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The 6 Breakfast Habits to Make Your Mornings Healthier
Read More: The 6 Breakfast Habits to Make Your Mornings HealthierEven though the mantra “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” was designed as a marketing ploy to get you to buy more cereal, there’s something to be said about how a well-designed breakfast can set you up for success. In terms of health, mental focus, building muscle and feeling energized, the choices…
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Ask the Nutritionist: Is Pasta Healthy?
Read More: Ask the Nutritionist: Is Pasta Healthy?When people think of healthy food to eat, images of veggies, baked fish and other typical health foods usually pop into peoples’ minds. But when it comes to whether pasta is a healthy food choice, the answer becomes a little less black and white, in part thanks to the bad rap this food has received…
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The Budget-Friendly 2-Week Meal Plan
Read More: The Budget-Friendly 2-Week Meal PlanWhether you’re grocery shopping for one or trying to nourish a family, food bills can add up fast — especially if you’re consistent with your healthy get-lean diet. After all, wild salmon, grass-fed beef and microgreens don’t exactly fit into a budget-friendly meal plan. But you don’t have to spend a fortune to eat like…
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Clean Eating, healthy clean eating, Healthy Clean-Eating Recipes, Healthy Eating, Healthy Recipes, Nutrition
10 Winter Fruits and Vegetables to Add to Your Plate
Read More: 10 Winter Fruits and Vegetables to Add to Your PlateIt’s the time of year when immune health is a trending topic. Whether you’re turning to nutrition for disease prevention or treatment, the good news is that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agrees you can’t go wrong adding more of the bountiful produce selection available this time of year to your diet. While…
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Breakfast Recipes, Healthy Drinks, Healthy Eating for Women, Healthy Recipes, Nutrition, Nutrition Labels
5 Healthy Hot Drinks for Chilly Days
Read More: 5 Healthy Hot Drinks for Chilly DaysWhether you like it or loathe it, sweater weather has now taken its hold. This means your appetite for cold brew coffee and iced tea has likely waned. But it’s important to keep drinking your fluids to maintain hydration, especially if you’re keeping up with a rigorous fitness routine. One of the best ways to…
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Clean Eating, Eating Healthy, Healthy Eating for Women, Healthy Recipes, Lunch, Lunch Recipes, Nutrition Advice
7 Easy and Healthy Lunches for Busy People
Read More: 7 Easy and Healthy Lunches for Busy PeopleWe all know how important a healthy lunch can be for combatting that midday slump. But for many of us, enjoying nutritious foods at lunchtime can be easier said than done. Between juggling work and appointments, sticking to an exercise routine, and the many other demands of our days, sitting down for a balanced meal…
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3 Ways with Holiday Cocktails
Read More: 3 Ways with Holiday Cocktails‘Tis the season to be jolly – and what’s more jolly than a fancy-looking holiday cocktail? We have three recipes that not only taste good but have carefully curated ingredients like rosemary, turmeric and basil. Cherry Rosemary Vodka Ice We chose rosemary to round out this drink’s fruity sweetness because we believe even boozy bevvies…
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12 Days of Gains, Breakfast Recipes, Desserts, Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Protein Sources
Amelia Ricci’s Protein Muffins
Read More: Amelia Ricci’s Protein MuffinsOxygen Ambassador Amelia Ricci has these plenty of these protein muffins around during the holidays! They’re perfect for an on-the-go snack, a warm-out-of-the-oven treat for guests and a protein-packed breakfast. Amelia Ricci’s Living Beauty Protein Muffins Makes 12 Ingredients 1 medium banana 150g blueberries and raspberries 70g rolled oats or quinoa (for gluten-free) 60g protein…
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12 Days of Gains, Desserts, Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Eating, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women
Macro-Friendly Edible Sugar Cookie Dough
Read More: Macro-Friendly Edible Sugar Cookie DoughLooking to satisfy your sweet tooth without straying too far from your healthy diet? Try Oxygen Ambassador Hannah Dawson’s recipe below. Ingredients (makes 5 servings) 1 tbsp of butter or coconut oil, melted and slightly heated 1/2 cup Kodiak waffle and pancake mix 1 tbsp vanilla protein powder (whey or vegan) 1/4 tsp almond extract…
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12 Days of Gains, Breakfast Recipes, Healthy Recipes, Nutrition News, Nutrition Tips, Nutrition Tips for Women
Healthy On-The-Go Snacks to Keep Your Energy Up
Read More: Healthy On-The-Go Snacks to Keep Your Energy UpOxygen Ambassador Amelia Ricci has her hands — and her plate — full most of the time, and the holidays only add to her busy schedule. As a certified fitness expert, Pilates and yoga trainer, IFBB bikini competitor and mother of two, Ricci is alway moving. Therefore, she knows the importance of staying fed and…
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Desserts, Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Recipes
25 Delicious Vegan Cookie Recipes for Peak Baking Season
