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Melanie J. Healthy Living Professional

Las Vegas, Nevada
Melanie R. Jordan, is a Health Coach, Food Makeover Specialist and Author of "Have Your... Full Bio
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Pet Peeves About Fellow Gym Members - A Public Service Message by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 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. ... Read on »
A Healthy Tan For Summer Shows Off Healthy Eating Habits by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Recreation Hi All, While I normally write about healthy eating, Summer is around the corner (who am I kidding--in Las Vegas it's officially here as the mercury topped 107 degrees today) ... Read on »
Acesulfame Potassium Is It Safe by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 2 Comments Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating If you're like me, you drink a lot of zero-calorie and low-calorie beverages that tend to have artificial sweeteners in them. My preference is always towards those that use s ... Read on »
Ask The Healthy Eating Coach Are 100 Calorie Snack Packs Healthy by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Question: It seems there a million of those 100 calorie pre-packaged food products out there, but are they really healthy?Answer From Healthy Eating Coach Melanie Jordan: ... Read on »
BlenderBottle My New Favorite Healthy Lifestyle Product by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I've recently been making some tweaks in my healthy eating style, and that includes a return to having protein shakes. The problem was, I couldn't find pre-made protein shake ... Read on »
Bottled Water Debate...Oh Please! by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,Bottled water is getting more controversial by the day, and there is apparently a bottled water debate going on as we speak.  Municipalities are trying to phase out bot ... Read on »
Coping With Comfort Food Bingeing, Stressed Monkeys Eat More Too by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All, Just watched an interesting ABC news report video that shows a study about how comfort food binge eating might be biological because stressed monkeys eat more: http:/ ... Read on »
Dirty, Germy Lemons Exposed At Restaurants by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All, Frankly I thought my husband was turning into Niles Crane from Frasier when he recently announced that he was no longer allowing lemon slices in his standard "water w ... Read on »
Does Healthy Living Overcome Fat Genes? by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Questions & Answers in Weight loss Hi All, Like many people, bad genes run in the family for many diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer, as well as a tendency to be overweight. I can definitely rela ... Read on »
Eating Out Healthy KFC Grilled Chicken by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating When KFC decided to do its free samples of its new KFC Grilled Chicken recently, I decided that it would be worth a try. That might sound funny coming from someone who eats me ... Read on »
Eating Out Healthy Long John Silver's Freshside Grill by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I know what you're thinking, Long John Silver's with all that deeply fried fish--how can that be eating out healthy?Well, there is an undiscovered side to Long John Silver's t ... Read on »
Eating Out Healthy Starbucks Vivanno Nourishing Blends by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 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 ... Read on »
Eating Out Healthy The Burger King BK Veggie Burger by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I know Burger King and eating out healthy in the same title seems to be a typo, but while I'm not big into eating fast food, when you're traveling, sometimes one of the few fo ... Read on »
Favorite Healthy Frozen Food Picks What's In My Freezer by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 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 ... Read on »
Fitness Tips Exergaming With Wii And Dance Dance Revolution Video Games by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Hi All, Video games often get picked on for encouraging sedentary children and couch potato adult geeks. However, it doesn't have to be the case. Enter "Exergaming"--worki ... Read on »
Fitness Tips How Not To Be Annoying In Gym Class by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Where has the time gone? I've been on a bit of a hiatus with a badly strained muscle but I'm finally back at the gym in kickboxing and Zumba class. And while I was there thi ... Read on »
Fitness Tips Taking The Boredom Out Of Treadmill Walking And Running by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,Hot Summer temperatures and/or high humidity may mean that instead of doing your walking workouts and running workouts outdoors like you might at other times of the yea ... Read on »
Fitness Tips Walking Cuts Chances Of Needing Medication by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Hi All,If you haven't already been including a walking program as part of a healthy overall lifestyle, besides the usual great reasons for doing so, perhaps the findings from ... Read on »
Fitness Tips: 5 Common Weight Lifting Mistakes by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Exercise Hi All, Weight lifting is one of my favorite gym activities. While I will use certain machines, I especially like to use free weights. I think that everyone should do some ... Read on »
Flexitarian Diets What Are They And Are They For You by Melanie J. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 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 Chees ... Read on »