Nutrition on Shine

Pat yourself on the back: What's one healthy thing you did over Thanksgiving?

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I was on the radio in Portland, Oregon last week, sharing ideas with how to have a healthier Thanksgiving. Sometimes I wonder, as I talk about these things -- swaps you can make, ways you can cut calories, how you can burn fat so you don't have to unbutton your pants at the dinner table -- if people are really listening. I think many of us want to hear these tips and tricks, but a good number of us will never really put them into action.

5 Ways to make food shopping healthier

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Healthy eating starts with healthy grocery shopping. When we arrive at the grocery store, however, and our kids (or we) are yammering for the newest sugared cereals, cookies or ice cream, it’s easy to get distracted and pulled off-course from even the best of intentions to keep your cart…

Our health report card for 2009: Are we making progress?

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The late Ted Kennedy said this in 1994 about health-care reform: "What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system." Not much has changed in the past 15 years. Although disease treatment has progressively improved, preventable illnesses prevalence is still rising, causing a lot of suffering and impairing the quality of life for many.

It's a Tea Party: Sharing our Favorite DIY Gift Projects

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Yes, I'm stuffed! But I know if I don't begin to at least "think" about some Christmas projects, I'll never move from in front of this computer. So I'm "thinking" that I always, always intend to make my own gift baskets instead of picking up those little packages of cheese & crackers or coffee or tea baskets that are outrageously priced for what is put into them. What I need is some inspiration to get me away from my cuppa tea. Do you have fave projects you might want to share? Let's hear them!!!
Personally, I like projects that are suitable to do with children and that offer options for gifting that include most all of the relationships in my life -- you know, something for the teachers, the postman, the sister-in-laws, my fave nurse, even the guys. Gift baskets probably best fill that need. ( After all I love to receive them).

Now this little video

Best Excuses for Turning Down Leftovers

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It's almost universal: the "please take some leftovers ... I insist!" guilt trip given after a Thanksgiving meal.

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5 Tips for Having Your Thanksgiving—and Eating it Too

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Yum. Our mouth is watering just thinking about the glorious spread that our families lay out for Thanksgiving dinner. More milk in the mashed potatoes! Pile on the gravy—I'm not driving! We tend to say to ourselves and others,

The 7 foods experts won't eat

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How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them one simple question—“What…

Top 10 Nutrition Blunders

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Eating well is important -- for pregnant women, and for all of you Shine ladies out there. Avoid these diet disasters to give your baby the best start possible. 1) Not eating enough whole foods in…

Baby mama must-haves

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Here’s something nobody seems to warn you about when you embark on motherhood: those humongous horse pill prenatal vitamins you’re expected to swallow throughout pregnancy and while you’re nursing. You gag, you cough, slap your chest silly and still the darn thing is stuck in your throat. And when you do get it down, morning sickness kicks in, and you wonder what vital nutrient you might have missed out on today.