Tips to stay active during the holiday season

The holidays can be full of joy and happiness but can also be full of stress and chaos. We get to spend time with loved ones doing fun things, but it can also be accompanied by busy schedules and delicious calorie dense foods. Couple that with cold weather, it can make physical activity hard to achieve and unfavorably alter our body composition.

Emotional eating, overeating, binge eating – is there a difference?

What is emotional eating? It can be positive (eating to celebrate an engagement, cake to celebrate a birthday) or negative (eating for relief, distraction, numbness), and is most often referred to in a negative way. People tend to reach for foods that are nutrient poor (not containing a lot of nutrients) leading to food guilt…