers, especially dietitians or nutrition professionals, of the nutrition adequacy of this diet that essentially eliminates two food groups. It has been recently disproved that ancient peoples did not consume grains:
Grains were a part of hunter-gathers diet

Additionally, many who believe the Paleo-diet (otherwise known as the caveman diet or Stone Age Diet) to be optimal for disease prevention and longevity, will say that ancient peoples died from many diseases preventable to mankind today or from predators thereby falsely shortening lifespan.

That begs the question: how can they claim the Paleo-diet to be optimal for disease prevention if these individuals never really lived long enough to experience the chronic disease that plague man today?