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Every mom wants their kids to eat healthy lunches, and the key is to put food in their lunches that they are going to want to eat.
Find out how to make a chicken wrap for a child's lunch with help from a kids' cooking teacher in this free video on healthy lunch recipes.

Protect yourself while away from home.

Let's say you're lucky enough to get to take two weeks of vacation away from home each year. Maybe your job sends you to a training session or trade conference for a few days.
Then there's your niece's wedding, Thanksgiving with the family, a weekend getaway or two with your spouse to the hills -- or Las Vegas. For many adults, a typical year may have us sleeping in a hotel room 10-20 nights per year. That's nothing to sneeze at.
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The Pomegranate, Punica granatum, is one of the oldest fruits known. It is also one of the healthiest foods on earth. These little ruby red seeds called arils are bursting with flavor, vitamin C, antioxidants and fiber. Don't be intimidated by their gorgeous outer husks. A deep bowl or sink of water makes quick work of separating membrane from aril as these glossy little gems rise to the top. They rise to the top in cooking too!

With so much attention on Fast food these days, many fast food restaurants are responding to consumer demand for healthier options. But some of those options can still be tricky when you're watching your waistline.


Many restaurants are switching to using healthy fats like olive oil rather than the usual artery clogging peanut oil, and most offer grilled or fresh sandwich options rather than the usual fried fare. Here are some tips for eating healthy on the go.

Here's some good news: Healthy eating can have a dramatic impact on the symptoms and progression of type 2 diabetes and its frequent precursor, prediabetes. But the problem is that there's a lot of conflicting information out there. Just what does healthy eating with type 2 diabetes really mean? No sweets? Scheduled snacks? Low-fat, low-carb -- or neither? more...

Tea, coffee, chocolate, avocados, and fatty fish all have good-for-you qualities.

We all know that spinach and carrots are good for us, but would you believe that such seeming indulgences as tea, coffee, chocolate, avocados, and fatty fish also have properties that prevent disease and enhance your health?

It's true. Some of these five "superfoods" contain antioxidants, which are thought to fight the damage from disease-causing "free radicals" (unstable molecules that damage cells). Others have omega-3 fatty acids, which promote heart health and may even help to cheer you up when you're down in the dumps.

Do you prepare a traditional holiday dish that's on the lighter side?

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Decorated apples and oranges become delicious and healthy treats for Halloween, fall, Thanksgiving or Kwanzaa parties.

Part of your responsibility as a parent is to teach your children how to lead healthy lives. The best time to start teaching these lessons to children is when theyre young, before unhealthy choices become lifelong bad habits. When you want to pass on healthy habits to your kids, its important to practice what you preach. Just telling your kids what to do wont necessarily workthey need to see you choosing healthy behaviors too.

Helping our kids develop into smart, tender, sexual beings is vital to their future happiness and as challenging as parenting gets. The perplexity of sex is that it's so compelling, such a power for goodand yet so dangerous for young people if they set off on the wrong track. Sex education in schools is beset with endless debate about abstinence only versus safe sex. What's missing and sorely needed is a focus on love and ennobling sexual intimacy as immutable currents in human life. Both as doctor and mother, I can't help but believe that our anything-goes society, in which impulses are immediately satisfied and sex is divorced from love and bonding, is simply not healthy physically, emotionally, or spiritually.