Fitness Magazine Kicks Off the Warmer Weather with Easy Healthy Recipes, Including Healthy Smoothie Recipes

NEW YORK, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- With the return of warmer weather, women are looking to Fitness Magazine and FitnessMagazine.com for healthy snack foods and easy, healthy recipes to get back in shape after the long winter. In response, FitnessMagazine.com has posted new healthy recipes along with updates to its most popular ones.

"We all know that healthy eating is one of the fastest ways to feel empowered and ready to make smart choices and at least small changes in our lives," said Kristen Diederich, Senior Editor of FitnessMagazine.com. "This is the time of year when women are eager to reevaluate their eating habits and add more healthy foods and low calorie snacks. Our website is full of suggestions to help them make the transition."

At FitnessMagazine.com, women will find easy healthy recipes for breakfast, lunch and multi-course dinners. There are recipes that make over a traditionally unhealthy recipe and turn it into something that's healthier and fewer calories, as well as recipes for produce that is in season and therefore more accessible and affordable. Women can also sign up to receive a free weekly newsletter with the latest delicious and healthy recipes, suggestions for putting together shopping lists, cooking tips and other health news.

In between meals, women are encouraged to choose healthy snack foods to boost their metabolism. FitnessMagazine.com presents photos and recipes for homemade snacks such as hummus with pita and peas, spiced maple yogurt, and tomato juice and cheese. Also available is a collection of the healthiest packaged snack foods you can buy in the grocery store. Vending machine snacks are discouraged, but in case of an emergency, FitnessMagazine.com ranks the top 10 vending machine snacks to avoid and their top 10 to choose in a pinch.

To help women recharge their batteries after a workout or for a quick meal to start the day, FitnessMagazine.com has a variety of healthy smoothie recipes with photos to match. These fruit smoothies come in many varieties, including strawberry, banana and flax; honeydew-kiwifruit; and whipped strawberry lemonade.

Women are invited to swap healthy recipes and share information with members of the Fitness Magazine community on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fitnessmag.

Tweeters can get daily healthy meal ideas, exercises, and news from Fitness Magazine: http://twitter.com/fitnessmagazine.

About FitnessMagazine.com

Developed by Fitness Magazine (http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/), it's the premier website for exercise, health, and nutrition information. From our Personal Fitness Trainer to our healthy recipes, from video workouts to our free exercise logs, FitnessMagazine.com is the guide you need to help you reach your fitness goals and celebrate your successes. FitnessMagazine.com is dedicated to delivering strategies and tools that help women make little changes to achieve big success. With a you-can-do-it attitude, our workouts, health and beauty advice, diet plans and success stories motivate readers to get strong in mind, body and spirit.

SOURCE Fitness Magazine