healthy lifestyle

Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right!

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March is National Nutrition Month®! National Nutrition Month® is an annual nutrition education campaign focused on helping consumers make informed food choices, while developing lifelong healthy eating and exercise behaviors.  This year’s theme is, “Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right!”  What does this theme mean to you? Write a comment about what the theme “Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right” means […]

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Bringing Back Pee Wee’s Secret Word of the Day!

I think it is time to bring back Pee Wee’s Secret word of the day!  Who doesn’t like a secret word…especially when that word is a healthy one Today’s secret word is VEGETABLE!  I don’t hear this word enough, which probably means most people are not consuming enough of them.  Below is a chart based on the USDA’s MyPlate that shows […]

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Healthier Food Choices For Kids

   

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The New Year’s Cleanse

Over coffee and great conversation with friends this past Saturday, the buzz word of the table seemed to be “cleanse.”   Everyone loves talking about how they are going to go on a cleanse diet or eating plan in the New Year!  Which by the way, I hate the word “cleanse.” Eating healthy is not a “cleanse” that […]

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Getting motivated for 2014 with YouTube!

Happy (almost) New Year! I am not a huge fan of making New Year’s Resolutions.  Most are short-lived goals that fade away as quickly as the New Year began.  If you want to see real long-term results, make a behavior change instead!  Making a healthy behavior a daily habit can take up to six months and requires a lot of […]

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Five Things I Learned on the MS Westerdam!

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I just returned from a very relaxing seven day vacation with my boyfriend.  We went on an Eastern Caribbean cruise.  Our stops included:  Grand Turk, San Juan, St. Maarten, and Half Moon Cay.   We had a wonderful time!  However, I would not recommend the cruise line Holland America for anyone under the age of 65. It is hard to […]

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