Posts Tagged ‘Holiday’
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) December 30, 2011
Fitness 4 Home Superstore, Inc., Arizona?s premier supplier of fitness equipment, suggests cardio equipment to help take off holiday weight. Through special monitoring technology, called ?HRC? or Heart Rate Control, users can maintain a healthy heart rate during their cardio workout.
?It?s no secret that most of us put on a few pounds during the holiday season,? said Fitness 4 Home Superstore Owner and President Bob Lachniet. ?Now is a great time to think about taking that extra weight off. The best way to do so is with a great cardio workout that gets your heart rate going.?
Specific cardio equipment to consider for optimal health includes TRUE cardio equipment with heart rate control. The True ES900 Treadmill is equipped with a digital contact heart rate monitoring system and a Polar
Islandia, NY (PRWEB) December 20, 2011
Nobody wants to eat diet food that looks and tastes like diet food. Especially during the holidays, we are drawn to heavy delicious meals that are not always calorie friendly. However, there are many ways we can trick our taste buds and enjoy low calorie foods that are high in flavor.
According to Sandra Angelella, Whitsons Culinary Group Dietitian, the key to enjoying a healthy holiday feast is just tweaking our favorite recipes and replacing some ingredients with healthier ones, ?Special meals and exchanging gifts are often a part of a family?s traditional holiday celebration. Why not start a new tradition this year? Make some small changes to your favorite recipes and give the gift of better health that will last all year.?
Sometimes a simple change of ingredients can make a positive and healthier difference. For instance, replacing cream cheese with low-fat cottage cheese in the all-time favorite appetizer Cucumber Cups with Salmon Whip Cream reduces calories significantly, yet it maintains the overall savory flavor of the dish. Another idea for a low-fat treat is baked potato chips served with a dollop of fat-free sour cream and topped with any type of caviar or fish roe.
Another way to reduce the calorie and fat content of a dish is to slightly alter the preparation. You can avoid deep frying some foods by saut
Long Island City, NY (PRWEB) December 15, 2011
The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with its many challenging demands. Fortunately, there is relief for holiday revelers looking to maximize their cheer?and their holiday food fare.
Nutropia (http://www.nutropia.com), a fresh food delivery company servicing the New York Metro area, provides a comprehensive range of delicious and nutritious gourmet meals delivered right to your doorstep so you can cross at least one major item off your holiday to-do list.
Nutropia?s meal plans are highly customizable and tailored to suit individual tastes and dietary needs. There are 100 new meals and snacks to select from on a weekly basis, prepared by a team of professionals headed by executive chef Christopher Rivard. Together, the team creates delectable dining experiences that include Italian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, American, Indian and Mexican.
Each meal is placed in an individually packaged, microwave-safe container and carefully enclosed in a thermal cooled bag with ice packs and utensils. Nutropia also labels all its dishes with both nutritional value and the date of delivery to help clients keep track of their intake and to guarantee freshness.
?We understand how hectic and difficult it can be for New Yorkers to prepare tasty, nutritious meals while juggling parties, entertaining, shopping and working,? says Nutropia co-founder, James Rappaport. ?So we developed this program to ensure that they can easily get the delicious, gourmet meals they seek, delivered right to their front door, with absolutely minimum effort, making the holiday season much more manageable and stress-free.?
At the heart of Nutropia?s philosophy is a passion for helping their customers achieve their dietary goals ? whether they are looking to lose weight, gain weight, increase their energy level, or simply to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
?At Nutropia, we strive to meet the individual needs or special requests of each of our clients in a way that is both healthy and beneficial to the waistline,? says Ranee LaFratta, co-owner of Nutropia. ?We make sure that our customers can maintain their proper diets and have all their favorite foods, but not necessarily all on the same day!?
LaFratta also makes herself personally available to every Nutropia client. ?All our customers have my direct cell phone number and we work together to customize suitable menus,? she says. ?I also take all their suggestions and work closely with our chef to create new, fresh and inspired dishes. At the end of the day, I strongly believe that the happier and more successful our customers are, the more successful we can be.?
Nutropia currently services the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, as well as Westchester County and the Lower Hudson Valley. Outside of New York, Nutropia delivers to Greenwich, Connecticut and all of the New Jersey towns within 10 miles of the George Washington Bridge, including: Jersey City, Hoboken, Fort Lee and West New York. Meals are now available starting at $ 29.99 for a 7-day plan.
For more information about Nutropia Gourmet Meals, write Nutropia, 38-21 12th Street, Long Island City NY 11101; call (718) 937-3400; e-mail info(at)nutropia(dot)com or visit http://www.nutropia.com
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Medford, Oregon (PRWEB) December 07, 2011
Cushman?s, America?s citrus gift experts for over 60 years, celebrates the holidays with tangy yet sweet citrus Christmas gifts, including Cushman?s signature Honeybell oranges, ruby red grapefruit and more.