Read More: 25 Delicious Vegan Cookie Recipes for Peak Baking SeasonThe holiday baking season is getting into full swing, and we definitely have cookies on the brain. Every kind of cookie – chewy, crispy, chocolatey, fruity, and more. While you might not want to go totally off the rails with your nutrition plan this holiday season, we’ll be the first to tell you it’s the…
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10 Soul-Hugging Soups That’ll Warm You Up This Winter
Read More: 10 Soul-Hugging Soups That’ll Warm You Up This WinterThere’s no better cure for the chills on a snowy winter day than a bowl of hot, nutritious soup. We have a recipe for all lifestyles and preferences! Keto If you’re not used to it yet, keto can be one of the hardest diets to eat for. Soups and stews can be challenging. Many of…
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Eating Healthy, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Turkey Recipes, Nutrition Advice, Nutrition Tips, Recipes, Turkey Recipes
Instant Pot Turkey Dinner with Vegetable Stuffing & Gravy
Read More: Instant Pot Turkey Dinner with Vegetable Stuffing & GravyParsley isn’t just a good-looking garnish for turkey: This versatile herb contains flavonoids such as apigenin, which has anti-inflammatory effects, and it is also a diuretic, helping to leech excess water from your frame without depleting your potassium levels. Serve with an all-natural purchased cranberry sauce, or make your own. Try these 5 Tantalizing Twists on…
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10 Creative Ways to Use Thanksgiving Leftovers
Read More: 10 Creative Ways to Use Thanksgiving LeftoversOops, you did it again! You bought that 20-pound bird to serve your crew only to find that your aunt got sick and her entire family couldn’t make it. If this situation sounds familiar and you find yourself swimming in a sea of Thanksgiving leftovers, don’t stress. I’ve rounded up 10 delicious and creative recipes…
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Dinner Recipes, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Holidays, Nutrition for Women, Nutrition Tips, Recipes
10 Nutritionists Share Tips for Enjoying the Holidays
Read More: 10 Nutritionists Share Tips for Enjoying the HolidaysCommercials and some brands might tell you the only way to recover from holiday parties, sweets, foods and drinking is to buy into expensive juices or cleanses. If you’re as sick of it as we are, then this piece is for you. Let this year be different and heed the following advice from 10 registered…
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The Gut-Healthy Granola That You Can Prep in 15 Minutes
Read More: The Gut-Healthy Granola That You Can Prep in 15 MinutesGranola is a staple that most of us keep in our pantries for topping yogurt, applesauce or even grabbing a handful as a snack. While there are plenty of healthier versions on store shelves, many of them contain a lot of sugar, making it less than ideal for a nutritious breakfast. If you’ve never made…
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Two Potato Rösti Waffle
Read More: Two Potato Rösti WaffleFor those days where you’re craving waffles, but your sweet tooth just isn’t there: Potato Rösti Waffles! Considered a national dish in Switzerland, rösti, means “crisp and golden” which is exactly what this recipe produces. SERVINGS: 4 PREP TIME: 15 min DURATION: 30 min Ingredients 2 Russet potatoes, coarsely grated and squeezed dry 1/2 sweet potato, coarsely grated…
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Breakfast Recipes, Dinner Recipes, Healthy Recipes, Lunch Recipes, Meal Plan, Muscle Building, Nutrition for Women
The 4-Week Muscle-Up Meal Plan
Read More: The 4-Week Muscle-Up Meal PlanListen up, ladies! It’s time to get over the “low cal is best” attitude toward eating. Sure, it makes sense — to lose weight we need to create a caloric deficit. But if you’re looking to stack on some lean mass and ramp up your strength goals, you’ll have to bump up your food intake…
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Why Intuitive Eating Works for Me
Read More: Why Intuitive Eating Works for MeMy relationship with food changed when I went off to college. It was like all my healthy high-school habits went right out the window. I binge-ate, binge-drank a lot and gained some weight. Eventually, my track coach said, “Hey, you came in at this weight … why do you now weigh this? You need to…
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The Price Is Right 2-Week Meal Plan
Read More: The Price Is Right 2-Week Meal PlanWhether you’re grocery shopping for one or trying to nourish a family, food bills can add up fast — especially if you’re consistent with your healthy get-lean diet. After all, wild salmon, grass-fed beef and microgreens aren’t cheap. What’s more, food prices have increased by more than 3 percent overall in the past year. (Thanks,…
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5 Unique Ways to Use Cashew Butter
Read More: 5 Unique Ways to Use Cashew ButterWhy settle for Skippy when you can have this nutritious upgrade? A study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that adding cashews (or cashew butter) to a typical diet can reduce cholesterol levels. Cashew butter delivers a monster dose of unsaturated fat to keep your heart pumping strong and is packed with essential…
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7 Days of 10-Minute Meals
Read More: 7 Days of 10-Minute MealsSlaving over a hot stove is the last thing you want to do after a long day, making takeout a very appealing alternative. While grab-and-go meals are convenient, they aren’t always the best choice for your wallet — or your fit-body goals. But you can have a healthy, satisfying meal in 10 minutes or less.…
