From our friends at Healthy Monday…
These days, blogs of all stripes are spreading the word about key health issues. One of our favorites is Edible Aria, a recipe and news blog that advocates sustainable eating. Ren, the chef, writer and photographer behind Edible Aria, offers recipes for organic, unprocessed foods, plus pertinent articles and quick [...]

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American teenagers live a fast paced life surrounded by modern technology. They spend their time talking and texting on cell phones, studying and surfing the web and grabbing fast food while driving between home, work, school and social activities. The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) explains the environmental dangers of this lifestyle through entertaining performances [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Having access to nutritious, whole foods is something many of us take for granted. We can begin each week with a trip to the grocery store or farmers’ market where we’ll find a wide variety of fruits, grains, vegetables, beans and other healthy fare. Finding fresh, affordable produce in urban [...]

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It’s important to start the week off with healthy goals, but sometimes the bustle of everyday life makes it hard to stick to good intentions. We grab a quick meal in between errands, without realizing that fast food can be riddled with unnecessary fat and calories.
Thankfully, having a Healthy Monday on the go just got [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…

It’s the 4th Monday of June and, if you’re the parent of young kids, chances are your life is a shambles right now.
As the school year races to an end, you may be adjusting to a new schedule, planning a trip or a stay at home vacation, getting the kids [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
As the highly regarded new movie Food, Inc. makes clear, Meatless Monday is not only good for your health – it’s one of the top ten actions every one of us can take to help create a better, more sustainable food system.
Food, Inc., which opens nationwide this week, aims to [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
It’s Monday – time to kick off a week of healthy eating. If you shop today for fresh produce, you can easily plan a week’s worth of delicious, nutritious menus, and what better place to begin than at your local farmers’ market? Eating locally makes sense, and farmers’ markets are [...]

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With all the diet and fitness crazes, the infomercials and public service campaigns, launched over the last two decades, you’d suspect that Americans had increasingly embraced healthy habits. But an important new study in the American Journal of Medicine reveals just the opposite. Between 1988 and 2006, adults adopted consistently fewer healthy practices. Regular exercise [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
“If we went a day without meat we would rediscover vegetables!” These are the words of best-selling author and food activist, Michael Pollan, on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate show.
Pollan has lately been championing the virtues of going meatless. On the Earth Day episode of the Oprah Show, he said the easiest [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Kids today grow up amidst a welter of junk food ads and calorie crazy fast-food joints. The numbers are startling: nearly one-fifth of our nation’s 4-year olds are obese. 17.6% of children aged 12-19 are obese, triple the figure in 1980. And the percentages are even higher where fast food [...]

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