July 8, 2021 by Kathy Tutt Five long years. That’s how long my mother lived with dementia. It was five years of watching that progressive disease take away the strong, stable and loving mother that I knew. Throughout those years, I found myself on an emotional rollercoaster. There would be days that she was mentally […]
To some it may seem old fashioned, or a thing of the past, but family meals are a proven way to help strengthen families. Years of research has found that the more children eat dinner with their families, the less likely they were to smoke, drink or use drugs. Why? Eating dinner together has a […]
Are You Stuck in a Cooking Rut? I usually like to cook. In fact, I would cook more often if someone else always did the cleanup. At times I can feel like I get stuck in a rut with lack of inspiration leading to the redundancy of the same few recipes. This boredom leads to […]
Posted in Healthy People, tagged baby boomers, chips, ChooseMyPlate, fresh produce, fruit, Fruits & Vegetables, healthy choices, Healthy Living, healthy meals, millenials, snacks, USDA, vegtables, Wellness on March 24, 2016| Leave a Comment » One fourth or 25% of a typical person’s daily calories come from snacking. It’s simple to see why choosing healthful snacks […]
When it comes to birthdays, people seem to have mixed emotions. Kids look forward to turning a year older, counting down the days until their next birthday and often saying their age with the “and a half” added to it. Children also look forward to their milestones – becoming a teenager, turning 16, then 18, […]
October 11, 2017 by bethstefura Infused Water We all love a cold refreshing drink after physical activity, with a meal, or as a snack. Soda, sweet tea, energy drinks, and/or other sugary drinks taste great, but contain a lot of calories and no nutrients. What you drink has a huge impact on your health. Have […]
Posted in Healthy Finances, Healthy People, Healthy Relationships, Mindfulness, Uncategorized, tagged crock pot dessert, food preservation, fruit crisp, fruit recipes, fruit roll ups, leftover food, making jam, making jellies, saving food, strawberry jam on August 25, 2022| Leave a Comment » …make lemonade! In other words, don’t throw it out just yet! Fruit during any […]
At a recent professional development conference for the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina I was able to take part in an in-depth tour of a family operated produce farm in Princeton, North Carolina. While I attended many great sessions at the conference, it was a tour “Locally Sweet: […]
September 9, 2019 by jmlobb Do you remember when peanut butter was the only nut butter available on the grocery store shelves? Options included creamy and chunky, and eventually low sodium and natural, too. Today, the nut butter market has grown exponentially, for a variety of reasons! People with peanut allergies want alternatives to peanut […]
In their February 2013 journal, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics took the position supporting the total diet approach, which is based on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Total diet is defined as “the combination of foods and beverages that provide energy and nutrients and constitute an individual’s complete dietary intake, on average, over […]
February 15, 2021 by thebrittons10 In our family we joke about our 2-year-old son having two belly buttons, when he has a feeding tube. When he was born, he struggled to learn how to breath, suck, and swallow a bottle due to a medical condition, and has had some sort of feeding tube since birth, […]
A staggering 30.3 million people in the United States have diabetes, millions of which are undiagnosed. Diabetes is a condition where blood sugar (glucose) levels are higher than recommended for good health. Glucose is a type of sugar found in the foods we eat and is an important source of energy for the body. Sources […]
March 3, 2016 by Daniel Remley It is easy to forget about the sun in springtime after a long dreary winter. Therefore many people sun burn in the spring because they forget about sun safety. Excess sun exposure can greatly increase one’s risk of developing skin cancer which, according to the American Cancer Society […]
“A friend asked me for a nude photo,” my fifteen-year-old daughter told me one night. “He what?!” I whispered struggling to grasp onto a rational thought. I knew this friend. In this case, it was a boy who had been in my home. The realization that my daughter had a friend that would make such […]