The Nutrition Post

How Can I Eat Right On A Business Trip?

Dr. Melina Jampolis is a San Francisco, California, physician nutrition specialist - a specialty practiced by only about 200 physicians in the United States. She focuses exclusively on nutrition for weight loss and disease prevention and treatment.

The added stress of traveling for business might throw you off your diet. But hotel dining and restaurant meals can be healthy with planning and packing tips.

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Essential Travel Oatmeal

Family Fresh Cooking is meant to inspire a lifestyle – what we choose to feed ourselves and our children is our choice. Certain foods make us feel great, while others destroy our moods and energy levels. Marla’s blog abides by these mottos.

It’s easy to make your own nutritious hot breakfast in a hotel room, no matter what time you wake up! Especially a good idea when traveling with kids.

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Travel Essentials: Fit Food For Families On The Go

Family Fresh Cooking is meant to inspire a lifestyle – what we choose to feed ourselves and our children is our choice. Certain foods make us feel great, while others destroy our moods and energy levels. Marla’s blog abides by these mottos.

Vacation with the kids shouldn’t disrupt a healthy routine! Tips and tricks for eating mini-meals throughout the day to keep the family active and happy.

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Be Careful Driving On Super Bowl Sunday

Dr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central.

As folks get ready to watch the Super Bowl on television this Sunday in the U.S., many of us will be joining or attending Super Bowl viewing parties. If you’re like most Americans, you’ll probably drive to get to that party.

But unlike most Sundays, when you drive this Sunday coming home from your Super Bowl Party, be especially careful. Why?

Because unlike other Sundays when a football game is televised, researchers found that both non-fatal and fatal car accidents increase 41 percent on average. The risk is highest within an hour of the game’s end, when most people are driving home.

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Fat People and Fuel Economy: A Weighty Connection

Jim Motavalli writes on environmental topics for The New York Times, CBS MoneyWatch, NPR’s Car Talk, AOL, Mother Nature Network and TheDailyGreen.com (Hearst). He is author or editor of six books, including Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future, Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change, and Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery. His next book, tentatively titled High Voltage (about electric cars), will be published by Rodale. He is also a senior writer for E/The Environmental Magazine, a contributor to the Environmental Defense Fund publications and to Knowledge@Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. Motavalli is a two-time winner of the Global Media Award from the Population Institute, and hosts a radio program on WPKN-FM in Connecticut, with frequent live music. He lectures widely on climate, transportation and population issues.

“Welcome to Wendy’s, how may I help you?” If you replied, “Make mine the Triple Baconator Combo Meal with small fries and a small Coke,” you’ve just agreed to pack on 1,850 calories, 106 grams of fat (43 of them saturated) and 2,780 milligrams of sodium.

And we wonder why Americans are so fat. That calorie count was from a new book, “10 Worst Fast Food Meals in America,” and you’d do no better with the Large Triple Whopper with Cheese Value Meal (with fries!) from Burger King (1,790 calories). It’s no wonder that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average American male between 20 and 74 has a 39-inch waist and weighs 194.7 pounds (up 28.4 since 1960). The news isn’t much better for women: They weigh in at 164.7 now (with a 37-inch waist).

As Automotive News (subscription required) recently noted, there’s a car angle to this. Automakers are bending over backwards to reduce the weight of their cars, using lightweight steel and carbon fiber whenever possible.

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Fighting Family Jet Lag Through the Holidays

Clinical Psychologist; Board Certified Sleep Specialist

I love this story about how to combat “junior jet lag.” We’re in the thick of the holiday season, which is prime time for travel. School vacations and holiday visits to family make this a time of year when many people are packing up and heading across time zones. Travel can be disruptive to sleep [...]

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Don’t Sleep and Drive: How to Avoid Complex Sleep Behaviors

Psychiatrist; Psychotherapist; Author, 'Master Your Sleep'

Sleeping pills, like any other medication, can have unpleasant side effects. One dangerous side effect is complex sleep behaviors. These behaviors include sleep eating, sleep driving, sexomnia and sleep violence.

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Search for Seaweed Leads Travelers to Argentina

Senior Associate Producer/iReport at CNN.com

The fabled Patagonia region of Argentina beckons visitors seeking adventure and the mystique of a place that is now emblazoned on the logo of a brand-name clothing outfitter.   But for Jane Teas of Columbia, South Carolina, a December 2009 trip to Argentina was a chance to learn more about seaweed harvesting.   Teas uses [...]

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