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Client-Generated Motivation
During your next group session, try this approach to fresh motivation.
Physical Activity Guidelines and You
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans provide science-based guidance to encourage Americans to improve health through appropriate physical activity. Let's explore how much, when, why, and how...
How Do Vitamins Work? Part Two
The How Do Vitamins Work? series continues with a closer look at fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins. What do they do? What foods contain them? Get the answers in today's post...
Under Pressure: Cooking with Pressure Cookers
Want to learn about pressure cookers? Check out these tips and tricks, links to resources, a free handout, and a list of 10 things that my team and I learned while testing pressure cookers...
The Benefits of Family Meals
Judy Doherty takes a look at the research about family meals.
Want a Free Nutrition Poster?
Wouldn't it be great if you had a new nutrition poster in time for the holidays?
Gain Control of Your Blood Sugar
According to the American Diabetes Association, 25.8 million people in the United States have diabetes. Whether you have diabetes already, just got a diagnosis of prediabetes, or have a history of diabetes in your family, then you should know that you can take steps to control your blood sugar.
Breaking News: Stroke Risk Update
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke Association (ASA) have teamed up to bring new guidelines for reducing the risk of a first stroke!
Announcement: Poster Contest Winners
We did another poster contest last month, and the submissions were fantastic! Who won? Find out in this week's post!
Fed Up: A Review
Lynn Grieger just watched Fed Up, the new documentary about food and exercise. Is it worth your time?
Health Literacy Month: Fruits and Vegetables
It's Health Literacy Month! To celebrate, I've brought out one of my very favorite handouts, just for you. Check it out!
Break the Grip of Fattening Fast Foods
Layne Lieberman is joining us on the blog today to talk about key health lessons she learned while living abroad.
Activity Idea: Beverage Buffet
Interactive Activity Ideas Week has come to a close and here is the grand finale!
November 2014
November is here! What resources are you going to use?
Diabetes Display with MyPlate
November is American Diabetes Month, and it?s a great time to raise awareness. Try this interactive display idea to promote healthful habits?
Might Reducing Salt Intake Promote ?Cardiovascular Disease?
The experience from England seriously undermines Dr. Oparil's editorial claim that the PURE study results ?... call into question the feasibility and usefulness of dietary sodium as a population-based strategy for reducing blood pressure.? This makes me wonder why none of the science writers and journalists who were so quick to parrot Dr. Oparil's opinions ever thought to ask why she believed the questionable data and opinions from the PURE researchers were not largely refuted by the real-life public health efforts ongoing in England.
Chop Test: A New Way to Prepare Vegetables
There?s a new approach in town, and this one will offer all the tools you need in order to prepare vegetables in healthful and tasty ways. It?s called the chop test.
Pep Up Your Holiday Table
This sweet-tart relish is great for topping poultry or fish. Add it to your Thanksgiving table!
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