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If you haven’t tried a rainbow carrot, now is the time!  Rainbow carrots taste like regular carrots and have tons of fiber like them too, but because they come in a variety of rich colors like purple and yellow, they also contain a slew of...

I'm Italian. So naturally I love rich, old-school Italian meals.  What I don't love however, is how I can barely zip my jeans and have an intense need for a nap afterwards!  All of those extra pasta carbs and too much fat causes immediate bloating...

Valerie had the honor of leading an interactive and informative nutrition presentation and cooking demonstration for the heroes of the Boston Fire Department.  The goal was to teach these brave men and women how to work balanced nutrition into their busy fire and home lives.  Valerie serves as a Nutrition Specialist & Chef for O2X, an innovative health performance company designed to educate elite organizations like the Boston Fire Department on a complete approach to wellness including conditioning, nutrition, sleep, stress and resilience. Learn More about O2X.   

If you’re like me, you want to be fit, healthy, energized and confident. But you refuse to starve yourself, count calories or succumb to “diet food” because to you, it’s just not worth it. You’re willing to work for what you want but only if...

High fructose corn syrup. Sodium Hexametaphosphate. Caramel color.  These are the ingredients listed in Aunt Jemima syrup. The syrup millions of people, mostly kids, smother their pancakes with every day. Want to know the one thing missing in the list of ingredients in Aunt Jemima...

If you’ve read my previous blog on how diets actually cause weight gain, you were probably nodding your head, thinking, “Yup, been there!”  Many of you reached out and said that you had been struggling for years to lose weight and now you finally understood...

I went shopping for jeans the other day.  For the record, buying jeans is my second most hated shopping excursion (after bathing suit shopping of course.)  So I’m looking in the mirror and I can barely concentrate on the jeans because I’m so focused on...

I haven’t gotten on a scale since 1999 (well..with the exception of the mandatory weigh-in at the doctor’s of course.) There are many compelling reasons why I broke up with my scale.  But the main one? My scale is a liar.  And yours is too....

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