For this month's Health & Fitness segment on NBC KARE 11 I put Diana Pierce through my version of The Hunger Games.  If she answers 7 of the 10 following food and nutrition questions correctly she wins a fruit arrangement.  If she loses, she gets a muddy loaf of bread. 

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Today's post comes courtesy of my friend Dr. Nicole LaVoi who is an expert in youth sport, coach and sport parent education, and girls’ and women in sports. She teaches sport psychology and sport sociology in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota where she is...

This post has been sitting in my draft box since late February.  I was supposed to cover this topic on my Health & Fitness segment on NBC KARE 11 on March 2nd, but it got bumped out to the 19th, and then the video link got messed up on their website.  I apologize there is no video...

Think of this the next time you order french fries or anything deep fried, because this is what it was cooked in:

We were leaving an indoor rock climbing facility this weekend and saw this grease recycling dumpster in the alley full of used cooking oil.  I love that it's being recycled and...

When it comes to calorie intake, the message often revolves around total taken in - as long as you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will reduce body fat.  Unfortunately, calories in/calories out is not all there is to the equation as timing plays a critical role in body fat and...