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How Healthy is Your County?
March 10, 2010 – 6:00 am | 3 Comments
How Healthy is Your County?

The annual County Health Rankings have been released. How healthy is your county? A great interactive chart.

10 Tips for Choosing Healthier Proteins
March 1, 2010 – 9:49 pm | One Comment
10 Tips for Choosing Healthier Proteins

What I’d like to share is some quick guidelines of how you can choose a little more wisely, if you choose to eat meat, poultry and seafood.

Top 10 Food Rules
February 10, 2010 – 4:27 pm | 5 Comments
Top 10 Food Rules

Eat at a table. Our “rush, rush society” has led us to shove food down our throats as an afterthought to our schedules. Eating at a table allows your brain some real down-time and usually results in fewer calories consumed. And, no you can’t bring reading material or check your email!

How to Lose 5 Pounds
January 12, 2010 – 1:53 pm | 9 Comments
How to Lose 5 Pounds

I’ve been emphasizing small goals for New Year’s Resolutions because they’re the easiest to keep. Also a little success gives you a boost as you work towards your final goal. So here’s my plan, what I actually do, to lose five pounds. Depending on how much you have to lose, just take a week off and then repeat.

5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution
December 28, 2009 – 10:57 am | 3 Comments
5 Steps to a Successful New Year’s Resolution

I did a little research and found one sobering statistic. A survey done this time last year found that 66% of Americans have made New Year’s Resolutions and 17% actually managed to keep them.

Maintaining Success
August 31, 2009 – 6:13 pm | 5 Comments
Maintaining Success

There are some bleak statistics out there. One study states that 83% of people who diet gain it all back plus more within two years. Losing 5 to 10 percent of your body is actually a relatively simple task. It’s a short-term assignment filled with lots of eating less and lots of moving more. It’s when the dieter shifts back to “normal” living that diets fail.

I Love Blueberries!
August 24, 2009 – 10:26 pm | 6 Comments
I Love Blueberries!

Blueberries are one of the most potent weapons we have to stay healthy. Here’s why.

A Little Tummy & A Lot of Confidence
August 21, 2009 – 1:07 pm | 8 Comments
A Little Tummy & A Lot of Confidence

Women are happy to see a little pooch and a lot of confidence coming from a “normal-sized” woman in Glamour Magazine.

Mamavation Contest Starts
July 10, 2009 – 4:53 pm | No Comment
Mamavation Contest Starts

We are hoping that by focusing on one Mom lots of other people will learn smart, useful information and be inspired to make changes in their own lives. Any positive change, small or large, is a victory in my mind.

Best Summer Veggies
July 6, 2009 – 3:00 pm | 2 Comments
Best Summer Veggies

One of the sweetest part about being a New Englander is when the local summer crops come in.