This week’s News Link focuses on nutrition, helping kids learn about healthy foods, and a step by Congress to reward healthy habits.
Congress Plans Incentives for Healthy Habits
New York Times
In its effort to overhaul health care, Congress is planning to give employers sweeping new authority to reward employees for healthy behavior, including better diet, more exercise, weight loss and smloking cessation.
Kids are what they eat
Fit for Life Online
This article offers a different take on the idea that “we are what we eat” by actually comparing food to body parts to make it more interesting for kids.
Eating Habits – A Time to Change
MommyBlogs @JustMommies
This is one Mommy who gets that food is fuel. She writes about how hard it is to understand what healthy food really is and how to understand what is in the food we eat. The article has ideas on how to find healthy food in the grocery store.
How to avoid gaing weight because of stress
Shed Your Weight
FitCity Mom Lisa Vielee wrote earlier this week about her plan to avoid stress eating. Here are some other tips to watching what you eat and how to avoid the stress in your life that causes you to eat.
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Tags: healthy food, Nutrition, stress eating
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