Ask a Dietitian: Can the Mediterranean Diet Prevent Chronic Disease?

Denine Stracker is a Registered Dietitian and member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She completed the Dietetics program at New York University and her internship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Denine has lived in Barcelona for two years and works as a writer, teaching assistant and nutritionist in her private practice while pursuing her Masters in Public Health- Nutrition at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She will be contributing monthly to the BWN blog regarding various nutrition and health topics.

Around the House, About Town with Donna

Making your house a home can be a challenge for some.  Doing that in a foreign country can be even more intimidating.  We turn to Donna Kelley,of Kelley Interior Designs to not only help us figure out how to make our homes beautiful but also share her insider tips on where to find the best pieces in Barcelona.

Be Active: How to Lose Weight Using Progressive Training Models

Sarah is a qualified personal trainer and fitness instructor who has worked for Active-8 Personal Training for the last 4 years in Barcelona. She has helped many clients in Spain, and internationally, to adopt a healthier lifestyle and take up sports. She specialises in pre and post pregnancy training and training for weight loss/building muscle and sports performance. She will be contributing to the BWN blog every month on a fitness related topic. To learn more about Active-8 please click here. (http://www.active-8.es  )

Ask and Expert: How to make your own Spanish dictionary

If you have a Spanish language question to be answered, please e-mail us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). We could feature it in an upcoming article.

Our expert today is Nuria Freixas runs Expats in Barcelona and a business member of the BWN.  She has been teaching Spanish for 10 years.

What Makes Spain Tick: Eating and Drinking

Valerie Collins has lived in Barcelona for 39 years and is co- author of the popular book In The Garlic: Your Informative, Fun Guide to Spain. She has also written more than 50 Speak Up movie guides and numerous magazine articles as well as several published short stories. She will be writing a monthly contribution for BWN blog about various cultural aspects of expat life in Spain and sharing her personal stories behind the excerpts from the book. To learn more about her and her work, please visit her website.