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Origins of Common Food Names

Thanks Julie Fritz for helping us with these fun facts to round out our month of nutrition. Ever wonder where your favorite snack got its name?  Curb your appetite with the trivia below. *Did you know...

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Healthiest Easter Brunch Dish!

  Flikr: Field Notes Flickr: Field Notes YES – it’s this easy! Get a watermelon, more fruit, a melon baller and kabob sticks. Once you remove the watermelon fruit, soak up extra water with a paper...

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How to Shop For Skin Care Products

dermatology.com With so much information out there on what NOT to put on our skin, there should be some simple rules when it comes to shopping for skin care, right? Well we went to our favorite skin...

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Healthy Brownie Recipe

Healthy brownies may sounds to good to be true, but this recipe from Rebecca Katz’s new cookbook, The Longevity Kitchen, introduces a chocolate treat that is, as she calls it, a decadent oxymoron. By...

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What Are the Most Expensive Cities to Live In?

Spending my 20s in San Francisco–where I turned my dining room into a bedroom to save money and my roommate and I took turns subletting our room to visiting medical school students on rotation–I was...

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How Much Money Do Your Friends Make?

Let’s face it, money – as a conversation topic – tends to be awkward. Most of us have a rough idea of what our friends make based on externals (that aren’t always accurate) like the type of home they...

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How Much Should I Have in a Rainy Day Fund?

According to the financial gurus at LearnVest a rainy day emergency fund should have at least six months of net income in it. If we haven’t scared you yet, keep reading. Don’t worry, setting a rainy...

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3 Things You Should Do When Asking for a Raise

When’s the last time you received a raise? And no, we aren’t talking about the 3 percent cost of living increase your work doles out each year — but a real based-on-how-great-you’re-doing raise. Think...

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The Super Healthy Lunch for $2

We all know you can hit up the fast food drive-thru to score a meal under $2 – but can a healthy lunch be made for that price? We took the challenge and created this super-healthy, paleo-friendly,...

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The 4 Money Mistakes You Should Never Make

Do you consider yourself on-top of your finances? Do you only shop sales, limit dinners-out and mostly bring your lunch to work? If yes, sounds like you’re on the road to getting your financial ducks...

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How Much Do Other People Spend on Clothes?

We recently read that women spend on average $125,000 over their lifetime on clothing. They will also purchase 3,000 items including 271 pairs of shoes. Women go shopping together–but rarely do they...

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Do You Want to Be a Business Owner?

We’ve been dreaming for years of opening up our own Etsy shop or one of those cute corner wine and cheese boutiques—but how do you really start your own small business? One of the first steps is...

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Simple Steps to Fight Inflammation

The Mayo Clinic’s Brent Bauer, M.D. and Harvard Medical School have come to the same conclusion, inflammation in the…

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How’s your vitamin D level? 9 factors to consider.

Within the last decade – researchers have discovered that not only is vitamin D important to your bone health,…

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Velvety Mediterranean Gazpacho 
with Avocado Cream

Photo courtesy of: The Longevity Kitchen Whether you want to be a hit at your next garden party or…

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Are You Cheap? 9 Tips on Tipping

Ginger Budrick is like the Emily Post of the food-and-bev industry. The veteran cocktail waitress gives us nine tips…

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5 Sweet Treats that Won’t Make You Stupid!

We all know that too much of any kind of sugar can put us as risk for obesity and…

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Why is Breakfast So Important?

Burning fat just got easier! According to a study out of University of Northumbria, people who exercise before breakfast…

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Fitness Plateau? Check Your Plate

Sloan Hemmer (photo above) discusses the REAL reason you can’t seem to lose those last few pounds. One of…

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2 Day Get Sh** Done Retreat in the Wine Country

Miss University is back!  And we are excited to share our upcoming two day workshop/ retreat for anyone (men…

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