by Prajakta Apte | May 7, 2017 | Nutrition Tips, obesity
5 Tips to Help Lower Your Blood Pressure Did you know? About 75 million American adults (32%) have high blood pressure—that’s 1 in every 3 adults. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a blood pressure reading above 140/90 mmHg (millimeters of mercury)....
by Prajakta Apte | Mar 19, 2017 | Nutrition Tips, obesity
How Stress Impacts Nutrition and What You Can Do to Manage It Everyone deals with stress at some point in their lives. In fact, 75 percent of adults reported experiencing moderate to high levels of stress in the past month and nearly half reported that their stress...
by Prajakta Apte | Dec 6, 2016 | Nutrition Tips, obesity
Are you the first one to dive into a pint of ice-cream after a bad breakup? Do you find that you tend to snack mindlessly when you’re stressed out at work? You’re not alone. In today’s busy life, most of us barely have enough time to think, let alone focus on how...
by Prajakta Apte | Nov 7, 2016 | Nutrition Tips, obesity
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. 29.1 million kids and adults in the U.S. have diabetes according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s about 1 out of every 11 people. Sadly, 1 out of every 4 people don’t even know they...
by Prajakta Apte | Nov 6, 2016 | Nutrition Tips, obesity
For those who don’t know, September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Since 1980, childhood obesity rates have more than doubled and now 1 in 3 children in the United States are overweight or obese according to healthfinder.gov. Childhood obesity puts...
