Healthy Eggplant Parmesan Recipe: Slash 470 Calories and 22 Grams of Fat!

I love eggplant parmesan, but this vegetarian dish is often laden with oil and calories if ordered in restaurants or made traditionally. So, I came up with this easy eggplant parmesan recipe that slashes calories and fat,yet tastes even better than those greasy versions found in Italian restaurants. Here’s What You’ll Need This recipe serves 3 people. 1 Large eggplant 1...

This vegetarian enchilada pie recipe is perfect for those that love

Vegetarian Enchilada Pie Recipe Mexican flavors, yet want to enjoy healthier Mexican food options. I love this recipe because it is easy to make, it’s healthy, tastes delicious, and serves the whole family. This recipe is also cheese-free for those that are cutting back on the dairy and saturated fat. Enchilada Pie Ingredients 1 pack of soft corn tortillas 1 16...

Top 10 Habits That Keep Women Fat-The Real Skinny

The Real Skinny was recently published by the bloggers at Appetite For Heath. In this book they compiled The Top 101 Fat Excuses that they have received from their readers over the years. They believe that everyone has a choice and women can either choose to keep making excuses to remain fat or choose to find solutions to those excuses and start...

My Beef With Meat: 10 Reasons to Never Eat Meat Again

My Beef With Meat is a new book by firefighter, Rip Esselstyn, the creator of the popular vegan diet Engine 2. He’s on a personal quest to convince people that eating only plants is the best choice for their health as well as for the planet. My Beef With Meat devotes 35 chapters to the condemnation of eating meat...

Eat Vegetarian, Live Longer?

People who eat a vegetarian diet live longer than those who eat meat, according to research published this week.Researchers from Loma Linda University in California followed 73,308 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which encourages a vegetarian diet, for almost six years. There were 12 percent fewer deaths among vegetarians over that period compared to meat-eaters, the researchers...

Why 8-Year-Olds Need Neck Cream

  When I die, I want to be buried on5F at Bergdorf Goodman(preferably near Marc by Marc Jacobs). Until I meet my demise, I’m making it a point to shop there whenever I pop into Manhattan for a day trip. Believe it or not, BG has some great sales (the only racks I ever visit) – post season. A few months...

Why I Hid My Face

Three years ago, out of the blue, I noticed everything I ate left a nasty metallic taste in my mouth. It didn’t matter what it was – a sandwich, a piece of gum, anything. It all tasted like I was sucking on a mouthful of nickels. Hmmm. A few days later, my face felt weird. Really weird. I...

Why Oil is Good for Your Skin

Oil releases oil. It is a very strange irony, and hard to wrap the brain around, but it is a fact: it takes oil to remove oil. And with that law of organic chemistry, we’ll jump right into the point of this conversation… During those pesky, hormonal-laden teen years, I remember our best beauty tip for acne: wash your...

Green Holiday Gifting

I love finding awesome etsy.com businesses that line up with my sustainability and beauty ideals. Sage & Kai is an etsy store with all sorts of wonderful green products, from organic lunch box napkins to iPad sleeves. Of course, it was their cosmetic bags that sent my heart racing. The two-piece Happy Day bag set featured here makes a great holiday gift...

Acne and Diet

Pepperoni pizza. Dark chocolate, hazelnut brownies. Buttermilk battered fried chicken. molten dark chocolate cake Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about what you eat and how it affects your skin. Diet alone isn’t the cause of skin problems like acne, but it can clearly exasperate its symptoms. The good news is, it can also help in...

Beauty Tip: Juice Cleanse!

1 whole cucumber, 4 sticks celery, 3-4 kale leaves, 1 whole green apple, ½ lemon, peeled. That’s my Mean Green juice recipe. Sometimes I like to get a little crazy with it and add some mint or basil…a thumb of ginger makes me feel reaaaally exotic…but in the end, it’s always the same: it always tastes like my...