Health & Fitness
Not Too Late to Get a Flu Shot
With the holiday season right around the corner, the American Lung Association has an important message: It’s not too late to get your flu shot!
Vaccination is recommended and beneficial into the winter months – a time of the year when spreading holiday cheer with family and friends can also make it easier for disease, like [...]
The Healthy School Lunch Makeover
By Connie Diekman, Registered Dietitian
As a mom, you likely know what your child eats for breakfast and dinner, but what about lunch at school? Typically, kids get about 30 to 50 percent of their calories while at school. The good news is there are several changes happening in school cafeterias across the country this year [...]
Study Suggests Marital Changes Lead to Weight Gain
If you plan on getting married or divorced any time soon, you may want to stock up on Slimfast first. A new study released at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association found that a transition in marital status generally leads to weight gain for both men and women.
Lead by Dmitry Tumin and [...]
Training for the Chicago Marathon — almost halfway!
Well, I’m almost halfway through my training program for the 2011 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. And the training has been grueling in this heat!
This will be my third appearance in the Chicago Marathon. It was my first-ever marathon in 2005, with a time 4:30:54, and I went back in 2006 and completed it in [...]
Drinking More Water & Loving Our New Water Cooler!
I made lots of New Year’s Resolutions this year, and among there were:
Sign up to run the 2011 Chicago Marathon – Check. I’m registered for this October event.
Learn a new training/exercise program that requires me to run a little less and cross train a little more. Working on it.
Lose weight, of course. Working on it.
Drink [...]
2011 – The Year of the Vegetable
The following article was written by George Ball, Burpee Chairman & CEO, and is being reposted here as a shortened version of the original, which ran as an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal. It is reprinted with Mr. Ball’s permission:
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Childhood obesity is now the nation’s disease—an ailment crippling the body politic. The long-term [...]
Breathe Right Strips and $50 Travelocity Gift Card Giveaway
I used to have a newspaper editor who always sounded like she had a cold when I talked to her in the morning. I’d say, “Are you feeling okay?” and she’d say, “It’s just my morning voice.” I was LOTS younger than her, so I chalked it up to her advanced years (I think she [...]
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Cool Touch Griddle Giveaway — Make Breakfast!! CLOSED
Knowing that school days can be a hectic time for families, I wanted to pass along some tips from the Midwest Dairy Council designed not only to save time, but also help that ensure kids take on the day with a healthy and balanced breakfast:
o Set out cereal boxes and bowls the night before, add [...]
