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Cutting Grocery Costs without Cutting Nutrition
Simple, healthy, and affordable ways to weather the rising price of food
by Karen Collins, R.D., American Institute of Cancer Research
Grocery prices are projected to increase again in 2008 – that’s following 2007’s highest annual increase in 17 years. But surviving these tough economic times doesn’t have to mean sacrificing good nutrition. Some simple strategies can help you cut food costs and eat more healthfully, too.
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Wellness Workbook
How to Achieve Enduring Health and Vitality
by John W. Travis, M.D., Regina Sara R
For more than 30 years, John W. Travis, M.D., and Regina Sara Ryan have introduced thousands to the concept of wellness, a practical whole-self approach to healthy living. From how you breathe to how you view the world, the 12 interconnected elements of the Wellness Energy System affect all aspects of your life: your disposition toward injury and illness, your relationships, your general level of happiness, and beyond. In an optimal state of wellness, you are less prone to disease, stress, and other life-depleting factors. Thoroughly revised, THE NEW WELLNESS WORKBOOK presents a comprehensive self-assessment and hundreds of exercises and ideas to help you take control of your health and happiness.
Top 10 Food Mistakes
Food Mistake #1: You reach for multigrain bread or cereal
Foods labeled 7-grain or multigrain may seem like the healthiest choices—especially with new findings showing that a diet rich in whole grains protects against heart disease, cancer, and other ills.
The famed Nurses' Health Study documented lower rates of heart disease and stroke among whole grain eaters. Experts don't know all the reasons behind the benefits, but they do know that intact grains are rich in fiber and nutrients—including vitamin E, B vitamins, and magnesium—that are stripped away when grains are refined into flour.
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My wellness center – a free and personalized weight-loss and fitness tool
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Where the Bugs Are
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Is there a more potent symbol of purity than the fluffy white snowflake, wafting from heaven and landing--ping!--on the tip of your tongue? Well, along comes the journal Science to spoil the fun, noting that bacteria called Pseudomonas syringe are lurking at the dark heart of many an earthbound crystal of frozen water. And if Frosty the Snowman is a target, what chance do the rest of us have?
A pretty good one, actually-- if you make note of the places where the bugs lie and swat them before they can do harm. Here's an updated to-disinfect list for all the surprising places (and people) contagion clings to.
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More Than a Fridge Filler: Clever Uses for Baking Soda
By Olivia Kuhn-Lloyd of Intent
As elements of spring start to peak through, I’m inspired to freshen up my
beauty routine, which has always been minimal. Winter has taken its toll on my
skin and hair and enough is enough! It’s time to peal back the curtain.
Influenced by these ten beauty essentials totaling seventy-five dollars, I
started to think about glow- and shine-inducing products that I already have
on-hand and, my favorite of the bunch, baking soda.
How can my favorite multi-purpose (beauty) product enhance your grooming
routines? Read on. (More than a dusted off Redbook list, these applications for
baking soda are a compilation of research, polls, and personal use.)
Where to buy? For how much?
Baking Soda is ubiquitous. It does not vary by brand nor fall into different price brackets. It’s reliable and will always come to the siren call of your beauty needs.
It’s available. You can purchase it at supermarkets, bodegas, drug stores, and gas station mini-marts.
The price is right. The average drugstore sells baking soda for less than three dollars.
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Could fat babies mean fat toddlers?
A new study from Harvard Medical School found that babies who gained weight quickly had a sharply higher risk of obesity. The study followed close to 600 babies and found those in the top quarter of weight for their length at 6 months had a 40 percent higher risk of obesity by age 3 than smaller babies.
Question: Should I be alarmed if my baby is very large?
The best course of action is to speak with your child's pediatrician. Your child may be large for her age, but not overweight when taken in the context of her height. Also, some babies may grow rapidly at first, and their growth starts to slow as they get older. What does that mean? Your child may be overweight at 6 months, and be at a perfectly healthy weight by age 3. A pediatrician can put your individual questions in the context of your toddler's specific measurements.
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Americans who have health insurance are more likely to receive preventative healthcare, which is an important part of making sure your future is happy and healthy. Request a free health insurance quote now to get coverage.
