Feature: Fitness Flash

Fitness expert, diet book author, and retired bodybuilder and fitness competitor, Christine Lakatos, offers concise fitness articles –– dieting, food facts, nutrition, exercise, and more –– for those interested in losing fat, getting fit, increasing energy as well as general health and wellness. Fitness Flash includes E.A.M. education, practical application, tips, and motivation.

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• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Ten: Alcohol

  This final installment brings you the good, the bad, and the ugly in consuming alcohol. Add, "What you drink” to your 2011 New Year’s Resolution list.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Dec 29, 2010

• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Nine: Meal Replacement Drinks

  Beware: Just like meal replacement bars, meal replacement drinks are used to entice the consumer, via quick-fix scams and false promises.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Dec 21, 2010

• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Eight: Juice (Fruit and Vegetable)

  "Should I have a V8" or any commercial fruit juice or veggie drink? It all depends.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Dec 13, 2010

• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Seven: Sports Drinks and More

  With so many pre-made beverages (sports and other types of drinks) on the market today, what should a "concerned dieter" do?

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Nov 27, 2010

• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Six: Soda

  Avoid weight gain, obesity, and certain health issues: eliminate or cut down on soda – regular and diet.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Jun 26, 2010

• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Five: Milk and the Dairy Industry

  Our beverage expedition takes a rather disturbing detour, the abuses and future of our dairy cows and other livestock.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Jun 09, 2010

• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Four: Tea

  From a 5000-year-old Chinese legend, to a popular worldwide beverage that offers countless health and wellness benefits.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Jun 02, 2010

• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Three: Coffee

  Our “beverage expedition” takes you as far back as 800 A.D. and brings us up to 21st century coffee — Starbucks.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on May 18, 2010

• What You Drink Impacts Your Diet, Part Two: Water

  Water, the "fountain of wellness," is our first STOP on this "beverage expedition!”

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on May 03, 2010

• Weight Loss: What You Drink Impacts Your Diet - Part One

  This ten-part series, a "beverage expedition" of sorts, will uncover how liquid consumption affects your weight, health and wellness, for better or worse.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Apr 20, 2010

• Protein, Energy, Diet, and Nutrition Bars: Fit or Fake?

  The answer is both; however, it all depends on what’s in your meal replacement bar –– the ingredients.

  Opinion by Christine Lakatos — on Apr 13, 2010