Nutritionist David Grotto wants Miss Lori to be fiber-licious this week

For those of you tracking my healthy path it is Week #2, and it is starting with a major objective; to increase the fiber and potassium in my diet. [Read more...]

Miss Lori is teaming up with the Tropicana OJ Express to put the Good back in Morning

 

One in Four Americans Start the Day off in a Bad Mood And 34 Million People Skip Breakfast Regularly[i]

Tropicana Tour Stops In Chicago to Promote Good Nutrition, Put the “Good” Back in Morning


[i] Sterling-Rice Group Survey, 2009

Did you know that here in Illinois about 85% of people don’t get the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables each day. Eighty Five Percent!!! That’s criminal. For the last four years I have been working hard to change that with my WTTW PBS Kids Great Food Fan Van Summer tours. [Read more...]

Miss Lori has to choose between more sleep and a workout in the early morning

It seriously makes a difference in my day. What, you ask? Getting on my little stepper for at least 10 minutes, sometime in the 6 o’clock hour, right away in the morning, before I start my day. Pretty specific stuff huh? Well, it is actually. It wasn’t always though. [Read more...]

Quaker Oats wants you to CrEATe Your Day

I started my day with a very happy tummy this morning thanks to Quaker Instant Oatmeal. When I was a kid I used to eat oatmeal all the time. But it was very plain, (and kind of lumpy to tell you the truth). But lately I have gone back to the future. I have been eating oatmeal, but not my mother’s oatmeal, my children’s oatmeal. Oatmeal of the future. What is oatmeal of the future you ask? It’s whatever you want it to be. You get to CrEATe Your Day. The great folks at Quaker Oatmeal want me to think outside the box and get creative with my oatmeal. [Read more...]