I have been getting a lot of questions, both in my practice and from you through this site, about how to calculate your protein needs.  The answer is going to require a little math homework but I’ll try to keep it simple. For weight loss, I find that people do best when they consume about [...]

You’ve probably already heard about the health benefits of many of the foods below, but you might not know how much better they can be when paired up with the right nutrition partner.  Eating or drinking them alone is still a terrific idea, but you can get even more health benefits with a few tasty [...]

Americans are confused about carbohydrates.  In the 80s, at the height of the low-fat craze, diet ‘experts’ told us we could eat all the carbohydrates we wanted as long as we avoided fat.  And yet we got fatter.  In the 90s, thanks in large part to the comeback of the Atkins diet, bread and pasta [...]

Metabolism refers to all energy creating and energy consuming reactions in the body.  When most of us think about metabolism, however, we think about the number of calories, as energy, that we burn each day.  Some people seem to have a ‘fast’ metabolism (these are the folks you envy who can devour huge portions of [...]

With a new ‘hot’ diet out almost every month, knowing where to start when it comes to weight loss can be challenging.  It is important to understand that there is no one size fits all when it comes to weight loss.  You need to find an approach that fits your lifestyle to ensure that you [...]