Eat Clean Recipes
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Video for How to Make Grass-Fed Lamb Burgers (Greek Style!)
A few months ago we went boating with a group of friend to a place called Peanut Island. The island isn’t really as exciting as it sounds but it does have picnic tables and BBQ facilities so it’s a great place to bring all your friends, grill it up and leave (better than getting your [...]
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Fresh Tomato Soup (adapted from The White House Garden Cookbook)
We just got back from our vacation to D.C. (there we all are in front of the Washington Monument below) and we were lucky enough to get a tour of the White House. I was SO hoping we would get to see a glimpse of Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden but no such luck. The [...]
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5-Minute Healthy Lunch: “Eat Clean” Black Bean & Sprouted Corn Tortilla Stacks
Blake and I stopped by my mom and dad’s house around lunchtime last weekend and we were both starving. We headed straight for the fridge only to find it basically bare. However, mom insisted she could make us a meal if we gave her 5-minutes. My son shot me over the “this isn’t going to [...]
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Clean Eating
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Ivy on Fox News with Dr. Manny: Diet Tips for Healthy Eating and Weight Loss
Changing how you eat is not easy. Trust me, I know. Many of you know my story and you know I changed my diet after my diagnosis with MS in 1998 (I was 22 years old.) However, I’m STILL learning about nutrition on a daily basis and I’m still making changes to what I eat. [...]
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Is the Saturated Fat in Coconut Harmful?
If you read the ingredients in a lot of my “eat clean” 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 [...]
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How to Control Hunger: The Top 9 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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Circuit Training 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 [...]
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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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Hula Hoop Workout: “Hoopnastics” 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 Circuit Training Workout [...]
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Health Product Reviews
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Omega-3 PART 2/ Health Product Review: Choosing a Pure & Safe Fish Oil Supplement (Plus Enter to Win Contest!)
In Omega-3 PART 1 I talked about the many reasons you need omega-3 fats. You can read PART 1 by clicking HERE. Fish oil contains long-chain omega-3 fats in the form of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid DHA.) These long-chain fats have been linked to benefits in heart health, vision, brain function and immune diseases, just [...]
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Video Omega-3 PART 1: Why are Omega-3 Fats Important (Plus Enter to Win Contest!)
As most of you know, my husband, Andy Larson, is a general surgeon with a special interest in bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery). In addition to advocating a healthy diet plan (based on “clean eating”), he recommends omega-3 supplements in the form of pharmaceutical grade fish oil to all of his patients. But, because [...]
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Health Product Review: 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” for our health product reviews 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 [...]
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Other Recent Articles
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Video for How to Make Gluten-Free Chocolate Cookies/ A Clean Eating Recipe!
People always ask me where I get the idea for my recipes. A lot of times the stuff I make is a result of whatever ingredients happen to be in my fridge (and then, if the recipe actually ends up tasting good I jot the ingredients down, re-test and cross my fingers it works the second time.) [...]
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20-Minute “Eat Clean” Meal: Flounder with Red Pepper-Corn Confetti & “Presto” Parm-Free Vegan Pesto
Lately, 20-minutes is about as much time as I can swing putting dinner together as I’ve been working on a huge project the last few weeks and haven’t had a lot of free time (although I did manage a getaway to the Bahamas last week—so much fun!!) This “eat clean” meal is family-friendly and can be [...]
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Eat Clean Recipe for 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 “Eat Clean” Recipe: Gluten Free Tex-Mex Polenta Pizza
Everyone’s always asking for more ”Eat Clean” easy healthy recipes these days. 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 [...]
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Eat Clean: How To Make Healthy Asian Seaweed Salad
Every time I go to a sushi restaurant I order the seaweed salad, which is the perfect example of “clean eating” food! The seaweed salad is 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 [...]
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Manna Organics Bread: 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 [...]
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Ivy Larson
Andy Larson, M.D.