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Healthy Eating, Healthy Recipes, Meal Plan, Nutrition for Women, Nutrition Tips, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes
The Very Vegan Meal Plan
Read More: The Very Vegan Meal PlanTrying to meet your protein needs as a vegan athlete is challenging. Maybe you feel overstuffed with starchy carbs, or maybe you continually come up short from lack of healthy options that aren’t loaded with sodium or preservatives. This vegan meal plan offers you some much-needed variety and a full seven days of high-protein plant-based eating.…
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The One-Week Muscle-Building Meal Plan
Read More: The One-Week Muscle-Building Meal PlanIf you’re hitting the gym hard and have little to show for it, you might need to revamp your fueling strategy. Likely you’re not eating enough calories to support your muscle tissue repairing and rebuilding itself and may even be cannibalizing your hard-earned muscle to fuel your daily activities. This plan makes the most of…
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One-Week Fat-Loss Meal Plan
Read More: One-Week Fat-Loss Meal PlanMore often than not, a diet that severely restricts calories leads to feelings of deprivation and defeat, and when it comes to fat loss, it’s better to fuel up than to skimp out. Too few calories can lead to overeating and binges, ruining any chance you had of losing body fat to begin with. This…
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Healthy Gluten-Free Recipes, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Healthy Vegetarian Recipes, Nutrition for WomenOven-Baked Eggplant Fries Recipe
Read More: Oven-Baked Eggplant Fries RecipeEnjoy these crispy and golden brown “fries” guilt-free! Oven-Baked Eggplant Fries Ready in: 30 minutes Makes: 3 servings Make your own oat flour by pulsing old-fashioned oats in a food processor or go gluten free by swapping the flour for almond meal. Ingredients 1 large eggplant 2 eggs 1/2 cup oat flour 1/4 tsp sea…
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Gluten-Free Recipes, Healthy Gluten-Free Recipes, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Healthy Vegetarian Recipes, Nutrition, Nutrition for Women, Vegetarian RecipesRed Pepper Chickpea Salad Recipe
Read More: Red Pepper Chickpea Salad RecipeCombining red peppers and chickpeas creates a tag-team effect that helps boost energy levels. As two major sources of folate, combining red peppers and chickpeas creates a tag-team effect that helps boost energy levels. Chickpeas are one of the richest whole-food sources of folate, but a one-cup serving still falls short of meeting your daily…
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4 Super Easy Seafood Recipes
Read More: 4 Super Easy Seafood RecipesNo matter how you cook it, protein-packed fish is one of the cleanest, nutrient-rich choices for active women. Here are four simple but tasty recipes. High-protein, low-fat, quick-cooking and versatile, fish may be the perfect food for active women. White fish including cod, halibut and tilapia are rich in protein and very low in calories,…
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1 Food, 5 Ways: Cauliflower
Read More: 1 Food, 5 Ways: CauliflowerBroccoli’s little cousin is getting some serious love. Try these tasty new recipes that feature this superfood. For years, cauliflower has played second string to its flashier cousin, broccoli, but with scads of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and a glut of research proving its cancer-fighting properties, cauliflower can now assert superfood prowess. Try cauliflower one…
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Bison Meatballs
Read More: Bison MeatballsBison Meatballs Ingredients 1 lb ground bison 1/2 cup white onion, diced 2 tbsp black olives, diced 1/4 cup green bell pepper, diced 2 large garlic cloves, diced 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1 tsp basil Sea salt and pepper, to taste 1 tbsp olive oil 1 jar (24 oz) unsalted tomato sauce (organic, if possible)…
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Bikini-Ready Soup
Read More: Bikini-Ready SoupBikini-Ready Soup Ready in: 45 minutes Makes: 6 servings Ingredients 1 tsp olive oil 1 yellow onion 1 celery stalk 2 – 4 cloves of garlic, finely diced 2 large pieces of fresh ginger, finely diced Chili powder or fresh chili, to taste 1/2 large avocado 1 lb cherry tomatoes 1 cup low-sodium chicken stock…
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Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal
Bean Brownies
Read More: Bean BrowniesBean Brownies Ready in: 45 minutes Makes: 20 servings Ingredients Dry 3/4 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp sea salt 1/3 cup Sucanat Wet 1 cup canned or boiled black beans, drained and mashed 1/3 cup canola oil 2 medium eggs 2 egg whites 2 tsp…
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Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Healthy Vegetarian Recipes, Nutrition, Nutrition for Women, Vegetarian Recipes
Basil Watermelon Gazpacho
Read More: Basil Watermelon GazpachoBasil Watermelon Gazpacho Ready in: 1 hour 15 minutes Makes: 4 servings Ingredients 4 cups watermelon, diced 2 cups cucumbers, peeled and diced 2 cups red bell pepper, finely diced 1/4 cup red onion, minced 1/4 cup basil, minced 1/4 cup parsley, minced 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 1/4 tsp sea salt Instructions Blend half…
