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Tweet This Post First of all, today is my first “Foodie Friday” blog post! I’m starting “Foodie Friday” posts to combine my passion for nutrition and my love of delicious food. I will show you how you CAN have both. As a working mom, I also know that most of us don’t have time [...]
6 Easy Ways to Be More Active
Tweet This Post Guidelines suggest that we should engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most days of the week to reduce the risk of chronic disease, or 60 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most days of the week to help manage body weight and prevent gradual, unhealthy weight [...]
Is Your Mate Making you Fat?
Tweet This Post When you’re dating someone, you feel like the luckiest person in the world. You’re in love. You’re happy. But as your love and happiness expands, is your waistline also expanding? According to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, researchers found that both men and women are at risk of being [...]
Diet Quiz Part 2
Tweet This Post Ready for another round of Diet Quiz? (Check out Diet Quiz Part I in case you missed it!!) Test your Diet IQ by deciding whether these common health claims are truth or myth: 1. You can get a good workout in 30 minutes or less True. Many of us tend to [...]
Mitzi Meets Jilian Michaels in NYC
Tweet This Post Last week I was in NYC for business and my All-Pro Diet co-author and Atlanta Falcon Tony Gonzalez and NY Jet Tony Richardson invited me to their NFL Play 60 Event in Central Park. The two Tony’s were working with a group of girls at the event to promote 60 minutes [...]
Top 5 Foods to Avoid During Allergy Season
Tweet This Post It’s that time of the year again. When you can’t help but wonder what you could possibly do to relieve spring allergy symptoms without having to feel drowsy from anti-allergy medications. According to studies, more than one-third of individuals who have seasonal allergies experience oral allergy syndrome (OAS) which involves itchiness [...]
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Do You Have A Fat Phobia?
Tweet This Post It seems there is always a something to pick on in the world of nutrition; carbohydrates, proteins, and fats have all had their turn as the “bad” nutrient at one time or another. Fat is a favorite one to demonize, since there are both healthy and unhealthy sources of fat in [...]
Color Your Plate
Tweet This Post Brightly colored fruits and vegetables do more than make a beautiful dish; the colors are code for the nutrients packed within these foods. The colors are from a group of nutrients called carotenoids, which are substances that provide additional health benefits above the essential vitamins and minerals labeled on packages. Now [...]
Latin Rubbed Pork Tenderloin
Tweet This Post This is one of my family’s favorite recipes for pork tenderloin which is just as lean as a skinless chicken breast. That’s right, a 3-oz serving of pork tenderloin only has 2.98 grams of fat which is slightly less than 3 oz of skinless chicken breasts. I love making this pork [...]
Mitzi’s NEW 7 Super Spices Giveaway!
Tweet This Post Woohoo…it is giveaway time! I’m so excited to announce this fabulous contest which will have 3 LUCKY WINNERS! First, in case you don’t know, I wrote a “7 Super Spices” blog post about all the benefits of eating these spices. I received tons of retweets of my blog post via my Twitter [...]
