WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have partnered to add the NIH Body Weight Planner to USDA's SuperTracker online tool as a goal-setting resource to help people achieve and stay at a healthy weight. Created in 2011, the SuperTracker tool empowers people to build a healthier diet, [...]
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Discover your hidden passions in life with this simple exercise
I am in the throes of creating a new vision board for myself. While the first one I ever built two years ago still holds merit, I have grown as a person. I have new and/or revised goals and directions, and I want my new vision board to reflect that. I am a very visual person, [...]
7 ways your garden can save your life
Gardening is not just for flower lovers, and is moving out of people’s window boxes and into their backyards. In the past few years, food gardening has increasingly become an activity done to facilitate better physical fitness, healthier eating and well-being. And science backs this up. Gardening helps you: To fit exercise into your day Regular [...]
How better sleep can help you lose weight
If you are one of those people who fly by the seat of their pants when it comes to getting enough sleep every night, you could be heading toward a world of hurt sooner rather than later. Did you know that you are considered sleep-deprived if you have six or fewer hours of sleep? That [...]
5 tips to help you keep your diet resolution
Like so many women around New Year's, you've probably sworn to yourself to "eat healthier," "lose weight," and "take better care of yourself" over the next 12 months. Many of you have probably turned to popular diets circulating the internet to accomplish that, whether it's the raw diet, Paleo, Mediterranean, vegan, vegetarian, or - well, [...]
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