New York City Eats

Tweet Eat more berries, your body will thank you — and so will your taste buds, berries are not only good for your health but they’re also delicious! Low in fat, carbs, and calories, but high in fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, these yummy nuggets of flavor not only contribute to overall health, but may [...]

Tweet I always feel conflicted about nuts, I knew there were a bunch of health benefits (wasn’t really sure what they were) and I also knew they were higher in calories, so I was a little apprehensive to dig in to the nuts. The more I read the more I find that everyone should be [...]

Tweet There is nothing worse than getting up close and personal with someone to only see them creeping away from your bad breath. It happens. What you eat, and how you digest your food largely impacts how your breath smells. Bad breath results from two key issues: oral hygiene and gastrointestinal health. The culprit in [...]

Tweet And I don’t mean a gallon of ice cream after a breakup. I found this awesome article on Self.com by Leah McLaughlin talking about foods that can actually make your body feel good.  We often find comfort in the fatty, sugary or greasy foods but here’s a list of healthful, nutritional foods to munch on [...]

Tweet If you’re having an issue with your diet where you ALWAYS feel hungry and are constantly looking for something else to munch on you probably need to eat more fiber. Fiber keeps you feeling full for longer periods of time. So if you’re trying to cut out some calories you may want to add [...]

Tweet I’ve heard the word “superfood” thrown around so much I honestly don’t even know what it means. Seems like every fruit & vegetable is a superfood. According to Wikipedia a superfood is “a term sometimes used to describe food with high phytonutrient content that may confer health benefits as a result.” If you put [...]

Tweet Good morning all! This post came about just a couple minutes ago when I was looking through one of my Get Fit emails from Self.com. I was looking over their website and I saw a “shopping list” for Cellulite-fighting foods and of course I clicked on it. What girl wouldn’t? Apparently not all foods [...]

Tweet I’ve always heard really great things about citrus fruits and I’m sure you all have also but I started wondering, what’s really true from all the gossip? Is it true that you should eat 1/2 a grapefruit before each meal to help burn calories? (that’s one I’m sure we’ve all heard) So I started [...]

Tweet Today while I was eating my lunch time salad I realized that I’ve been eating sliced almonds every day for quite some time now. I started wondering if there was such thing as too many consecutive days of almonds, may sound silly, but you never know. I found that snacking on almonds every day [...]

Tweet I’m sure we’ve all heard of the idea of thinking yourself thin and saying “yea right!”. If it were that easy everyone would be model skinny. The point isn’t that thinking that you look thin will make you lose weight, it’s thinking about your food choices before you eat that will help you lose [...]