So much planning and preparation goes into thanksgiving dinner that sometime meals earlier in the day are neglected. And who wants to eat anything anyway-you’ve been planning for this meal all year long.  We want to remind you don’t forget to eat breakfast.  It’s important-even on thanksgiving. We have a few easy suggestions for the morning [...]

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As published in the Santa Monica Daily Press November 21, 2008
THERE ARE NEVER ENOUGH HOURS IN  the day to do everything. Things come up that push exercise to the back burner. We end up running late to a meeting so we grab some sort ofjunky snack on our way out the door. As adults though, most of us know how much [...]

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Wrenching that TV remote – a key to good health/ Kill the TV/ Watch your weight, not the TV
The percentage of overweight children and adolescents in the US is growing. An increasing number of teens are leading sedentary lives, sitting for hours in front of their TVs and computer screens, mindlessly grazing on empty-calorie, high-fat [...]

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