Category Archives: Food and Nutrition

Five Ways to Speed Up Metabolism, Part 2…..

Boost your metabolism 2

Eat a Lunch Full of Protein as well as Carbohydrates. Many people skimp on lunch or skip lunch.  The noontime meal is important to keep your engine running throughout the day and to stave off evening hunger.  You will maintain a level blood sugar and prevent sinking spells midafternoon if you eat a balanced lunch.  […]

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5 Ways to Speed Up Your Metabolism Through Diet

Our Contributing Nutritionist, Catherine Kruppa, MS,CSSD, LD shares the first 5 of 10 tips to speed it up and start shedding the quarantine pounds

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1. Eat Breakfast Breakfast truly is the most important meal of the day.  Studies show that breakfast skippers on average consume more calories than breakfast eaters.  Skipping breakfast leads to decreased productivity, irritability and fatigue mid-afternoon.  Breakfast eaters can burn more than 300 calories more than non-eaters.  Solutions to common excuses: “I don’t have time.” […]

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How NOT to End This With that Much-Dreaded Weight Gain

How to Avoid the Covid-19 Extra Pounds by Catherine Kruppa, MS, RD, CSSD, LD, https://www.adviceforeating.com

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Staying at home, lack of routine and eating due to stress can easily lead many Americans to gain weight during this time of quarantine.  We all yearn for life to get back to normal, but what about getting back to BETTER?  Staying at home has taken away many of the obstacles that cause us to […]

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East Coast Cuisine Comes Down South With the Opening of Ouzo Bay & Loch Bar

Ouzo Bay

Restauranteur brothers Eric and Alex Smith have more than made a name for themselves in Baltimore, South Florida, and D.C., and now they have their sights set on Houston. The much-anticipated Atlas Restaurant Group‘s restaurants arrived just in time for the depths of summer dining, with Loch Bar and Ouzo Bay. This week I had […]

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The Joy of Gifting…for the Foodies

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Santa has his milk and cookies and the reindeer have their carrots. Now it’s time for the foodies in your life to get their tasty treats and appetite-inducing accessories! Sure, we all love food. BUT we also all know those in our lives who take their passion for provisions to a whole other level! Foodies […]

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Summer Salad Inspiration!

Are you in a salad rut?  If you are not one of those people that can open the fridge and use a little of this and a little of that to throw together a salad or are you making one of maybe three in our recipe arsenal then this post is for you! Heather here […]

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