Cushman?s offers delicious Christmas gifts, including the most limited edition fruit in the world ?Honeybell citrus, including Honeybell oranges. Kids and adults alike will appreciate the delightful Family Sized Holiday Drum. It is packed to the brim with festive assortment of Cushman?s juicy premium fruit. This gift also includes a wealth of sweet goodies: delicious cookies and hard candies, orange marmalade and assorted truffles. Charming as can be, this gift is sturdy enough to reuse once their luscious contents have been happily consumed. With Cushman?s Christmas gifts, this Christmas will surely be one to remember forever.
Christmas is the time to reminisce and celebrate fond moments with loved ones, even from far away. Family and friends are sure to love Christmas gifts from Cushman?s, including the Grand Fruit Wreath gift. It is a beautiful joy to behold? but each is an even better treat to eat! All of these delicious fruits include Honeybell oranges and are artfully arranged in a pretty, old fashioned holiday wreath. This festive citrus gift comes with plenty of fun candies and finest fruit, such as navel oranges, Crown Ruby Red grapefruit, Royal Tiara tangerines and crisp apples. No wonder thousands of customers say that Cushman?s Christmas gifts are irresistible!
Looking for a centerpiece for the dining room table or a juicy snack to share while chatting in front of the fireplace? The Christmas Tree Under the Tree is one of Cushman?s many unique Christmas gifts. Take a picture as soon as it arrives, because the succulent, seedless Honeybell oranges, rare Royal Tiara Tangerines, and juicy-sweet Cushman’s
Wallingford, CT (PRWEB) December 06, 2011
The recently published, “Cook Your Way Through The S.A.T.” is a great holiday gift for teens and tweens. Parents, grandparents, friends and family shopping for a special surprise that is educational and fun will enjoy this innovative book.
“Cook Your Way Through The S.A.T.” pairs each of 99 recipes with a “fun fact blurb,” a short paragraph about the recipe containing 10 vocabulary words that appear on all standardized tests given in middle school and high school. Each blurb is followed by a vocabulary match test and answers can be checked in the index at the end of the book. Students enjoy learning 1000 vocabulary words and improve reading comprehension while cooking simple, delicious, easy to prepare recipes. Families can spend “quality time” together enjoying cooking and learning.
Author Charis Freiman-Mendel wrote “Cook Your Way Through The S.A.T.” as a homeschool project to help her prepare for the SSAT, the standardized test she needed to take for admission to traditional high school. Her verbal scores rose dramatically as a result of her immersion in cooking and words. She knows from personal experience that students learn when they are engaged, interested, and enjoying the process of acquiring knowledge. Memorizing lists of vocabulary, words roots and other conventional methods of standardized test preparation are boring and don’t give long lasting results. Now that she’s published, “Cook Your Way Through The S.A.T.,” Charis blogs about food and words on her website, http://www.SATgourmet.com. She continues to use the process that helped her succeed with the SSAT, now that she’s preparing for the PSAT, SAT and ACT.
Cooking empowers kids to make healthy food and lifestyle choices. Interesting “fun facts” about the recipe engage their interest and involve them in learning words in context of the story. Preparing for standardized tests should begin in middle school because cramming doesn’t work. “Cook Your Way Through The S.A.T.” is a project that can facilitate word acquisition over a sustained period of time, offering results for the long term through middle school and high school. The book is an innovative and creative tool that should be included in the standardized test prep for every teen and tween.
“Cook Your Way Through The S.A.T.” has been featured in “The Chronicle of Higher Education” and numerous other journals, newpapers, blogs, and on radio and television. This unique teaching tool is available for sale through Amazon and other online booksellers.
It’s never too soon to make learning a family affair. This holiday season, choose “Cook Your Way Through The S.A.T.” for the teens and tweens on your shopping list, and set aside time to start a new family tradition of educational fun.
Contact Charis through http://www.SATgourmet.com or Charis(at)SATgourmet(dot)com.
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Real-world holiday weight-control advice
Who better to offer weight-control advice, I thought, than people who have lost a lot of weight and kept it off? I spoke with three Washington area residents: Herbert Walker, 49, of Frederick has lost more than 51 pounds. …
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Hormones can defeat your weight loss efforts
This implies an answer to medical science's inability to find one treatment or medication that can achieve and sustain adequate weight loss. In most people, dieting efforts not only fail but seem to train the body to resist similar dieting efforts in …
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'Fat-free' foods could work against dieters
She and her colleagues made their conclusions after looking at how weight fluctuated in rats. A control group was fed full-fat crisps for 28 days. The other group was first fed the full-fat crisps, and then switched to fat-substitute crisps. …
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Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) November 21, 2011
Editors at Maternity.com announced their holiday commitment today. The redesigned site will provide busy, stressed-out moms and moms-to-be a deeper look at the season?s stressors, trends and nutrition pitfalls.
