Bellevue Nutritionist, Angela Pifer, writes: Worried about the effects of the holidays on your waistline? Here are 6 tried and true quick tip strategies that I recommend in my practice that will help your waistline love the holidays as much as you do. 1. Offer to bring a healthy dish to holiday parties If you’reRead the rest of this entry…
Stocking A Healthy Pantry
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Nutrition Basics
Are you tired of being overwhelmed with complicated and often conflicting messages from the diet and health industry? This blog is about learning to let go of gimmicky eating and discovering how easy making healthy food choices can be!
About Angela Pifer
I'm a certified nutritionist, blogger, writer, and mom. My passion is teaching people how to live a healthy diet-free life. Most of us don't grow up with an education in nutrition. The food companies and the diet industry take advantage of this fact by marketing foods and products as healthy, when they're not. Eating healthy shouldn't and isn't a complicated process. I want to help people make sense of this information by transforming these conflicting messages into a simple straight forward plan of action towards better health.
Can you really afford to be sick this year? Five Steps to Keeping the Flu at Bay
October 22nd, 2009 by Angela, NutritionistIt’s not every day that the federal government offers guidelines to small businesses in preparation for the flu season. Since the H1N1 outbreak is fore casted to reach a world pandemic, this is not your every day flu. The guidelines listed at flu.gov are meant to help companies develop response and planning strategies around employeeRead the rest of this entry…
Eating Triggers
September 9th, 2009 by Angela, NutritionistMost of us experience eating triggers every day. It may be the smell of coffee brewing in the morning, or that Mrs. Smith’s apple pie commercial on television, or even the sight of the Golden Arches as we drive home from work. Eating triggers are everywhere and they are real. Each of these triggers canRead the rest of this entry…
The Second Most Important Meal of the Day
August 28th, 2009 by Angela, NutritionistYou may be surprised to hear that the second most important meal of the day is a midmorning snack. The reason for this is simple: you want to balance the amount of calories you take in before lunch, with the calories you take in after lunch. By spreading your calories out evenly across the dayRead the rest of this entry…
Healthy Quick Breakfast Ideas
August 26th, 2009 by Angela, NutritionistHere are some healthy, quick breakfast ideas the whole family will enjoy. Raw Organic Bar and a whole Piece of Fruit – This is about the quickest breakfast you can eat. Raw Organic Bars (my favorite energy bars) have 200 calories and a good amount of protein and fiber. Add in a large whole pieceRead the rest of this entry…
Breakfast: The FIRST Most Important Meal of the Day
August 21st, 2009 by Angela, NutritionistWe’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, now learn why. Breakfast is directly correlated to cognitive development and mental performance. After sleeping for 8 hours (yes, you should be getting 8 hours of sleep each night), the body needs fuel to power the body and the mind. Not havingRead the rest of this entry…
Food Sources of Iron
August 19th, 2009 by Angela, NutritionistWhat Foods Provide Iron? There are two forms of dietary iron: heme and nonheme. Heme iron is derived from hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells. Heme iron is found in animal foods that originally contained hemoglobin, such as red meats, fish, and poultry. Iron in plant foods suchRead the rest of this entry…
