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Healthy Menu Ideas for Fall: Menu 4

This healthy menu is based on a daily 2,000 calorie recommendation. Depending on your age, sex, and physical activity level, your calorie recommendation may va…
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Healthy Menu Ideas for Fall: Menu 3

This healthy menu is based on a daily 2,000 calorie recommendation. Depending on your age, sex, and physical activity level, your calorie recommendation may va…
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How I Help My Child to Eat Healthier

Grand Prize Winner Jennifer Miller Smithsburg, MD A conversation over lunch between myself and my very handsome and healthy son: Mom: Jesse, do you know wha…
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A Healthy-Living Essay

First Place Prize Lana Cook Audubon, NJ As a mother of two small boys, ages three and a half and ten months, I put a lot of thought and energy into modeling…
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More Veggies Instead of Junk Foods

First Place Prize Darcie Liptrot Syracuse, UT About 10 months ago, my health had hit rock bottom. I was 215 pounds, at only 5’3” tall. I ate horr…
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Miss Vegetable Pageant

First Place Prize Nicholle Harrison Rome, GA I have struggled with my 8 and 4 year old girls on getting them to eat their vegetables. One day we were grocery…
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Champion for Change

First Place Prize Mary Johnson San Juan Capistrano, CA My name is Mary Johnson and I grew up really liking sweets. As a child I was allowed to eat dessert be…
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Grape and Cabbage Stir-Fry

Preparation Time: 30 minutes 1 cup onion, vertically sliced 1 Tbsp olive oil 4 cups Napa cabbage (or any cabbage), cut into ½ inch slices 2 cups…
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Make Fall a Fit and Healthy Season

As the weather turns cooler I begin thinking about the multitude of activities the fall months bring.I also find that this season re-energizes my healthy livin…
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