Westchester Magazine June 2009
Westchester Magazine's Health & Fitness issue.
You see them in the gym, on the street, and even in People magazine. But is “smart water”—you know, bottled water that has added minerals, flavors, and electrolytes—better than tap water for workouts? The ...
Is organic healthier than non-organic?
We go to a local expert to find out how diet and nutrition can influence whether your child will grow to their full potential.
Photo by Cathy Pinsky L ooking for a creative new way to shed pounds? Consider the Westchester Adventure Boot Camp. Personal trainer and Boot Camp owner Carla Braca runs the four-week program, designed strictly for ...
Meet White Plains Hospital’s Top Cardiac MD
The most commonly dispensed prescription drugs.
Who needs Hawaii? Let the Ironman have Kailua-Kona—we have our own triathlon right here (and the views along the route are just as pretty). Held this year on September 27, the Jarden Westchester Triathlon begins ...
Bored with your exercise routine? A change will do you good.
Pumping iron competitively has yielded just as much change on the inside for a Tarrytown female bodybuilder.
Does yoga offer any real health benefits?
“Smart” Water Drinks; the Westchester Triathalon; Hybrid Workouts; Female Bodybuilding; Is Organic Healthier?; The 10 Most Commonly Prescribed Medications; and More
- Mind, Body, Spirit - Vertigo, The Disease - Living With Autism - Doctors' Orders - Survival of the Fittest - 12 Super Foods - Alphamedical Soup - Rx for Fitness
These practitioners and specialists really will give you good reason to smile.
Openings, Closings, Kitchen Changes, Food Events.
Like its mother country, Brazil’s acai palm tree is a study in contrasts. Its leaves yield brooms and baskets worth pennies. Its berries yield juice and powders worth $66 million. That’s last year’s total sales ...
Summer’s here and the sippin’ should be easy.
Dan Barber, a pioneer in the food-to-table movement and chef/co-owner of Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Blue Hill in Manhattan, was named the nation’s top chef by the James Beard Foundation last month. We ...
Your Best Dish Pig ’n square (pied du cochon). It comes from the classic French preparation of “au pied de cochon,” which is simmered or roasted pigs’ feet. I slow-roast pork butt and simmer the ...
Oh, that Tess d’Urberville! Every strawberry season, her film image haunts me, that loaded scene of a ripe, blood-red berry raised to her quivering mouth. Suddenly, my own berry in hand, my lips part and ...
Meet the man in charge of your cellphone reception.