Blog — tracie euker

The amazing story of how a career schoolteacher & mother of two went from ‘skinny-fat’ to winning Figure competitions at age 41! A few short years ago Tracie Euker was the very definition of “normal” in the best sense of the word. An Elementary art teacher in Sullivan County, New York, Tracie had taught school for fifteen years. Happily married and the mother of two beautiful children, at age 39, normal Tracie suddenly developed an Tracie Euker urge to join a gym and immerse herself in fitness. Which was odd for normal Tracie; other than a brief fling with aerobics...

Eating Beans Helps Lower Cholesterol Tracie Euker Consuming as little as one-half cup of cooked dry beans every day helped volunteers lower their total cholesterol levels in an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study. These results, published in the November issue of the Journal of Nutrition by the ARS scientists and their colleagues, add to a growing—and convincing—body of evidence that beans are a heart healthy food choice. The researchers tested 80 volunteers aged 18 to 55 years. Half were healthy, while half had at least two symptoms that lead to metabolic syndrome, a combination of conditions that signal a risk...