5 Tips to Get Teens Moving: New York City Certified Personal Trainer Motivates Teens To Get Moving

5 Tips to Get Teens Moving:  New York City Certified Personal Trainer Motivates Teens To Get Moving If you’re like many parents, you sometimes look at your pre-teen/teen and think, “Who are you?” When kids are young, they’re unstoppable. Remember the toddler days, falling into the couch after spending the 12 hours chasing a two-year old? Children are balls of energy, wanting to dance, roller blade, bike ride after a long day at school.  They can’t get enough of you! Then middle school hits, and it’s almost as if children were unplugged or a sci-fi energy sucker came and zapped the life out of them. Take a few minutes this week and watch the way middle schoolers and high schoolers move. Slow. Before, you were begging to slow down....

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8 Tips From New York City Nutritionist to Make Quick, Healthy, Economical School Lunches: A Little Imagination and Planning Goes a Long Way

Many things have changed over the years, from generation-to-generation. But the what-to-pack-for-lunch dilemma hasn’t. If you’re like most parents or caretakers, I bet the lunchbox is one thing you’re not looking forward to during the school year. Busy parents are taxed with figuring out what to pack for lunch that will be quick, economical, healthy and kid-approved! And I’d like to add eco-friendly. With all the pre-packaged goodies, it’s tempting to pick them up and toss them in a lunchbox. (I’ve done it!) Considering it takes anywhere from 450 – 1000 years for a plastic bottle to decompose http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/how-long-does-it-take-for-plastics-to-biodegrade.htm, adding ecological to the lunchbox...

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New York City certified personal trainer 7 tips to summer exercise

New York City Certified Personal Trainer Tip of the Month: Stay Hydrated, Stay Cool! July has seen record temperatures across the States and it doesn’t look like it will let up in August. Though the latest trends in exercise are “hot,” being hot yoga, hot pilates (I even saw an inferno pilates class advertised), exercising in the heat can be dangerous and even life-threatening. Heat puts stress on the body as both exercise and the outside environment heat your body’s core. Your body reacts, trying to cool down, by sending more blood to circulate through your skin, which, in turn, leaves less blood for your muscles and puts a strain on your heart. Add humidity to the mix, and sweat doesn’t evaporate quickly from your skin and your body temperature raises even higher. This is a perfect cocktail...

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New York City nutritionist 6 tips to buying and washing summer fruits and berries

New York City Nutritionist 6 Tips to Buying and Cleaning Summer Fruits and Berries:  Blueberries, Strawberries and Peaches … Oh my! Summer is a time of bright fruits and berries and decadent flavors. Unfortunately, some of my favorite flavors (peaches, strawberries, blueberries and cherries) are on The Environmental Working Group’s (http://www.ewg.org/)  “Dirty Dozen https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/?gclid=COWu5NLk_c0CFdcXgQodIkMFjQ  … a list of twelve of the most synthetic pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables. Here are my guidelines for buying, eating, and washing summer fruits for oodles of flavor and, hopefully, healthier eating. 1. Splurge on Organic; Save on Long-Term Side Effects: Up to 67 chemicals are found in some non-organic fruits and berries, strawberries topping...

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Five tips to love your body boost self esteem

5 Tips to Constructing a Better Body Self Esteem:  Certified Nutritionist and Personal Trainer Celebrates Bodies This is an all-too familiar scenario for 99% of us: We stand in the mirror and sigh, feeling inadequate. We look at the number on the scale and say, “If I lose just ten more pounds, I’ll be just right.” We don’t buy that pair of pants we love because we want to lose five more pounds or go down a size. We put off today because we think we’ll be better tomorrow. It’s no wonder. We are bombarded by images of “perfection” every single day. Advertisements, movies, TV shows, billboards, phamaceuticals … all form part of a billion-dollar industry that promotes body anxiety and hate. We are taught to feel shame. And both men and women...

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Exercise wonder drug New York City certified personal trainer

Certified Personal Trainer Shares the Most Effective Prescription on the Market: Exercise is a Wonder Drug! According to a 2015 article in The Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-us-prescription-drug-spending-2015-20160414-story.html, a report from IMS health estimated that in 2015 Americans spent $309.5 billion dollars on prescription medication.  US drug spending is about 40% of all drug expenditures worldwide. This has to do not only with the fact there are more medicated people in the United States, but also because Americans have higher drug prices. With pill bottles stacked high and bills even higher, I imagine that if any scientist could discover an inexpensive wonder drug to improve health – whether it be diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, or depression – it...

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5 tips to boost employee engagement in summer months

5 Tips on How to Keep Production Up When Your Employees Are in the Summer Slump: When Dreamy Summer Days Become an Employee Engagement Nightmare It’s hot. Every theater has released its mega blockbuster film. There’s a new feel to the air – the sounds of kids’ skateboards humming down sidewalks, buzz about the latest vacation plans, and the quiet of the office as people take their yearly leave. At work, the adrenaline from setting yearly goals is starting to wear. And employees are hitting that mid-year summer slump.  It’s not just a feeling. It’s reality. The summer slump affects production, project turnaround time, absenteeism, and focus. Many organizations chalk up the summer slump to being a necessary evil. They ride it out until...

