Can You Eat Right with Color?
The theme for National Nutrition Month was “Eat Right with Color.”  Besides attracting attention, the colors of fruits and vegetables also indicate the nutrient content in them.  Listed are some good reasons to color up your plate.
Colors of Fruits and Vegetables
RED – Red foods such as strawberries, watermelon, pomegranates, and tomatoes… [Continue Reading]

Do Carbs Help You to Lose Weight?
Eating a diet packed with carbs can help you lose weight.  BUT for the carbs to help they have to be right kind of carbs.  These right kind of carbs are called Resistant Starch and multiple studies have shown these carbs help you to eat less, burn more calories,… [Continue Reading]

At the first of the year, everyone is bombarded with resolutions, do this and don’t do that! By the second week of the year, most everyone has given up on at least one well intended promise. What will make 2011 any different? Read on and check out some tips on getting started on the road to a healthier lifestyle.

The Holiday Countdown has started! Are you ready? Find some new and some reliable ways to handle the holidays and the stress and anxiety that accompanies the season. Overcome obstacles such as too many special lunches, office parties, and dinners with family and friends. Schedule your time to organize and cope with the extended holidays!

Are You Thinking Pink?
All around the area the color of the day is pink. It is October and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. According to the Center for Disease Control, the best way to detect breast cancer early is with a mammogram. Read the article “In the Pink! and get tips on nutrition and exercise and review risk factors of breast cancer.

The kids are back in school! Are you ready for time for yourself? Get back to the gym and back in shape. Dust off the fitness membership and make the most of the upcoming months. Or think outside the gym and use your time at home to start your fitness and nutrition plans. Let LifeStyle help and save some money!

From the Daily Press, in Newport News, VA. Is it possible to cut calories and lose weight without feeling constantly hungry and irritable? Here are a few tips to help you lose those unwanted pounds you gained during the miserable, hot weather we have experienced this summer.

From the Dallas Morning News and the Memphis Commercial Appeal here are a few tips to interject some fitness at the office.
Take the stairs. This is one of the best and cheapest ways to add in daily activity. Just a couple of times up and down will burn some calories.

Be Well – Be Healthy – Are you one of the 6 out of 10 people who is overweight or obese? Are you tired of struggling with the constant battle of diets? Does it seem as if you are out of control?

Shake up your summer and become more fit. Join the OLEC (Owings Life Enrichment Center), the best kept secret in Germantown, Tennessee.