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Healthy Food Review MGD 64 Light Beer by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,In a bit of a departure for The Healthy Food Review, today we're looking at the super low calorie, low carb light beer MGD 64 from Miller. I am going to assume everyone reading this review is at least of drinking age. If not, please have a responsible adult in your household read it instead.Now I will tell you straight up that I'm not a... Read on »

Healthy Halloween Trick Or Treat Tips by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,Thinking about all the potential Halloween candy that is about to be given out this Friday, I am reminded of one of my first-hand accounts about what chocolate and sugar can do to kids' bodies.My niece, who was 3 at the time, was really into the movie Shrek, so trying to be the cool Aunt in for a visit, I had bought her a teeny-tiny sampl... Read on »

Favorite Healthy Frozen Food Picks What's In My Freezer by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,After my recent post about Healthy Eating Tips: Healthy Dinners For The Lazy ended up being very popular, I got a lot of readers asking me what healthy frozen food was in my freezer?You want it, you got it! (Yes that's a Bryan Adams reference.) So in the interest in helping you learn by example :) here's the current list in no order of p... Read on »

Happy Vegetarian Awareness Month Flexitarians by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,For those of you who don't know, October is Vegetarian Awareness Month. I got my start ten years ago going meatless first as a full-fledged vegetarian and then after a year I converted to what is today known as a flexitarian diet.A flexitarian diet is the most tolerant and forgiving form of meatless eating. There are people who call the... Read on »

Healthy Eating Tips Healthy Dinners For The Lazy by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking a healthy dinner. And when you start paying too much attention to the fast food ads on TV, or start weakening and are ready to pull into a drive-thru or "to go" restaurant space on your way home, it's easy to get into trouble that ends up showing up on your bathroom scale if you're not... Read on »

Healthy Food Review Pop Chips by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,I first spotted Pop Chips when I was doing one of my "let's roam up and down the aisles and see what's new" trips to my local natural foods store. Yes I have no life :)Anyway, there are a lot of great low fat and low calorie crunchy snack choices out there, but personally I had yet to find one that was a great barbecue flavor w... Read on »

Pet Peeves About Fellow Gym Members - A Public Service Message by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,Those of you who are readers of The Healthy Food Review (thanks!) or who follow me on Twitter know that I do my best to lead an active life, and I love to go the gym. Yesterday, it just seemed like one of those days when more than the fair share of my fellow gym members were being annoying (although I am sure most did not realize it).S... Read on »

Flexitarian Diets What Are They And Are They For You by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,I tend to freely use the term flexitarian diet, or flexitarian healthy eating style, and don't always realize for those of you who have not read my book Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too! (or at least the free book excerpt I offer) that you may not know what the heck I am talking about. It happened today when I was particip... Read on »

Healthy Food Review Barbaras Bakery Shredded Oats Cereal Vanilla Almond by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,This Barbara's Bakery Shredded Oats Cereal is one of those healthy, fun, not just for breakfast cereals. It's firm texture and individual piece size hold up to travel, and the delicious vanilla almond oat taste makes it a great snack cereal--no milk needed. It's like having oatmeal on the go, just pop a portion into a ziploc bag and off... Read on »

Organic Food Shopping Tips by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,The opportunity to buy organic food has never been greater as even most supermarkets will at least pay lip service to organic food offerings by having a small section in their stores. But let's face it, buying organic food is always going to be more expensive. In these tougher economic times, just how much of what you buy needs to be or... Read on »

Wal-Mart Diet Exists According To New Study by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,As I always say, you have to just love the way the media spins research. According to a new study from two University researchers (hopefully not sponsored by Wal-Mart, I'm not too cynical am I) having a Wal-Mart in your area could help you lose weight. People who live near a regular Wal-Mart are connected with a .5 pound weight loss. T... Read on »

Wendys Baconator Are You Kidding Me by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,I was watching the first NFL football kickoff game to see if my Super Bowl champion New York Giants could pick it up where they left off. I was not disappointed.What was disappointing was one of the few commercials I happened to catch was for Wendy's new dietary monstrosity The Baconator. First the ad mocks those who are vegetarians pr... Read on »

Mommy I Want Junk Food Problem Kids' Diets And What To Do About Them by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,I was recently traveling in the Northeast back to my NYC roots (yes thats' why I hadn't posted in a bit). I was walking along the Northern New Jersey shore on a beautiful day when the following took place. Two Moms were pushing toddlers in their strollers with two slightly older children--maybe about age six or so--walking alongside. I ... Read on »

Healthy Food Review Annie's Organic Whole Wheat Shells And White Cheddar by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,In my opinion, the basic ingredient in any healthy food makeover of favorite comfort food macaroni and cheese, has to be Annie's Organic Whole Wheat Shells And White Cheddar. I know that since Annie's uses shells instead of macaroni shaped pasta, that this technically takes the macaroni out of the macaroni and cheese. But let... Read on »

Healthy Eating Flexitarian Style Is A Way To Go Green by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,I've always thought about having a mostly meatless, flexitarian style of eating from a health perspective, but a health news story tonight on Yahoo made me think of healthy eating a whole new way. Apparently, giving up, or at least substantially reducing your meat intake, is eco-friendly since according to a study from Germany, meat eater... Read on »

Eating Out Healthy Starbucks Vivanno Nourishing Blends by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All, So I'm at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas early last Saturday morning, and as much as I was into the material, I am not a morning person--especially a weekend morning person. Fortunately, the Las Vegas Convention Center did have an on-site Starbucks, so relief was at hand. I went on line thinking I would have my usual Mocha Light for ... Read on »

Jennifer Love Hewitt Weight Loss What Did You Do? by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Questions & Answers in Healthy Eating Hi All, Darn peer pressure, it even works on celebrities like Jennifer Love Hewitt. Back in January when I first started The Healthy Food Review blog, I wrote a popular post called It's A Sad Day When Celebrities Have To Explain Their Weight Gain To The Media in support of Jennifer Love Hewitt's "fuller figure" admist a media storm of, as un... Read on »

The Bacon Makeover - No Such Thing As Food Sinning by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All, I recently came across an interesting blog post where the person admitted that she has "sinned" because she broke down and had a bunch of bacon panned fried in margarine. We'll address how we can give the bacon a healthy food makeover in a moment, but I was more concerned about the comment about food sinning. It's this whole c... Read on »

Healthy Food Review Weight Watchers Ice Cream by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,I've never been on Weight Watchers, but you don't have to be to enjoy their amazing ice cream makeovers. Weight Watchers has a line of ice cream sundaes under their Smart Ones product line that are decadent stunners.My favorite (and my husband's) is the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream sundae at 170 calories, 3 grams of fat and... Read on »

Working Out It's Never Too Late To Get Into Fitness by Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,I recently had fun coaching my mother-in-law who is a Senior on how to use a treadmill and start working out regularly. She recently lost about 20 pounds on the Weight Watchers program and is now open to fitness concepts, and ready to start adding exercise to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and leave behind her sedentary ways. S... Read on »

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