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Nutritional Needs in Times of Stress

Recently one of our readers reached out to ask about meeting “nutritional needs in times of stress.” It turns out that what you eat can have an impact on your mental health, so "lettuce" take a closer look at food and mood and other ways to deal with stress...

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Common Adaptogens

While there are hundreds of potential adaptogens identified, here is information about four of the more common ones...

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Relieve Stress and Promote Fruit with Brand-New Coloring Pages

Calming your brain while promoting mindfulness is great news for your health, as is finding healthful ways to get rid of stress, tension, and anxiety. With that in mind, I asked my team of artists to come up with some great coloring pages that also promote healthful dietary messages...

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Kids and the Benefits of Physical Activity

The CDC, AHA, and the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans all recommend that "Children and adolescents should do 60 minutes or more of physical activity each day." Most of that activity should be aerobic exercise, with some muscle-strengthening and bone-strengthening work thrown in too. But why be active every day? What are the benefits?

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Diabetes and Your Heart

If you are like many people with diabetes, you put a lot of effort into controlling your blood sugar numbers. You watch what you eat, prick your fingers, take your medications and more! But many people with diabetes forget that there are other health numbers that are just as important as blood sugar. These numbers are the ones that deal with the health of your heart...

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