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by Nonna Joann Bruso
Author of Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater
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Ten-year-old Clay refuses to eat any vegetables, other than green beans. He doesn't like Italian or Mexican foods either. This is problematic since his family lives in El Paso and his mom loves to cook Tex-Mex.
Clay explains, “I always get what I want for dinner. It doesn't matter what the rest of the family is eating!”
Clay knows if his family is eating Mexican, Italian, fish, or any thing else he’s predetermined to be yucky; his mom will make a special dinner, just for him. He can always be pacified with a hamburger and French fries, his favorite foods.
Moms of picky eaters are typically left to their own devices, as the advice from busy pediatricians is sparse. “Don't punish your child for rejecting certain foods,” usually doesn’t come with the solution as to how to get your kid to eat anything nutritious.
Busy moms often fall into the trap of coping or pleasing their finicky child, because kids are experts at parent manipulation. To make matters worse, moms of junk food eaters are offered little direction on how to help their youngsters develop healthy eating habits. Practical solutions are limited. The standard One Bite Rule translates to a child, “some food is so yucky—only one bite is required.”
Desperate moms often endeavor to please or cope with their finicky eater. Many times, mom just takes on another job of short-order cook, just like Clay’s mother. Overworked and stressed-out moms often retreat to the sure-to-please fast food option.
Food preferences are often formed by age four and food aversions are frequently carried into adulthood, unless there’s a dramatic change at the dinner table. Experts forecast obesity and illness in this generation’s future, because faux food has replaced whole food. This generation is the first not expected to live longer than their parents. Your fifth grader has outsmarted you, if you permit your kid to refuse food, make individual requests for dinner, and help himself to junk foods.
You Can Be Smarter Than Your 5th Grader!
Your child’s health is in your hands. You’re the one who controls the food purchased and stored in your pantry. You’re the one who plans the menu. You’re the one who decides when snacking is permitted.
It’s amazing at how quickly a picky eater will change, when snacking is limited to two hours before a meal. A child who has just eaten a snack, will never be convinced to eat a food predetermined to be yucky.
When whole food replaces faux food and multi-sensory learning is incorporated into the dining experience, kids learn to appreciate nutritious foods. Multi-sensory learning is the visual, auditory, and tactile ways learning occurs. Take the time to talk about the meal, what foods look like, smell like, and how do they grow? Most times, parents expect that taste alone should be enough to convince a child to eat a certain food. Surprisingly, taste is the last sense that should be experienced with a new or previously refused food. Include multi-sensory experiences with activities in the kitchen, food preparation and experimentation. This is vital for transforming a picky eater into a healthy eater.
You’ll outsmart your fifth grader when you control snacking, purchase whole foods instead of faux foods, then add multi-sensory learning to your kid’s dining experience!
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If your picky eater is constantly winning food battles, you’ll want to read Nonna Joann Bruso’s book, Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater. She provides a crash course that will make you smarter than your picky eater. For details, visit www.babybites.info
Copyright 2007 - Author grants permission to SingleMom.com™ to publish the following article with author biography and book information.
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Denver, Colo. — Forty-nine percent of moms say they have a picky eater. Not willing to “cope” with a picky eater or “hope” a picky eater will someday change, Nonna Joann tackles this ever increasing dilemma. Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater is her breakthrough method incorporating multi-sensory learning.
Motivated by her two-and-half-year-old grandson, Joshy, who had been winning every food battle, Nonna Joann found a way to circumvent his extreme resistance to eating healthy foods. She condenses forty years of parenting and grand-parenting, as well as her thirty-year passion and independent study of nutrition, into yummy bite-size pieces.
Parents are often out-maneuvered by their preschoolers, and end up giving them the foods they willing eat: junk foods. To their detriment, these foods are directly related to the epidemic of childhood disease and obesity we’re experiencing today. Baby Bites offers practical advice, while providing parents the tools needed to transform their picky eater into a healthy eater.
