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Category Archives: Healthy Ideas
Positive Body Image Messaging for Girls and Women
Angela Lemond, RD, CSP, LD discusses how we can send the most positive body image messaging to young girls (and even boys)! Healthy Weight Week was observed in the third week of January. Angela also shares numerous site links with more information on avoiding negative or dangerous body image messages. Continue reading
Posted in Healthy Ideas, Nutrition for Kids
Tagged Body image, girls body image, healthy steps, nutrition education children, nutrition education for families, nutrition education materials for kids, nutrition for kids, portion control, positive body image, positive messaging, teaching nutrition to children, teaching nutrition to kids
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Healthier turkey chili recipe! Check out these creative options!
As much as I love chili, it does feel like a challenge to make it so that it is not filled with sodium and saturated fats. This very creative interpretation of turkey chili is inspired by the wide variety of more »
Posted in Healthy Ideas, Healthy Recipes, Nutrition for Kids, Portion Control Tips, Portion Sizes of Food, Uncategorized
Tagged chili peppers, chili powder, chili recipe, cilantro, healthy chili, healthy recipes, healthy steps, limiting sodium, make your own chili, portion control, Portion size, turkey chili
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Weather turns chilly, we think chile! (and that other kind of chili)
Make your own chile powder. It makes a big difference. Toast your own dried ancho chile pods. Continue reading
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Tagged ancho chile pepper, chili recipe, food portion size, healthy kids, healthy steps, nutrition education for families, portion control, Portion size, portion sizes of food, serving sizes of food, toast chile pods
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DR. OZ SHOW! We have 3 gadgets that will help you drop a jean size!
Watch the Dr.OZ Show, with special guest star Healthy Steps portion control kitchen tools. Never has it been so easy to begin portion control habits with your home-cooked meals. Continue reading
Healthy Steps in the Big Apple, Featured on Dr. Oz!
Okay, we can’t even describe how excited we are about what is going to happen this coming Tuesday, October 25. We made the cut! We are going to have 3 portion control kitchen tools featured on a segment of the more »
After-school snacking? Just say “yes!”
Did you know that September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month? In raising awareness, we thought we’d follow up our back-to-school lunches blog from last week with some talk about what happens after school. After-school snacking can be a real more »
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Cooper Aerobics Dir. of Nutrition Shares Her Healthy Recipe for Salad Dressing
Kathy Duran-Thal, the Director of Nutrition at Cooper Aerobics Center and world-class nutrition communicator, shares expert tips on healthy eating as well as her favorite salad and a recipe for salad dressing!
Recipes for Baby Food: A Healthy Way to Feed Your Kids!
Thank you to Stephanie Smith, our product manager, for sharing these recipes for baby food! Also thank you to eleventhirtysix images for the photos! As a new mom to two adorable twin boys, I’m probably overly concerned with many things. more »
Portion Control and Snacking: A Guest Blog from Becoming the Odd Duck
Hi everyone! I’m Laura and I blog at Becoming the Odd Duck. I’m a nutrition student at Texas Woman’s University who is studying to become a Registered Dietitian. I’m also an intern for Registered Dietitian Robin Plotkin, who introduced to more »
Cucumbers + Onions + Vinegar = SUMMER, a guest blog from Robin Plotkin
Nothing says summer to me more than the good old Cucumber and Onion Salad. Growing up, we always had a bowl of this in the fridge-white onions, Kirby cucumbers, vinegar, water, salt and a bit of dill. My mom would write more »
