Posts Tagged ‘Diet’

Lady Smarts: How to Survive a Juice Cleanse

Written by Meredith Russo on . Posted in NY Press Exclusive

Via Flickr/im elsewhere Juice. Cleanse. Are any two words in the English language more hated? More feared? More cringe-inducing? No, “The Holidays” don’t count. That’s one word because you don’t count “the” in the – you know what? Forget it. Anyway, I hope you’re ready to burn some money – I mean FAT – because we’re doing a
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Caveman Chic

Written by Regan Hofmann on . Posted in Dining Our Town, Dining west side spirit, Eat & Drink, News OTDT, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

dining photo Caveman_1   Perhaps you remember the Paleo diet. It arose during the great fad-diet renaissance of 2008, after Atkins had been thoroughly debunked by the master’s unfortunate heart attack and the market for bombastic pseudoscience was wide open. Into the vacuum rushed the French Women Don’t Get Fat diet, the Glycemic Index diet, the adoption of
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Candy Store Leaves Sour Taste for Some: Critics Say Sweet Shop Too Close to School

Written by West Side Spirit on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

sugar and plumm 5 By Amanda Woods Some Upper West Siders don’t have a sweet tooth for Sugar and Plumm, a store and café set to open on Amsterdam Avenue near 78th Street later this summer. They are concerned that the shop’s sugary selection—similar to the offerings at several other shops in the area—is unhealthy for neighborhood children, and
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Something to Chew On

Written by admin on . Posted in Education

A recent study has confirmed that a healthy, Mediterranean-style diet combined with regular exercise can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Previous studies have linked diet and exercise, independently, to reduced Alzheimer’s risk, but the recent investigation, at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center,
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THE F BOMB

Written by admin on . Posted in Special Sections

For more than 10 years, New York nutritionist Tanya Zuckerbrot has helped hundreds of patients in her private practice to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle through her fiber-based diet. After years of success, Zuckerbrot—a Great Neck, N.Y., native who now calls the Upper East Side home—wanted her program to have a broader impact.
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