Articles tagged with: healthy lifestyle
Do you find yourself somewhere in there: “You have no idea how hard it is to feed my family healthy. I have a picky eater, another kid with nut allergies and a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy for a husband. I need a nutrition expert to help me figure this out.” Or how about this one: “Well, yeah, anyone can get fit with the help of a fitness trainer. I wish…
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Moms across the nation last year shared with ZisBoomBah readers tips ranging from how to make hiking fun for kids to how to pack a healthy picnic. But even moms who, along with their families, stay active and eat healthy can find some way to improve their lives and set new goals. For instance, my family eats its fair share of fruits and vegetables with each meal. However, the drinks in…
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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.
Here…
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We have a winner! Congratulations to the Pardee family from Freehold, N.J. on winning the grand prize in our Challenger Calendar Contest: an iPad 2! We caught up with Carol Pardee, the mom, at home to chat about how the Challenger Calendar has impacted their daily lives. She and daughter Julia, who just turned 12, had been using ZisBoomBah’s new game for achieving goals throughout the months of…
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“Healthy lifestyle” is such a buzzword these days. It’s everywhere! So we stopped to ask, what does it actually mean? Is there a universal definition, a common understanding, of what’s considered a healthy lifestyle? Or does each family life a different healthy lifestyle?
We asked our house nutritionist, Lisa Lanzano, MS, RD, to tell us exactly what a healthy lifestyle is…
Big surprise! Lisa didn’t specifically talk about food at…
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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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