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Before you get carried away this Thanksgiving and need a weight-loss spa because you sat around with the fam and stuffed yourself, take these quick health & wellness tips from SpaFinder. We’ll help you get through the holiday time while staying healthy.

TV news legend and founder of Camp Reveille is the inspiration for our healthy side-dish expose. Straight from Joan Lunden’s Healthy Cooking, we’re offering up four side-dishes for Thanksgiving that are sure to add some healthy but delicious flavor to your family’s feast.

If your Thanksgiving holiday is typically a weekend-long eat-a-thon — leftovers and all — remember that your feast doesn’t need to be all high calorie decadence. We have some tried and true Thanksgiving recipes that are seasonably fall-fabulous and simply deelish! (Plus, seconds won’t leave you in a food coma.)

As guests can attest, the food at Red Mountain Spa & Resort is delicious with a healthy flair. Here’s a taste of two seasonal recipes that originated from this breathtakingly beautiful getaway spa in St. Ivins, Utah. For an easy dinner, try Red Mountain’s Grilled Eggplant Rolls for and for that sweet tooth, indulge in Pumpkin Cheesecake with graham cracker crumb crust.

From Mii amo’s first cookbook, A Journey of Taste: Favorite Recipes from Mii Amo Spa in Sedona (Chronicle Books), we bring you two of the more than 50 recipes requested by visitors to Mii amo.

This week’s spa recipes are from Dr. Andrew Weil, winner of this year’s Readers’ Choice Visionary Award. He’s been an influential leader in the worlds of spa and wellness, as director of integrative health and healing at Miraval Arizona and more. Selected from his book “The Healthy Kitchen” with Rosie Daley, we’ve paired one traditional recipe, Andy’s Vegetable Stock with a more unique small dish, Cilantro Walnut Pesto to give you a taste of what make him a visionary in healthy living.

The legendary Canyon Ranch spa has been serving up fresh, seasonal spa cuisine for more than 20 years. A taste of the incredible flavors of fall – apples, maple, and more – are in each of these three specially selected recipes for our “Autumn in New England” issue of Club Spa. Get the recipes and nutritional information for the Apple Cranberry Salmon Salad, the Cod with Cauliflower Tomato Broth and the light but delicious Maple Walnut Angel Food Cake for dessert.

The legendary Golden Door Spa in Escondido, California offers guests customized program in fitness, nutrition, and beauty. Now you can enjoy their reknowned spa cuisine at home! A special highlight is on Fall recipes including Jam Dot Cookies and Beer Steamed Shrimp Cocktail with Avocado Vinaigrette & Mixed Greens from Chef Dean Rucker.

Spa Recipes: Salad Sensations

Pair protein with summer freshness and enjoy these salad sensations from two top getaway spas. The Curry Chicken Salad recipe fromGreen Mountain at Fox Run and the Crab and Watermelon Salad with Ginger Gelée recipe from The Phoenician are sure to leave you wanting to eat more salad – and feeling healthy!

Enjoy the sweet taste of summer with a refreshing Pink Grapefruit Champagne Granita, a delicious Visualize World Peach Smoothie and more from 3 top spas.

If you could see the book shelf in my office (and a list of all the books I have read in the past three decades) you might be surprised to see how many of those books have been about weight loss. Not only has this topic been part of my studies and lifelong career, (I […]

Food, glorious food. It is an essential part of health and wellness. So whether you eat only kosher, organic or want to try juice fasting there is an abundance of choices.

Spas are a wonderful place for female bonding, and the party flows seamlessly. If you want to combine pampering with bachelorette partying, get started with these tips on HOW TO throw a Spa Bachelorette.

How odd. On the front page of Thursday’s NY Times this week, I noticed this headline: “F.D.A. Orders Warning Label for Botox.” Yet when reading the article I found a far more interesting and important issue than what the headline touts. Let me know if you agree. Here is how the article began: “Botox and […]

The spa industry has attracted more women than men here in the U.S. ever since I can remember. When I started in the industry in 1975, although there weren’t statistics, my guess is that the ratio of women to men was likely 95% to 5%. The industry figure is currently 70% to 30% although if […]

Pure Food and Wine Satisfies the Well Traveled Spa Professionalby Susie Ellis Where do you take a group of spa professionals (from Hong Kong, Bangkok, Sweden, Canada, and from various cities around the U.S.) to dinner? These men and women travel the world several times a year to visit great spas, so my husband and […]

During my short visit to the Cliffs Communities in South Carolina last weekend, six of us had the chance to go via helicopter to see all of their communities from the air. It was a beautiful sunny day so we were able to see all of their golf courses, the lakes, miles of the nature […]

A visit to the Evian Spa at Three on the Bund was on my list of “must do’s” while I was in Shanghai. Not only did its opening several years ago cause quite a splash, but Alexa Brue reviewed it in the May/June issue of Luxury Spa Finder Magazine, giving it a mixed review which […]

You may have noticed that this is becoming a regular Friday feature on my blog. I’ve decided that sharing with you spa news of interest might offer additional information that you find helpful. What you may not know is that I select the news to share with you out of a barrage of incoming items […]

Even if you have never been to Brenner’s Park Hotel and Spa in Baden-Baden, Germany, you may have seen this famous photo of their pool, which overlooks a glorious park. We were lucky enough to be there on a crisp sunny fall day where the leaves were turning, and I had to wear a scarf […]