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What does a healthy life mean to you?

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This week we celebrate National Public Health Week. This week gives us a chance to think about an answer to the question: what does it mean to live a healthy life? I mean, to be truly healthy?

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Sustainable Food 101

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Food connects us with our world view, our taste buds, and our wallets. It is an expression of our culture. Today, I am going to expand on my food philosophy. While my foundational knowledge of food comes from my science background, not all of my food choices are based on the nutrition they provide.

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8 Tips for Healthy Eating on a Budget

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To celebrate National Nutrition Month, I wanted to focus on eating healthfully. Many folks don’t feel that they can eat healthy food because it is too expensive. Here are 8 tips that you can use eat healthy and save money.

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Creative Productivity, Healthy Living

Want More Sleep? Ask Yourself These Questions

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This week, we celebrate national sleep awareness week. And let me tell you, it couldn’t come soon enough. This upcoming weekend, we will be “springing forward” for daylight savings, and will be losing an hour of sleep. So, this post will (hopefully) encourage you to focus on your sleep this week, and present you with strategies to create better sleep habits for the future.

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Essential Oils: Where to Get the Facts

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With so much health information available to us, how do we separate the myths from the facts? Readers have been sending me some great questions about essential oils. While there is quite a bit of scientific evidence that exists (and is emerging) about essential oils, it is in the interpretation of these scientific studies where some myths come from.

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Healthy Living, Purposeful Growth

Brighten your Winter Blues with these 9 Strategies

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This year, the Northeast has truly experienced w-i-n-t-e-r. In fact, Boston, Massachusetts has endured a total of 95.7 inches (that’s almost 8 feet!) of snow during the 2014-2015 winter season. Needless to say, there are a lot of folks are cooped up inside.

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5 Minutes Every Day to Inspire Healthy, Purposeful, and Productive Living

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As we kick off American Heart Month this week, I want to introduce a topic that not only addresses physical heart health, but also celebrates the healthy feeling that comes from having heart. And, this particular subject is a personal challenge of mine.

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Healthy Living

The Oat: A Tribute

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There you are, looking out the window at a cold winter morning. The air has a chill you can’t shake. Enter my best winter breakfast friend: oatmeal. Pour the grains in a bowl, add liquid, pop in the microwave, sprinkle with a favorite topping. In a few minutes, you have a warm, chewy mouthful of comforting oatmeal. Goodbye chilly, hello cozy!

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17 Simple Switches to Save you up to 57 Pounds this New Year

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Let’s make this message simple: weight loss is complicated. In order to reach and keep a healthy weight, you must make changes that you can commit to for life. And you must at least consider food, exercise, sleep, emotional health, stress, occupation, and your environment.

SO, this post begins with a big caveat. While the focus is on swapping foods and highlighting calories, reaching a healthy weight requires so much more than calorie counting. Therefore, the calories listed in this post are simply meant to give you an illustration of how small choices can make a big impact over time.

Without further adieu, here are 17 swaps you can make this year that when combined, save up to 57 pounds worth of calories! 1

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Notes:

  1. What do I mean by “saving” pounds? In a perfect world, if you lived the same life this year as you did last year (ate the same, slept the same, exercised the same, etc) and ONLY switched this one item, you would lose the “saved” pounds. Because we don’t live in a perfect world, these calculations are not a guarantee. Remember: this is meant to illustrate the big impact one simple swap could have! ↩
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Pile More Plant-Based Foods on Your Plate!

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…And Get the Protein You Need

With a turkey-filled Thanksgiving behind us, many of us are on animal protein overload. Not to worry! I am here to fill you in on how to pile more plant-based proteins on your plate and still get the nutrition you need.

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