Even the most resistant picky eater is disarmed when directed-play (Nonna Joann’s unique parenting technique) becomes a pathway to learning during mealtimes. Her two loveable characters, Betty Baby Bites™ and Try Rannosaurus™, transform dinner disasters into positive multi-sensory learning experiences.
Healthy eating springs from the synergy of the Baby Bite Steps: Whole Foods + Positive Discipline + Directed-play = a Healthy Eater.
"Green food is yummy!"
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About Author:
"Nonna” Joann Bruso began her career over thirty years ago writing a monthly nutrition column. After the demands of raising children, she worked full-time editing the Colorado Christian News. Joann and her husband, Dick, make their home outside of Denver, Colorado. They have four grown daughters and six grandchildren.
Nonna is Italian for Grandmother.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9792036-0-2
ISBN-10: 0-9792036-0-0
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Nonna Joann Bruso
Phone: 303-841-8180
Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater
Email: nonnajoann@comcast.net
Website: www.babybites.info
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9 Cash-Saving Tips That Pay Big Bucks
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You May Have Too Much Debt But You Also Have Options
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If you feel like you're in over your head with personal debt, you're not alone. Millions of Americans have become overextended, many as a result of easy credit and the recessions. Credit cards, medical bills, personal loans and raising interest rates do not make a good financial mix.
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Suze Orman's Recession Rescue Plan - helps you survive in times of financial crisis
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Do you know what your family would do if you lost your job - or worse, your home? Financial expert Suze Orman is ready to help you
devise a recession rescue plan to survive - and possibly thrive - during this deepening financial crisis...
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Could fat babies mean fat toddlers?
A new study from Harvard Medical School found that babies who gained weight quickly had a sharply higher risk of obesity. The study
followed close to 600 babies and found those in the top quarter of weight for their length at 6 months had a 40 percent higher risk of
obesity by age 3 than smaller babies.
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The 10-Ingredient Shopping Trip
By Tara Parker-Pope and Mark Bittman
... In his latest “How to Cook Everything” segment on the Today Show, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman makes it
surprisingly easy to cook a week’s worth of dinners with just a 10-ingredient shopping trip.
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Finding last-minute tuition money
There's still time to find funds for this semester's college tuition. But you'll have to move quickly.
By Gerri Willis
It's only a couple of weeks or even days until school begins. And if you don't think you'll be able to get a handle on your college
tuition bill, here with your guide to last minute money.
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Short-term Payday Loans
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...Which are more expensive, late fees or short-term loans?...
A short-term payday loan can be a better option than overdraft fees, reconnect fees, late payment fees or a damaged credit rating when
the loan is repaid promptly. However, these loans are not suited for longer repayment periods...
Being realistic about budgeting can help avoid the need for short-term borrowing.
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Your Just-in-Case Emergency Plan
by RealSimple
Who do you call if you can't make it home in time to meet the kids' bus? Who do
you trust to take in your mail when you're on vacation? Who do you trust with
the extra set of keys to your house?
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How to save $10,000 in 2009
By Liz Pulliam Weston
If you were hoping for a list of small tweaks you could make in your spending to save $10,000 a year, sorry. The reality is that
$10,000 is a lot of money. And saving big money usually means making big changes in the areas where we spend the most, such as:
Housing, Transportation, Food.
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The Super, Sexy, Single Mom on a Budget
by Renee Rayles
A quick reference guide designed for the busy, single mom who has
little time to read while running the mom taxi, cooking dinner, helping with homework, and trying to fit in a date night every now and
then.
32 and Counting? Finding Your Happily Ever After Today
by Gi Gi
The author talks about the struggles a single mom goes through and the discovery that you can have HEAT (Happily Ever After Today) just
as you are, being single, taking care of your kids...
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Single Mothers &
Male Role-Models / Mentors
Single mothers carry an enormous load of responsibility, especially those having sole and/or primary custody of minor children. They
nourish, they nurture, they teach, they discipline, they shelter, they protect, and they provide… all without the assistance of another
equally-invested adult.
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Your 5-minute guide to protecting your identity
20 steps to protect yourself from identity theft, and seven ways to clean up things if you become a victim.
