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Physician Advises: Skip the Grains But Not the Treats This Holiday Season Cardiologist, Best-Selling Author Shares  2 Grain-Free Recipes At a time when we most want to look and feel our best, we seem to do everything possible to ensure we don’t, says cardiologist Dr. William Davis. “The weather starts to change and we reach for the pumpkin-spice cookies, cider doughnuts and beer, which launches us into processed carbohydrates season,” says Dr. Davis, author of “Wheat Belly Total Health,” ( www.wheatbellyblog.com ), the latest in his bestselling “Wheat Belly” series. “They make us tired and sluggish when we especially need energy as we prepare for all the fun stuff and preparation that lead up to Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hannukah, and they cause us to gain weight, which we immediately pledge to shed come New Year’s.”   People have been taught that the refined, processed carbohydrates in foods like white rice, white bread and traditionally baked goods are “ba

I love a smoothie in the morning, or the afternoon for that matter! But sometimes it's a mad rush in the morning and I just don't have time to make a smoothie. That's why this idea is so brilliant (so why didn't I think of it??) Prepare your smoothies ahead of time and freeze the whole lot of it! Not the pre-made smoothie, but all the "raw" ingredients. Find all the info here . This is just such a simple but brilliant idea. Some of my favorite smoothie add-ins are things like Spinach, Pineapple and plain greek yogurt. What are yours? I hope  you enjoy this link as much as I did, so get cracking!

If  you're still thinking about working out in a Fat Burning Zone or an Aerobic Zone for weight loss as opposed to cardiovascular improvement, you may want to rethink that. Nowadays there is so much research to prove that working out HARD at a high intensity will get you burning lots of calories, burning FAT and getting you FIT. Here are a few for your light reading: http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v32/n4/full/0803781a.html http://www.ideafit.com/fitness-library/the-fat-burning-zone http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8231750 Essentially, all of these articles are showing how during their studies, people who worked out a a high intensity for short bursts (High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT) burnt off more fat those people that worked out at a steady state, or consistent level; a lower level. How do you like to work out?