Healthy Food Chart for Everyone

It's Monday and although I was excited to get back to my routine I'm feeling a little sad that the holidays, the wedding, and vacation are over. But on a positive note, that means Boot Camp tonight. Yeah! The new session starts at 8pm. After all the eating, I'm ready for a tough workout. Happy Monday....it's almost over.

 *For an at home butt kicking, try The Method: Cardio Boot Camp with Tracy Mallet (amazon.com). It was selected by the American Council on Exercise to study the fitness benefits of boot camp workouts.

Sorry no pictures today, my camera battery is dead:(

We will be updating our database on January 6th.  (Please see this post for more details on the hundreds of new and updated foods that are being added to NutritionData.com!)  There may be a brief period during which you are unable to access your My ND Foods and Recipes.  Don't worry: All of your foods and recipes are safe and will be available as soon as the update is completed. 

We are planning to begin the update at around 6AM Eastern time on January 6th and expect it to take three or four hours to finish.  Thank you for your patience while we complete this exciting upgrade!

Boston is covered in a big sheet of ice! Apparently we got a freezing rain storm last night and now everything has a layer of ice over it making walking and driving pretty dangerous. Mike did the morning walk with Bruce and I have my fingers crossed we get a thaw out by the time he needs his next one because I am nervous to have the baby out with such icy footing underneath me. I have just a couple of things to do outside of the house this week but I am otherwise staying close to home so that I can rest up, get the Christmas decorations down and get prepared to start going back to school! In just a couple weeks my course starts so I am really getting down to doing some tangible preparation now. This morning I had a bowl of cereal with skim milk and a clementine. I love having the crate of clementines in the fridge because they are so easy to grab and so refreshing to eat!

This Meal Provides Approximately: Grains = 1.25 ounces (+whole), Fruit = 0.33 cup, Milk = 1.25 cup

The FDA recently issued a warning about a number of tainted diet supplements. Many of the products claim to be "natural" or contain only "herbal" ingredients - but actually contain pharmaceutical ingredients.

An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a controlled substance), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in the United States), phenytoin (an anti-seizure medication), and phenolphthalein (a solution used in chemical experiments and a suspected cancer causing agent). Some of the amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients far exceeded the FDA-recommended levels, putting consumers' health at risk.

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Flickr: BlyzzNo guy likes talking about the health of their man parts. If it wasn't for the commercialization of prostate cancer screenings, most men wouldn't even know they have a prostate.

But, despite the awkwardness, let's talk sperm! Researchers have determined obese men have lower sperm counts and lower quality sperm than leaner men.

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