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TheOnlineMom.com offers parents and consumers a guide to the top-rated, age-appropriate, kid-tested and parent-approved tech toys and gifts.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
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For those wondering why tween boys don’t read very much, the answer is that more books aren’t like this...
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10 Superfoods That Should Be in Your Daily Diet
Supercharge your diet with these doctor-approved upgrades
As Told to Max Alexander, Best Life
My interest in what is now known as integrative medicine began many years ago when I was a teenager and witnessed my grandmother battle a breast-cancer recurrence. In those days, it was typical for patients receiving chemotherapy to be confined to a hospital bed. Nothing was done to stop her decline—not nutritionally, not physically, not really medically—and she eventually wasted away and died in her bed.
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The Twenty Healthiest Foods for Under $1
By: Brie Cadman
Food prices are climbing, and some might be looking to fast foods and packaged foods for their cheap bites.
But low cost doesn’t have to mean low quality. In fact, some of the most inexpensive things you can buy are the best things for you. At the grocery store, getting the most nutrition for the least amount of money means hanging out on the peripheries—near the fruits and veggies, the meat and dairy, and the bulk grains—while avoiding the expensive packaged interior. By doing so, not only will your kitchen be stocked with excellent foods, your wallet won’t be empty.
Read more about the great nutritional value of these twenty healthiest foods under $1: Oats, Eggs, Kale, Potatoes, Apples, Nuts, Bananas, Garbanzo Beans, Brocolli, Watermelon, Wild Rice, Beets, Butternut Squash, Whole Grain Pasta, Sardines, Spinach, Tofu, Lowfat Milk, Pumpkin Seeks, Coffee...
How to eat healthy on the cheap
TODAY diet and nutrition editor Madelyn Fernstrom talks with TODAY host Meredith Vieira about some ways to cut down your grocery bill, while still buying nutritious foods.
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10 Reasons You're Not Losing That Weight
If losing weight were simple, Spanx would be just a screen name in an S&M chat room. But dieting is complicated: There are even ways to screw up without realizing it. For instance, who would ever think that working out in the a.m. or cranking the AC might be the reason you're not slimming down? Luckily, once you've ID'd these flubs, fixing them is nowhere near as hard as pulling on a pair of control-top hose.
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Take Your Licks
Icy treats for 160 calories or less — how cool is that?
by Loren Chidoni, Women's Health
When you're squeezing into last year's tankini, the dessert end of the freezer aisle seems taboo. But what would summer be without popsicles and fro-yo? Sucky, that's what. To find frosty goodies that won't test the limits of Lycra, we sampled 27 kinds. The result: these eight amazing, guilt-free indulgences — and one mother of an ice-cream headache.
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How to Be a Budget Organic
What's worth the extra cost, what's not, and how to save in other ways
by Cynthia Sass, RD, Prevention
With all the news about rising food costs, you may be wondering if the organic milk you've been putting in your cart is worth the extra cash. It is. Organic food is more expensive, but when it comes to the staples of your diet, organics are a worthwhile investment, with payoffs that might surprise you. The benefits influence your health today—and long-term.
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Eat your way to less stress
Whether you're anxious, irritable, angry or suffering from insomnia, Dr. David Simon discusses which foods can help.
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10 things your hospital won't tell you
by SmartMoney
"Oops, wrong kidney."
Treatment errors are common, finding someone in charge can seem impossible, and patients sometimes wind up sicker than when they arrived. And here's a tip: Try to avoid hospitals late at night and in July.
In recent years, errors in treatment have become a serious problem for hospitals, ranging from operations on wrong body parts to medication mix-ups.
At least 1.5 million patients are harmed every year from being given the wrong drugs, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. That's an average of one person per U.S. hospital per day.
One reason these mistakes persist: Only 10% of hospitals are fully computerized and have a central database to track allergies and diagnoses, says Robert Wachter, the chief of medical service at UC San Francisco Medical Center.
But signs of change are emerging. More than 3,000 U.S. hospitals, or 75% of the country's beds, have signed on for a campaign by the not-for-profit Institute for Healthcare Improvement to implement prevention measures such as multiple checks on drugs.
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