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Healthy Eating

Live to eat or eat to live? Food is fuel; so choosing healthier options leads to feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and stabilizing your mood. 

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When you feel great, you're more likely to sleep well, move more and manage stress better.

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Start learning about how your food choices affect your well-being and how small changes return big benefits.

Get Green - Get Healthy!

Plant-based diets are good for the environment, your heart, your weight and your overall health. U.S. News defines plant-based as an approach that emphasizes minimally processed foods from plants, with modest amounts of fish, lean meat and low-fat dairy, and red meat only sparingly.

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Why not jump into a healthier lifestyel this year, by trying US News and World Reports best diet ?

Sleep and Weight Gain

If you’ve ever had a sleepless night and the next day felt ravaged by hunger, your body has experienced the negative impact of a lack of sleep on your hormones. The hormones leptin and ghrelin are influenced by how much we sleep. When you don’t get enough sleep, it drives leptin levels down, which means you don’t feel as satisfied after you eat. Your ghrelin levels rise and your appetite is stimulated so you want more food. The two combined make you overeat, according to the Mayo Clinic. 

Tips For Cutting Back on Sugar

New 2016 dietary guidelines recommend limiting sugar to no more than 10 percent of daily calories. This can be a problem for many Americans who consume up to 22 teaspoons a day. To meet the new 10 percent target, they'd need to cut their sugar intake by nearly half — to no more than 12 teaspoons a day on a 2,000-calorie daily diet.

Healthy Eating During Shift Work

Shift work means working outside the usual 7 am to 6 pm time period. When you work shifts, you may find it hard to know when and what to eat. You might be experiencing some of these health challenges as a result of your shift work eating habits:

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  • a change in your appetite;

  • weight loss or weight gain;

  • constipation, diarrhea, gas;

  • indigestion, heartburn or stomach ulcers; and 

  • high blood pressure

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Learn some simple, quick tips for eating better on shift work and feel better immediately!,

My Plate: a simple way to eat well

Learn a simple method for filling your plate with delicious, healthy foods. Manage Items.

This is How Much Sugar is In a Can of Coke? (2:21)

A quick look at how much sugar is in a can of coke.

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