Live Fit and Sore

Category: Health/Nutrition

  • Saturdays in Suburbia

    Some of you may remember that I was scheduled for the Bluemont Vineyard 5k today. Well – Scott had to go to NYC yesterday for business and will not be home until this afternoon – so I had to bow out of it. I was bummed until yesterday when I realized that Thursday’s Plumbline workout…

  • Jamie Oliver Launches Online Campaign For Healthy Eating in Schools

    Chef Jamie Oliver (of Naked Chef fame) has launched a cross-platform campaign called Jamie’s Food Revolution in an attempt to overhaul the way kids eat in America. Today is Food Revolution Friday, and Oliver is taking to the web in order to get folks to sign his petition to improve food in school cafeterias via…

  • Notable News

    EAT: DIY Greek Style Yogurt So many of us eat Greek Yogurt. It can be really expensive and I have found the newer ‘cheaper’ versions – like from Yoplait – are actually a small bit higher in calories and a small bit lower in protein. I have never tried to make my own but it…

  • Notable News

    Coffee As An Antioxidant Source – How Good Is It? The results of a long-term study on the impact of coffee consumption on aggressive prostate cancer indicate there may be tangible health benefits.  A study that lasted 20-years and included nearly 50,000 men showed that regular coffee consumption reduced the risk of developing aggressive prostate…

  • No Sweet Surprise in my book

    Has anyone see a commercial or visited this site: sweetsurprise.com? It’s all about high fructose corn syrup and how it has not been proven to be any more linked to obesity rates than sugar and both are similarly metabolized by the body. Ok, first off – i love how the Corn Refiners Association is behind…

  • I am losing patience…

    So i am going to be honest here — being so incapacitated is getting me depressed. I know it’s only been 3 days but when you are someone who is used to being so active — not being able to move around has a lot of power to affect you mood. I am going to…

  • aol. 5k Run

    aol. is very near and dear to my heart. They are starting a 5k Spring Into Summer 5k and fun run on Sunday, May 16th. The Inaugural AOL Spring into Summer 5k and Fun Run will be held on May 16, 2010 at AOL’s Dulles campus in commemoration of AOL’s 25th Anniversary. Proceeds from the…

  • Woe is I

    Oh how I wish I could do yesterday over. Back pain is bad and the meds the doctor gave me knock me out — so in between sleeping, I have been getting up to walk around so I don’t stiffen up. Needless to say, I did not workout this morning. I am hoping a rest…

  • Ten Things You Didn’t Know Are In the Health Care Bill

    I’m sure it’s not so simple, so please read with your own comfort level of skepticism… Menu labeling. Restaurants with over 20 employees must include calorie counts and other nutrition information on the menu. SWAG reporting. Doctors must report valuable goodies they receive from health vendors. Right to Pump. New moms must be given space…

  • Visiting a National Park

    So why don’t we eliminate the junk food machines from schools and add in a simple 30-minute break for fitness during the school day. Even if it meant extending the school day for 30-minutes, most evidence has shown that allowing kids a break during the school day to burn off stress and energy would result…