By: Brigitte Coburn
Ponte Vedra High School
Over the last year, I slowly started eating worse and worse and exercising less and less. My typical daily food intake for the summer of ’08 was a bagel sandwich for breakfast, chicken wings and fries for lunch, a bag of chips for a snack and topped off with a [...]
by Susan M. Kleiner, PhD, RD, FACN, CNS, FISSN
You’ve decided to make the switch to some style of a vegetarian diet. Will your exercise performance suffer? What about your energy levels? Can you still develop body-firming muscle even though you’re not eating animal protein?
Put your fears aside. Vegetarian diets are typically rich in carbohydrates, [...]
by Susan M. Kleiner, PhD, RD, FACN, CNS, FISSN
Think about how you would like to look and feel. Imagine yourself with a body that’s fit and firm, with just the right amount of muscle. Imagine the joy of having high strength and energy day in and day out.
Keep those images in your mind’s eye. Those [...]
