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Hot summer days and nights are the perfect time to try new salads with cool lettuce and fresh fruit with light, crisp flavors. Cal-a-Vie’s Chef Steve Pernetti brings us the perfect vegetarian rice and seitan salad with bursts of juicy grapes that will be sure to refresh guests at summer picnics and barbeques! Enjoy Pina Colada Sorbet as a post-summer meal treat!

Red Mountain Resort and Spa’s hearty granola is a great way to start the day, or to snack healthfully throughout it. Make a big batch for the week and combine with yogurt or milk and fresh fruit for a delicious and nutritious breakfast!

Since its inception in 2004 NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” has been inspiring both contestants and viewers to fight obesity and poor health while encouraging them to change their lives and work toward their fitness goals. The show’s dynamic trainers and insight into the world of healthy living has proved to capture the attention of viewers all over the world.

Green Mountain Spa at Fox Run is a health and weight-loss retreat for women, specializing in non-diet weight loss since 1973. Founded on the vision that diets do not work, Green Mountain at Fox Run stresses the idea that eating right is critical to successful, permanent health and weight management. Green Mountain has helped women to make realistic changes in their lives in order to help them achieve their health and weight loss goals, and to maintain them as well. With delicious, nutritious, and easy prepare meals and snacks, Green Mountain has created a nutrition program that is realistic and can benefit women even without dedicating time to a retreat. Sample some of the healthy and satisfying cuisine with these Green Mountain recipes.

Looking to slim down before summer? Get a kick start on your weight-loss routine by reserving a getaway spa retreat at one of these top spas that specialize in helping guests get fit and lead a healthy lifestyle. These properties pack on the amenities, not the pounds, and won SpaFinder’s 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards in the category of “best for weight loss” to prove it.

Looking for a low-cal, low sugar beverage option that still satisfies your taste buds? Try Healthy Balance, which has 75% less sugar, carbs and calories than traditional juices on the market. Aside from being “good for you”, it’s available nationwide in 12 fun flavors like Pomegranate Blueberry Açaí, is a partner of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and even has coupons on the Healthy Balance site. Cheers to that!

The Big 4 Restaurant at The Huntington Hotel and Nob Hill Spa, and its chef Gloria Ciccarone-Nehls are known in San Francisco for their award-winning contemporary American cuisine. Known for specializing in wild-game, Ciccarone-Nehls may not be the first person that you would associate with “spa cuisine”. However her expertise does not end at delicacies for the carnivorous, the kitchen at the hotel and spa prepare menus seasonally, making full use of the local, Northern California agriculture. The Huntington Hotel has an excellent, light spa menu that perfectly complements its meaty menu.

When I got pregnant, I was prepared for the nine-month moratorium on sushi, margaritas, and unpasteurized cheese. Modern American pregnancy, as everyone knows, comes with a long list of dietary no-nos. What I didn’t realize is that the list of spa prohibitions is just as punishing. Hot baths were a daily de-stressor, and the news that I’d have to give them up, along with saunas, steams, and a handful of spa treatments, dismayed me. Frankly, it’s hard to imagine a more welcome time for any spa treatment than when your lower back and shoulders are aching from your newly recalibrated center of gravity, your feet feel fat as flippers, and your supposed pregnancy glow is mottled with new freckles.

Sometimes a salad at the spa is just not enough. This hearty and spicy sweet duck dish from Red Mountain Spa is the perfect mix of healthy and satisfyingly indulgent. Using extra-lean Muscovy duck, you get a delicious meaty meal that’s made from fresh ingredients and is full of fiber, antioxidants and vitamin C.

SpaFinder is passionate about bringing awareness to the dangers of melanoma and how easily preventable it can be with the right amount of care. Keeping an eye on moles and freckles can have a huge impact on preventing the spread of melanomas, a huge advantage as once the cancers spread they become increasingly difficult to treat.

Appetizers, dips and other starters can start to really add up calories before you even take a whiff of your main course. But Robert Pritikin of the Pritikin Longevity Center & Spa in Miami, has developed a solution for calorie counters everywhere, and it consists of delicious recipes that include classics that have been updated for a low-fat, health conscious alternative. The Pritikin Principle doesn’t ask us to try to defeat our hunger drive, but to satisfy it with nutritious foods that keep us satisfied while still allowing for weight loss.

My spa day commenced with an Epsom salt foot soak and a glass of organic tea in the Kipahulu Relaxation Room. This area is also known as “Maui Under the Stars” because the ceiling looks like a nighttime sky lit by constellations (fiber optic twinkling lights). The initial salt soak helped me relax, from toe to head, as native Hawaiian music played in the background.

Six Senses Spa believes that the food that they serve at their spa should be enjoyable, balanced cuisine. So as opposed to the overly lean, often unsatisfying diet food that is sometimes served to health conscious spa-goers Six Senses Spa focuses on the important dietary needs. This delicious salad is a perfect balance of satiating and healthy and includes lightly seared scallops (which are high in omega-3 and vitamin B-12) and loads of raw veggies. The summer is a perfect time for enjoying lovely seafood and crisp, raw vegetables since the longer vegetables are cooked the more nutrients deplete. So pick up some fresh ingredients and balance body and mind!

Southern cooking ain’t all deep fried and battered. Virginia Willis, chef and author of Bon Appétit, Y’all, serves up healthy and delicious Southern cuisine, plus she’ll be visiting Rancho La Puerta May 15 – May 22. Enjoy Virginia’s spa recipes: Valdosta Grilled Trout with Olive Oil and Thyme Toasted Pecans. It’s not just good for the soul, it’s good for you.

The Lodge at Woodloch, a SpaFinder Connoisseur Spa, offers a destination spa experience in picturesque surroundings in Pennsylvania’s lake region, less than 100 miles from NYC.  The fabulous spa cuisine is only part of the wonder of Woodloch.  Get a taste with these signature recipes: Vegetable Paella, Avocado Crab Cake with Temple Orange Glaze, and […]

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The spa & wellness community is coming together to lend a hand to the Haitian earthquake relief. Healing Arts for Haiti is February 12th at the Grand Hyatt, NYC at Grand Central Station, where attendees can receive services and every dollar raised will be donated to UNICEF, directly helping rescue and relief efforts in Haiti.

The dictionary says that toxic means “poisonous,” but modern cultural connotations far outstrip that definition. We speak in the same breath about the “toxic” effects of too many mochaccinos and martinis, the News at Eleven and the rush-hour commute. It’s become commonplace to think of the world as toxic.

Spa Body Makeover was the go-to choice for ABC’s Extreme Makeover and SpaFinder’s choice for the latest gourmet spa recipes. Stay spa healthy this holiday with these more-wholesome but delicious treats: Yam Mousse, Cranberry-Apple Crisp, Oatmeal Pumpkin Muffins. Spa Body Makeover is famous for creating weight loss programs that helps visitors rapidly change their body with natural methods that can be easily followed at home. These holiday recipes are keepers.

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.