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Five tips to celebrate men’shealth week new york city certified nutritionist personal trainer

Five Tips to Better Men’s Health: Celebrate National Men’s Health Week by Making Health, Fitness and Nutrition a Priority in the Lives of the Men We Love June 13 – 19 we celebrate National Men’s Health Week, and I bet there’s someone in your life that you wish would take better care of his health. Heart disease and cancer are the two leading causes of death in men of all races, and though there are some factors out of our control – genetics, race, ethnicity – many of the health problems that ail men can be avoided. With the spotlight on our favorite dads, grandpas, uncles, brothers, neighbors, teachers and sons this week, I am going to give you five simple tips to get the men in your life to lower their risk of Type II diabetes, heart...

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Prevent a stroke with 4 simple tips new york city certified dietitian

Prevent A Stroke Today With These 4 Simple Lifestyle Changes: New York City Certified Dietitian Teaches Clients to Take Control of Their Health Contemplating the possibility of a stroke is terrifying.  According to the American Stroke Association, every 40 seconds someone suffers a stroke. In the time it will take you to read this blog, approximately three or four people will have experienced a stroke. (More alarming is that every 4 minutes, someone dies from a stroke, making it the 5th leading cause of death in the United States.) Almost all of us know someone who has had a stroke. Considering that 800,000 people in the US alone suffer from a stroke (www.cdd.gov/stroke) , annually, it’s not surprising. Just seconds of a...

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7 exercise tips for expecting parents certified personal trainer new york city

7 Exercise Tips for Expecting Moms (and Dads) from Certified Personal Trainer in New York City: Keep Fit and Healthy Last week I discussed how to satisfy those pregnancy cravings with healthy options to incorporate must-have nutrients in your diet while expecting. This week, let’s talk exercise. As you know, pregnancy is divided into three periods – approximately 13 weeks each. The periods mark specific development times in your baby and physical changes in the mom.  During the first 13 weeks, a baby’s body and organ systems start developing. Though not much weight is gained during the first trimester, many moms feel pretty rotten – exhausted and nauseous.  During the second 13 weeks, babies start to grow skin and hair. A...

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Certified dietitian Nyc five nutritious pregnancy foods and tips

Certified Dietitian NYC Pre-natal Nutrition Advice: Healthy, Nutritional, Vitamin-Packed Snacks for All Pregnancy Cravings Pregnancy is strange. Certainly it’s miraculous. But ask any woman, and she’ll probably tell you it’s uncomfortable, exciting, daunting, terrifying, painful, overwhelming, nauseating, exhilarating. And, most definitely,  it’s … strange. First a woman grows an organ – the placenta . Then she grows another human being.  It’s the ultimate in awesome biology and chemistry and whoa! Add the “opinionmeter”, that doesn’t have an off switch, in which anybody who sees a woman with a baby belly is an expert on what she should eat, how much weight she should gain, what vitamins she needs, the baby needs … and pregnancy becomes incredibly confusing as well. Just Google...

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The ten minute abs of steel fallacy personal trainer nyc

NYC Personal Trainer Takes on the Empty Promises of Getting Washboard Abs: If It Sounds Too Good To Be True … Build Abs of Steel! The Ten-minute Six-pack Workout! Abs of Steel … Guaranteed! 30 Days to Abs of Steel! Everybody’s thinking summer, and many, in turn are thinking about bikinis and washboard abs. There are programs, challenges, and guarantees that feel like they’re too good to be true. Well, I hate to tell you this. They’re too good to be true. Honestly, if it only took ten minutes a day to get a six-pack, everybody out there would have abs of steel. So, what’s not working in these foolproof bikini body plans? Myths abound, and there’s a lot of money selling products or plans that make empty promises. Our abdomen muscles...

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Registered Personal Trainer in NYC Talks About the Building Bone Fallacy: It’s About Maintaining Bones, Not Building

Catchy headlines offer us solutions to everything. As we’re celebrating a month of foolish and foolproof headlines when it comes to diet and exercise, I couldn’t not discuss bone health. 5 Ways to Boost Bone Building Power. Weight-Bearing Exercises to Stop Osteoporosis.  8 Workouts for Strong Bones. These headlines, though have some truth to them, are incredibly misleading as exercise does not build strong bones, at least in not a significant amount. Being concerned about bone health is real. “[M]ore than 700,000 spinal fractures and more than 300,000 hip fractures occur annually in the United States ..” (Jane E. Brody, 12 Minutes of Yoga for Bone Health, well.blogs.nytimes.com, December 21, 2015).  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/12-minutes-of-yoga-for-stronger-bones/ ....

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