Articles tagged with: change
Ending the old year with some reflection and starting the next day fresh has fueled many a resolution for improvement. There is a reason both of these steps are considered key aspects of successful behavior change. We are much more successful in making desired changes—whether they be increasing our level of activity or improving our diets for better nutrition and balance—when we first acknowledge what we are doing right.
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Back to School feels a lot like January – a fresh start, a chance to rethink your ways, the motivation to improve. Total tabula rasa. Neither you nor your kids have goofed anything up yet…. ahh, doesn’t it feel good? Use this renewed positive spirit to form new healthy habits for the school year that lies ahead, still untainted; or to reinstate some bygone good habits you had neglected towards…
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Who doesn’t remember the first day of school; the blend of anticipation and anxiety? For children with older siblings, that first day can be an important and long-anticipated culmination of joining the ranks of the big kids. For those returning, going back to school holds all of the past successes and failures along with uncertainty regarding the year to come. Will my teacher like me? Will there be classmates I…
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Change is hard. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make it simple.
This is the third article in our “Healthier Family 2011” series on how to create a new, more wholesome and active lifestyle for yourself, your spouse and your children. In January, when many of you made a resolution that this year, the family is going to start eat healthier and exercise more, we talked about “How…
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It’s February. So… how is your New Year’s resolution coming along? If you just remembered, “Oh yeah, that’s right, we wanted to live healthier!” then keep on reading.
We asked one of the nation’s leading authorities on childhood obesity what sustainable success looks like when it comes to healthy family lifestyles. How do you know you’ve made it over the hump? James O. Hill, Ph.D., a close advisor to the ZisBoomBah…
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From our sponsor The Children’s Hospital
Most children are not obese, but fears about the obesity “epidemic” have increased with good reason. According to Renee Porter, obesity clinical nurse coordinator at The Children’s Hospital, portion sizes have nearly tripled in the last 20 to 30 years, kids often drink too many sugar-sweetened beverages, recess and physical education have drastically decreased…
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Making the New Year’s resolution for your entire family to live a healthier lifestyle can make loosing a few pounds all by yourself seem like a piece of cake – because you can’t do it alone. To become more healthy and active as a family, you are facing a completely different set of obstacles together.
For guidance on how to overcome these obstacles to a healthier family lifestyle, we spoke…
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From our sponsor The Children’s Hospital
Eat smarter
Parents and children can find it challenging to maintain healthy eating and exercise habits during the holiday season. With childhood obesity rates at an all-time high, making sure kids eat healthy and get plenty of exercise has perhaps never been more important. Our weight management experts have provided a few simple tips parents can use for making sure their families…
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Or: The Deconstruction of a Habit – and Rebuilding a New One
This is in in continuation of last week’s article “Habits: Why We Need Ice Cream When We See the Truck“
I know it doesn’t seem like you reap anything but frustration from the fact that your child refuses vegetables, or won’t try anything new, or has a meltdown every night at the table. Whatever the problem, it’s…
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This is part 1 of ZisBoomBah’s exclusive series on motivation.
In the recent movie The Blind Side, after repeated failure on the coach’s part to motivate her stepson as a new football player, Sandra Bullock takes the coach aside and chides him to “know his players.” Provided with insight regarding the unique motivations of his player, the coach is able to create a winning team. This first step in building…
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