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denise b. Healthy Living Professional

asheville, North Carolina
Enjoys cooking vegetarian foods and eating healthy. Walks the dog every day and tries to do either aerobics, go to the gym or mountain hiking every day. Over 20 years experience in food and nutrition with expertise in prevention and wellness for people with a variety of health needs.
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Tomato Reminiscing by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Some of us celebrate the last bits of summer with a trip to the beach over Labor Day weekend, my husband and I celebrate here in the mountains with the last of the summer ... Read on »
Native Edibles by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating While hiking in the Canadian Rockies in Canada, we met a man who shared his knowledge about some edibles along the trail. I wanted to share some of these with you. The fir ... Read on »
Good to Grow – Celery by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating By Nicole Martinez – Guest Blogger & Student of Nutrition & Dietetics at Western Carolina University There are some foods I do not eat. Not because I don’t like them o ... Read on »
Tomato Tasting Competition! by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I promised that I would share the winning tomato! Growing an abundance of heirloom tomatoes, I wanted to test each variety to determine which one was the very tastiest. ... Read on »
Welcome to Earthly Edibles by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating After a long break from my blog, I am now ready to start up the keyboard again! Summer is always an inspirational time for me to write about seasonal fruits and vegetables ... Read on »
Here’s Tomatoes to Your Health by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Make a simple tomato salad using a variety or heirloom tomatoes and basil Get the tomatoes while they are still plentiful. This tomato salad includes purple Cher ... Read on »
Just peachy! by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating When I think of Labor Day weekend, two of the things that I think about are the fact that the peaches will become few and far between locally and the apples will be ... Read on »
It’s Blue Berry Time! by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Here is a sampling of wild blueberries in Western North Carolina It is wild blueberry season here in Western North Carolina. Be sure to save some for the bears a ... Read on »
Welcome to Early Edibles! by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I have just turned a new leaf! If you have read my previous posts, you may have noticed my focus on local, fresh plant -based foods.  There is now  a new name and look for ... Read on »
Week Three: How to Find Extra Time During the Holidays by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating How did you do over the Thanksgiving weekend? Take time to weigh in. If you had not done as well as you had hoped, just remember that there are a lot more weeks that ... Read on »
Holiday Survival Eating Challenge by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Week One: How Do I Measure Up? Get a Baseline of How You are Doing! How do you measure your success if you don’t know where you are? This is why you need an initial weigh ... Read on »
2009 Holiday Survival Food Challenge by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 2009 Holiday Survival Food Challenge Ready to maintain your weight this holiday season? Many of us gain least 1-2 pounds or more which is almost impossible to lose aft ... Read on »
Fishing for Good Health by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating In Western North Carolina, there is a vast availability of wonderful and healthy local food and I am going to share some of these with you in my series titled “Healthy Mount ... Read on »
Great Grains by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Although, I absolutely love fall but feel a little sad when summer ends. This past Tuesday on September 1st, I taught a cooking class titled “Great Grains” at the North Ca ... Read on »
Lighten Up The Grill by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating When thoughts come of summer, we often think of watermelons, picnics and the barbecue grill.  Preparing meals on the grill not only keeps the heat out of the kitchen but ... Read on »
Setting Reasonable Expectations by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Over the past several months, I have not kept up with my blog. During that time it had gone down due to technical difficulties and I had not even noticed. I can be tough on ... Read on »
Healthy Super Bowl Snacks by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The Super Bowl will be here in a few days. As I was reading the February issue of Eating Well magazine, I found a great article about snacks to eat during the big ... Read on »
New Year’s Goals for a Healthy Weight by denise b. Healthy Living Professional 1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating How did you do maintaining your weight over the holidays? It is not easy. If you maintained, you did a really good job! Even if you gained one or two pounds, you can ... Read on »
Holiday Brunch, Lunch or Dinner: Fix It and Forget It! by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating How did you do this week on maintaining your weight? Writing down what I eat over the past week has been a challenge for me but I have still ... Read on »
Healthy Fruit Desserts by denise b. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating In these uncertain times many of us would like to eat dessert first and with these fruity dessert ideas you can feel less guilty for doing so because y ... Read on »