by Kodjo Hounnake | February 22nd, 2012 | No Comments
topic: Healthy Eating, Weight Loss | tags: breakfasts, budget, calories, diet, Greek yogurt, healthy bacteria, healthy recipes, healthy-eating, lose-weight, losing weight, low-fat diet, non-fat, nutrition, save money, saving money, snack, weight-loss, yogurt
Want a healthy snack that will fill you up without filling you out? Try plain, non-fat (or low-fat) Greek yogurt! It’s super-packed with calcium and live bacterial cultures and it’s low in calories, making it a smart snack choice.
by Jessica Harlan | January 28th, 2009 | No Comments
topic: Health & Wellness, Healthy Eating, Weight Loss | tags: cities lose weight, Detroit, heart disease, Lighten Up Brookly, losing weight, New York City, obesity, Oklahoma City, overweight, restaurant calorie counts, This City is Going on a Diet, Weight Watchers, weight-loss
When I lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., the borough’s rotund mayor, Marty Markowitz, launched a program called “Lighten Up,” which aimed to encourage residents to lose weight with him. There were weigh-in stations across the borough for weekly check-ins, and the neighborhood that collectively lost the most weight would appear on the Today Show. Since then, Lighten Up Brooklyn has turned into an annual program, made all the more important to its mayor, who had to undergo a stent procedure a couple of years ago because of heart problems.
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