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Basic Meal Plan for Healthy Eating…with a few ideas for Kids who Won’t Eat Veggies!
Breakfast Whole grain cereal with milk and a banana Whole grain toast with natural peanut butter or soy butter Yogurt with fruit or granola Apple and string cheese Lunch Sandwich with whole grain bread and lean meat or tuna Apples and carrots with hummus or yogurt dip Yogurt with fruit or granola Low fat string…
Read MoreWanting What You Already Have Can Lead to Better Health
I was cleaning out some boxes and drawers this weekend, and I came across this card that one of my sons had given me for my birthday a few years ago. It was so sweet that I thought I would post it here. “Today is my mom’s birthday. I hope she likes this because I…
Read MoreLosing and Gaining Weight…it is not as simple as calories in/calories out
Guest article by Dr. Martha Arden, part of the “Strong Mamas Fit Families” Team. When I heard that the New England Journal of Medicine published a special article several weeks ago entitled “Myths, Presumptions, and Facts about Obesity,” I rushed to my hospital library’s website to download the article. I’ve often wondered about many of…
Read MoreTaking Out the Trash on a Cellular Level (aka Exercise!!)
In a recent New York Times Health article, it states, “When ticking off the benefits of physical activity, few of us would include intracellular housecleaning. But a new study suggests that the ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body’s cells may be one of its most valuable, if least…
Read MoreA Place to Begin: First Step is to Change Your Mind for Peace of Mind
Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men get completely thrown off track! All sorts of things can happen in life to derail us from our stated goals…death of a loved one, job loss, and divorce top the stressers list in nearly all surveys. There are some instances when it is most appropriate to…
Read MoreTo Sleep, Perchance to Dream…The Critical Importance of Getting Enough Shut-Eye
We have all heard the doctors’ recommendations…8 glasses of water a day, walk 30 minutes a day, get 8 hours of sleep a night…but it seems that the sleep request/command is the one least adhered to and possibly the most important to our health. We all know that we feel better when we are well-rested…your…
Read MoreSpring! Give Us Not to Think So Far Away
A Prayer In Spring – Poem by Robert Frost Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by…
Read MoreTale of a Mother’s Love
I love you forever, no matter what. When my son Mark was four years old, he was having one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days when nothing seemed to go his way and he couldn’t do anything right (in his mind). I told him, “don’t worry Marky, I love you unconditionally.”…
Read MoreLove Our Hearts!
We all need to take care of our hearts…both physically and emotionally. If your heart needs some emotional stability or exercise, making plans with a friend or relative for coffee or a walk or dinner is a great start. The event doesn’t have to cost much…put more time into choosing WHO this lucky person will…
Read MoreClutter-Free Kitchen Changes the Whole House and then Your Whole Life
I love having my clients over to my house to show them what a “Fit Family” kitchen can look like! They are amazed at how clutter free it is…and it doesn’t look like there is a lot of food there, yet I’m able to feed my 3 teen boys every day! As Peter Walsh, of…
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