Whole Foods Recipes
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Fast, Easy, Fresh Summer Scallop Salad with Mango, Red Pepper & Avocado
We’re on vacation now (staying at the Atlantis in the Bahamas…so much fun!!) but just before we left I had made this salad at my moms house when we went over for dinner one night. I got the idea from the August issue of Bon Appetit magazine. The recipe was featured in the “Fast, Easy, Fresh” [...]
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Easy Healthy Recipe: Gluten Free Tex-Mex Polenta Pizza
Everyone’s always asking for an easy healthy recipe. But, I’m amazed lately at how many emails we get requesting gluten-free recipes. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, rye, spelt, kamut and oats and it’s become a standby staple of the modern American diet, especially if you eat a lot of baked goods or [...]
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How To Make Asian Seaweed Salad
Every time I go to a sushi restaurant I order the seaweed salad. It’s always very pricey though and then they give me these teeny tiny portions, so I never have enough to eat, which I find very frustrating. However, I went to my mom’s house for dinner the other night and much to my delight [...]
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Hot & Healthy Eating
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Is the Saturated Fat in Coconut Harmful?
If you read the ingredients in a lot of my recipes you’ll notice I use coconut milk and extra virgin coconut oil with regularity. My son absolutely loves coconuts (that’s him in the photo below in front of our house eating a fresh one!) and so I tend to incorporate coconut foods a lot into [...] -
How to Overcome Hunger: The Top 9 Non-Surgical Weight Loss Tips from a Weight Loss Surgeon (Watch Video)
What are some good weight loss tips? This is a question I get a lot, especially because my husband is a weight loss surgeon (he’s the medical director of JFK Medical Center’s Bariatric Wellness and Surgical Institute). In fact, we just got back from the ASMBS (American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery) conference at [...]
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Healthy Eating Tips for Summer Traveling (Watch Video)
I’m actually sort of on vacation right now. I’m in Vegas staying at the Aria hotel while my husband attends the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (we call these conferences “vacation” because instead of working from 6 am till 8 pm or later Andy only goes to work from [...]
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Fitness Tips & 30 Minute Workouts
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Travel Workout: The Ultimate Hotel Room Upper Body Workout (Watch Video)
Nothing throws your healthy lifestyle into a tail spin faster than a vacation. I’ve traveled extensively and I know how hard it can be to stay on track exercising, eating healthfully, getting enough rest, etc. when you’re on the road. But, with a little pre-planning and with a few tips & tricks you can absolutely [...] -
The Stability Ball 6 Best Ab Exercises Workout & Video
I live in south Florida and the weather has been so insanely hot this summer I can barely stand it. I like exercising outdoors but not when it’s 100 degrees. To keep from having a heat stroke I’ve been doing a lot of pool workouts lately (I’ll try and do a video on this soon [...]
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Hoopnastics Standing Exercises: 15 Minute Ballet-Inspired Leg Toning Workout Video
Last week I introduced a workout program I developed called “Hoopnastics” that uses a huge and slightly weighted –but inexpensive– “fitnesss” hoop as the only piece of equipment (you can watch the video intro by clicking HERE and read the article recently featured in the Examiner HERE).
15 Minute Ballet-Inspired Leg Toning Workout
This week I thought [...]
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Hot & Healthy Finds
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Hot & Healthy Find: How to Pick a Healthy Cereal…Moja Mix Premium Custom Mixed Cereal (Watch Video)
My good friend Cherie is helping me scout out the coolest “Hot & Healthy Finds” and she just found one that I am totally crazy about! It’s called “MoJa Mix” and it’s a premium custom mixed cereal. This is cereal like you’ve never had before! With Mojo Mix, you are in complete control over every [...]
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Hot & Healthy Find: Whole Grain Sourdough Bread (& VIDEO with Recipe for Crostini with Roasted Carrot Hummus)
I recently came across a delicious new brand of organic sourdough bread made from whole grain flours with zero additives, no oil, no yeast, no preservatives and nothing artificial. Made by Manna Organics, “Bavarian Style Sunny Sourdough” has a delicious moist texture with a pleasantly tangy taste fans of sourdough bread will love! This delicious [...] -
Healthy Travel Tips: Get Your Greens On the Go (Watch Video)
It’s been almost one year since I’ve been on my green drink kick. I started drinking green smoothies after the 4th of July segment I did in NYC for Good Morning America last year. I brought my good friend Cherie with me on the trip and we went to Pure Food and Wine, a gourmet [...]
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Other Recent Articles
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Kid (& Baby)-Friendly Healthy Caribbean Pineapple-Coconut Popsicles (Grown Ups Love ‘Em Too!)
Where I live, in south Florida, summer heat is just beyond brutal. You know if you spend anytime at all outdoors you’ll be a sweaty mess in about 5 minutes (at least this is my experience). Nothing cools you down or refreshes you faster on a sweltering hot summer Florida day than an ice cold [...]
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Family-Friendly 20 Minute Whole Foods Meal: White Bean–Butternut Squash Ragout and Polenta Squares
Here’s a “family-friendly” recipe I created a few years ago for the soccer-moms on my son’s soccer team (it got such rave reviews it ended up in my Whole Foods Diet Cookbook and was recently featured on GoodBite). Soccer practice was always right at dinnertime. I’d sit around with all the moms and we’d all [...]
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Healthy Whole Foods Recipe: Orange and Asparagus Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette (Watch Video!)
I realize a lot of people think eating a salad of any sort should score them big points in the healthy eating department. But, I’ve been around the salad block and I know salads aren’t always healthy. If you pile on the wrong sort of things (think globs of cheese, heavy cream-based dressings, processed meats, [...]
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Healthy Foil Meals: SO EASY Mexican Shrimp Fajitas in Foil
Hands down, our foil-pack recipes have to be one of the world’s easiest and least stressful methods for making meals in minutes. All you have to do is wrap, bake and EAT! Seriously, what could be simpler than wrapping a bunch of stuff in tin foil and baking it to perfection? Did I mention tasty? [...]
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Healthy Recipe Makeover for The Strip House Restaurant’s Scallops over Corn & Edamame Succotash
I’m still talking about the food from our Vegas trip. SO good!! The night we went to see LOVE: Beatles Circque de Soleil (which, by the way, was by far the best Circque de Soleil act we have seen to date) we followed the show with an amazing meal at The Strip House located on [...]
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Healthy 4th of July Recipe: Picnic Pasta Salad with Red Peppers, Chives, and Goat Cheese
With July 4th right around the corner, my fellow foodies are surely giving some thought as to what they will be eating. If there’s ever a time when food takes center stage, holidays are IT! But, for whatever reason, special days and holidays are notorious occasions for igniting out-of-control unhealthy food splurges. I seriously sometimes [...] - All Recent Articles
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Ivy Larson
Andy Larson, M.D.