Black Friday shopping deals will be at the top of every pregnancy resource this week, but Maternity.com will take their content one step further, offering resources specific to the emotional and physical hurdles women face around the holidays. From IVF scheduling challenges, to travel fears and dietary concerns, the holidays can be extremely taxing on women that are trying or expecting.
To remove the worry and allow readers to enjoy the holiday cheer, Maternity.com will publish continuing coverage throughout the next several weeks and rollout a complete holiday survival guide on December 1.
Just in time for the holidays, Maternity.com has also revamped its look, taking on colors of the season and putting the story front and center for a more reader-friendly layout and design.
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From pre-conception, to pregnancy and baby?s first year, Maternity.com is the complete resource for a woman?s journey to motherhood, and it is one of the fastest-growing online resources in the pregnancy and maternity sectors. In addition to exclusive editorial content, the site features an editor-curated shopping experience.
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FireFly Farms Creamery & Market Limited Edition Gift Crate Samplers Now Available for Holiday Giving
Accident, MD (PRWEB) November 16, 2011
FireFly Farms Creamery & Market (http://www.fireflyfarms.com), producer of artisanal goat cheeses from Maryland?s Allegheny Plateau, is pleased to announce the availability of their 2011 limited edition gourmet gift crate samplers?appetizing treats for your favorite holiday host, cherished friend, or appreciated business-client this winter season.
Each elegant, slide-top, wooden gift crate features two of FireFly Farms? award-winning handcrafted cheeses paired with a selection of specialty food items from the FireFly Farms Creamery & Market, located at 107 South Main Street in Accident, Maryland, in Garrett County.
Customers have various gift crate sampler options from which to choose:
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 23, 2011
For holiday visitors, the desserts are often the best part of a festive meal. But what about those who count older adults among their guests ? are there desserts available for them, especially if they?re watching their diets?
There are, and in time for the holidays, the executive chefs at Vi continuing care retirement communities are offering up some of their favorite dessert recipes at Vi?s website. Online visitors their will find virtually everything from a dessert recipe for Pompano Poached Pears or Roasted Mission Figs Wrapped in Prosciutto, to Marsala Bavarian or Vanilla Bean Rice Pudding.
?Dramatic flavors accented with mom?s classics are the secret to cooking for an aging palate,? said Shep Drinkwater, executive chef at Vi at the Glen, the Chicago suburb of Glenview, IL. ?The key ingredient is to know your audience ? listen to what they say. Most will be helpful if you are receptive to their wants and needs.?
Drinkwater has two dessert favorites on the Vi website: A Flourless Chocolate Cake and a Cr
Monroe, Wisconsin (PRWEB) November 21, 2011
One of Swiss Colony?s tastiest giving traditions turns 20 this year ? a “gift that gives back.” Simply order a box of 72 Petits Fours (item #AW025), and The Swiss Colony (http://www.swisscolony.com) will send a pre-made Gingerbread House to a hospitalized child in the region where the gift is sent at no extra charge. It?s a great way to please those hard-to-shop for folks on everyone’s holiday list, while making a sweet gesture of kindness to child who can?t be home for Christmas.
?This is a program that?s close to the heart of each of us at The Swiss Colony,? says John Baumann, president of The Swiss Colony. ?The hospital can be a scary place for a child ? and an especially lonely one around the holidays when they know their friends will be out with family enjoying all the fun of the season. These Gingerbread Houses bring a dose of holiday cheer and bit of the winter wonderland right to their bedside.?
Through their partnership with the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions, Inc., The Swiss Colony has been donating Gingerbread Houses since 1991. By the end of 2011 Swiss Colony will have delivered 200,000! Baumann says, ?That?s a Christmas tradition both gift giver and receiver can be proud of.?
In fact, Swiss Colony includes a card with the petits fours to let the gift recipient know that a Gingerbread House has been sent to a child in need, in their name. Plus, a “Thank You” card will be sent to the gift recipient from the hospital to recognize their donation to these special children at Christmas.
The Gingerbread House Program combines two of the most recognized, and taste-tempting Christmas culinary traditions:
Petits fours no one can resist ? from the company that made them famous! The festively wrapped Petits Fours (item #AW025) includes a tempting assortment of 72 of Swiss Colony?s signature, hand-decorated, confection-size petits fours in six mouth-watering flavors: Royal Vanilla, Carrot Spice, Strawberry Shortcake, Lemon Mist, Red Velvet and Chocolate Fudge.
The Swiss Colony helped bring petits fours to the American public in the late 1950s thanks to Meister Konditors (master pastry chefs) recruited from Europe. These chefs brought the French tradition of miniature cakes made from the versatile ?G