I write about health topics for all kinds of markets — mostly magazines, but also books, blogs, web sites, corporations, and associations. My credits include Natural Health, Health, MSN.com, Reader’s Digest, Shape, Fit Pregnancy, MSN.com, Revolution.com, You & Your Family, Pilates Style, Oxygen, American Profile, American Legion, Prevention, Rodale Books, and HarperCollins.

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Pick Your Protein Powder
Experience Life Magazine
Protein powders are one of the most popular supplements around. Athletes and bodybuilders have long used them as a convenient way to feed their post-workout needs. But for the ordinary person trying to fit a regular workout into a busy schedule, is protein powder worth a try?

Interval Training Tips and Tricks
MSN.com
Fitness trainers and coaches have used interval training for years, and the exercise method has never been more popular among personal trainers than it is today. Here’s how it can help you kick your workout up a notch.

Stop Weight Loss Sabateurs
MSN.com
Everyone has heard these rules of weight loss: Eat less; exercise more. Ah, if only it were that easy. Despite our best intentions, real life often gets in the way of meeting our weight-loss goals. Here’s how to keep real live from getting in the way of your goals.

Eat Smart At Parties
MSN.com
Parties should be fun, even when you’re watching your weight. But it’s easy to blow your eating plan when endless buffet tables and party trays tempt you at every turn. Here are 10 tips to help you survive going out.

Fighting Fitness Foes
MSN.com
Even with the best fitness intentions, fitness plateaus, lack of motivation and impossible schedules can send your workout careening off track. Here’s how to avoid five common fitness roadblocks.

Say Yes to Yoga
You & Your Family (Endorsed by the AMWA)
Want to stay fit during pregnancy and get back into pre-pregnancy shape afterward? Then practice yoga: It’s not only safe and effective, it comes with surprising benefits, such as improving labor and delivery.

Mind Over Anxiety
American Legion Magazine
Whether it’s the economy, the traffic, or a speech you have to give, stressful situations are a fact of life you can’t control. Carrying around too much stress can harm your health.Fortunately, changing how you react to the stress in your life can ease the effects.

Is your diet stressing you out?
American Legion Magazine
When you’re under stress, the last thing you want to worry about is nutrition. Unfortunately, the same food that feels good going down may lead to more stress down the road. Change the food, and you may actually lower stress levels.

Getting Healthy Together
Natural Health (cover story)
We’re connected to our families by more than just our genes. We breathe the same air, drink the same water, and eat the same meals. All that sharing means we have enormous influence, for better or for worse, on each others health …

Keep Your Family Healthy
Natural Health
Bad habits — like skipping breakfast, not sleeping enough, not talking to each other, or watching TV nonstop — can affect the whole family. But better choices are habit forming, too. Here’s how to make positive changes that will affect your whole family.

The Green Pregnancy: 5 Steps to Going Green
Fit Pregnancy (cover story)
When you’re pregnant, living a green lifestyle takes on a new importance. It’s not about following trends to ease eco-guilt. It’s about creating a world your baby can grow and thrive in. Your body is your child’s first environment. Here’s how to make it safe …

Tired? Try Some Sushi
Health Magazine
A common thyroid gland disorder can pile on pounds, sap your energy, and leave you achy, bloated, and moody. the problem: hypothyroidism, or when you’re low on thyroid hormones. Experts now think lifestyle changes–even a little sushi …

The Path to Endurance
Experience Life Magazine (cover story)
Jim Vranas isn’t the kind of guy who just sits around. The 82-year-old World War II veteran and scientific glassblower (he made the first glass model of the DNA molecule) has always been on the go. That is, until about a month after …

Eating for Energy
Experience Life Magazine
If you’re running on empty, drop the candy bar and fuel up on healthy foods that keep you going strong. Making a few small changes in the way you eat can free up reserves of energy you didn’t realize you had. Once you understand how your current habits undermine your energy, you’ll know exactly how to turn your fuel crisis around …

Lost in Translation
Alternative Medicine Magazine (cover story)
In Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric,” and he was right about one thing: The body’s electrical messages to the brain-not the brain itself-color our world. But what if your body’s messages misfire …