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Zapping Sugar Cravings
Hair-Raising Stats on this “White Plague” and How to Reduce Your Need for Sweets Sugar is caustic, plain and simple, especially the white, refined versions, which demolish health with staggering ease. Most foods consumed today, processed and homemade alike, contain added sugar. While the more natural sweeteners such as raw honey, maple syrup, and dehydrated…
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First Lady Sets Sights on Global Waistlines
First Lady Sets Sights on Global Waistlines | TakePart – Inspiration to Action. One year into her ambitious “Let’s Move” campaign to fight obesity in America and encourage the country to make better choices in the kitchen, First Lady Michelle Obama is taking her crusade to the world stage. In an interview to mark the…
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Champion of Health and Fitness
Superintendent ‘fits in’ at Norris. We have to inspire and educate kids in being fit and healthy. The more schools that place value and encourage it — the better off we all are! I have given a online speaker session about ‘Creating Fit Families’ on behalf of K12 this past Fall: http://bit.ly/gKdYm7 Jumpin’, dancin’ and…
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Schools implement fitness boot camp for kids
Schools implement fitness boot camp for kids. Canadians are on the right track here! Fitness should be fun for kids and a lifelong endeavor! Many students in Edmonton are now taking part in a new fitness boot camp program designed specifically for kids.It’s called No More Excuses Boot Camp for Kids and it’s a circuit-training…
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Parenting Taboos – Great TED talk!
Babble.com publishers Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, in a lively tag-team, expose 4 facts that parents never, ever admit — and why they should. Funny and honest, for parents and nonparents alike.
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CSPI helps mom sue McDonald’s over Happy Meal toys
Here’s the article to go with my post from yesterday: Parents and Mcdonalds The Checkup – CSPI helps mom sue McDonald’s over Happy Meal toys. The D.C.-based nutrition watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest has helped a California mother file a class-action suit against McDonald’s, demanding that the burger chain stop marketing…
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Not Even Kids on Sports Teams Get Enough Exercise
Not Even Kids on Sports Teams Get Enough Exercise So relying on your child’s sports team to ensure they get enough exercise may guarantee that they are getting in their 60 mins of activity because of instruction time! We parents just can’t win! What are we to do — think about encouraging or finding additional…
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WOW – real deals for real people
WOW –real deals for real people. I have been missing my husband Scotty lately all because he has been working super hard with his team at Aol. on this new product – called WOW –real deals for real people. Think group deals with the influence and deal making power because of the sheer number of…
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Power Workout
Frost greeted me on my car windshield for the first time this season as I headed out the door this AM. And although I happen to be one of those people that like the chillier weather, I can’t say I like to see signs of it at 5AM. I had to find my car scraper…
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Girl Scout Walk Together
Today I am heading to the Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve for a Girl Scout Walk Together with Hannah Bea today for a 3 mile nature hike. Its a crisp fall day and anyone that knows about No VA knows its one of the most beautiful times of the year for this area — with the…