Yoplait Lactose Free Yogurt Review and Prize Pack Giveaway [Closed]

I love my dairy products. Ice cream, milk, cheese, yogurt, I love them all, and consume them happily as often as my heart and stomach desire. Unfortunately, my partner has had a love/hate relationship with dairy for years. As someone with lactose intolerance, he often denies himself the foods that he wants to eat because of the uncomfortable and sometimes painful consequences that come with them. He is just one of millions of Americans who are lactose intolerant, and while passing on dairy can spare people the effects of when it disagrees with their stomachs, it can also have unintended health consequences.

The National Institute of Health has stated that when dairy is avoided, there are lower intakes of calcium and vitamin D in a person’s diet. These nutrients are important for building and caring …

Start Your Day Off Right with General Mills Cereal with Whole Grain First Ingredient — Cereal with the White Check Giveaway [Closed]

The most recent Dietary Guidelines recommend that people get at least 48 grams of whole grain in their daily diets. If you’re like me, you have no idea how that translates into how much of what you should be eating daily. I have never been able to crack the Dietary Guidelines Code. I can read as many food packages as I want, but after reading off a seemingly endless list of ingredients for everything I put into my cart at the grocery store, I still walk out of there with a wish and a hope that I have a week’s worth of daily whole servings of what my body needs. Isn’t this the stuff we all learned year after year in health class; if it was easy enough to teach to us then, then …

What Are the 5 Best Foods to Burn Fat?

Is it really possible to eat well and lose weight at the same time? You may have heard of something called “calorie negative” foods. These healthy foods require more energy to digest than the calories that they provide to the body. On top of that, calorie negative foods can also provide a source of vital nutrients to stimulate healthy digestion and metabolism to burn fat.

Without further ado, here are the top five foods to add to your diet to burn fat and stay healthy at the same time:

Celery: Celery is a calorie negative food that only has 19 calories per cup. And celery will help to you to effectively burn calories since it takes much more than 19 calories to prepare, chew, and fully digest a cup of this vegetable. Celery is also full …

Fiber One 80 Calories Cereal Review and Prize Pack Giveaway [Closed]

You know all of those Fiber One commercials that compare foods typically containing fiber to cardboard and then show seemingly random people at the supermarket trying samples of any of their products, only to be completely surprised by what they are tasting?

I recently had the opportunity to try a box of Fiber One 80 Calories cereal, thanks to MyBlogSpark, and I inadvertently reenacted the role of one of those seemingly random people at the fictional supermarket with the Fiber One sample booth. And that newer commercial where a mom and a dad are sitting at the kitchen table in the morning eating a bowl of Fiber One cereal and their kid wakes up, asks where his cereal is and they have him try “Number One” cereal hoping that it can pass off …

This Summer, Remember Green is Good with Sunkist Valencia Oranges

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sunkist. All opinions are 100% mine.

This week has brought on the official beginning of summer, but you would swear summer came early this year by the amount of humidity in the air; the kind of humidity that makes you feel sticky within ten minutes of walking outside. As we all know, different seasons bring on cravings for different flavors and in the summer, I cannot get enough fruit. It just so happens that summer is also peak season for Sunkist Valencia oranges, which is why they are also commonly called summer oranges.

So when you’re at your local market or grocery store and you’re picking through the bin of oranges, it’s likely that when you come across an orange with a bit of green …

Get Fit for Summer with Centrum and Enter to Win a Trip to LA or a Wii Fit Plus

It is never the wrong time to begin taking steps to becoming a healthier you. The version of yourself you had envisioned when the clock struck midnight and it was the beginning of a new year, full of new hopes, aspirations and motivation. Surely you knew that getting fit was the number one New Year’s resolution amongst those who make yearly resolutions, but did you know that nearly three out of five people who make that resolution break it before the end of that very first month?

As temperatures finally become more consistent–consistently warmer and hinting towards humidity–and retailers continue to spread the word about their new lines of swimsuits and other summer looks, bathing suit-ready bodies have quickly risen to the top of many people’s priority lists.

Celebrities have become very much like superheroes in …