Archive for the 'Fruit' Category
Vitamins
Posted on April 28, 2011 - Filed Under Fruit, Nutrition, Vegetables, healthy lifestyle | Leave a Comment
Eating a well-balanced, healthy diet that includes plenty of vegetables and fruits can help you get enough vitamins each day.
Medline Plus has a list of essential vitamins, what they do in your body and where to get them. Might be worth knowing.
Sources:
Medline Plus: Vitamins
Medline Plus: Fruits and Vegetables
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Fruits and Veggies Still Matter
Posted on April 8, 2011 - Filed Under Fruit, Vegetables, healthy lifestyle | 2 Comments
Good advice from @Fruits_Veggies. Here is the link from the tweet about why you should fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables.
I’m not perfect at it but I’m trying to make sure I get more in. Can you?
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National Nutrition Month
Posted on March 9, 2011 - Filed Under Fruit, Nutrition, Vegetables | 4 Comments
March is National Nutrition Month and the theme is “Eat Right with Color.”
“Adding a splash of colorful seasonal foods to your plate makes for more than just a festive meal. A rainbow of foods creates a palette of nutrients, each with a different bundle of potential benefits for a healthful eating plan.”
– Karen Ansel, RD [...]
More Fruits and Veggies?
Posted on December 6, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Nutrition, Vegetables | 2 Comments
Interesting graph showing fruit and vegetable intake. Today may be a good day for all of us to try and regularly get more.
[Click image to enlarge].
Source: State of the Plate: 2010 Study on America’s Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables
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Random Thursday Post?
Posted on September 2, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Nutrition, Vegetables, food | 4 Comments
Avocado can make anything taste really good. Just thought you should know.
This was dinner a couple of nights ago.
And this is my 18-month-old cutie. Just want everyone to know that she’s awesome. : )
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Potassium
Posted on September 1, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Nutrition, Vegetables | 4 Comments
Been reading about potassium lately. It’s good stuff.
“Potassium is crucial to heart function and plays a key role in skeletal and smooth muscle contraction, making it important for normal digestive and muscular function, too.”
Most people need about 2,000 mg each day. If you’re eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, you shouldn’t have a problem getting [...]
Watermelon
Posted on June 24, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Nutrition | 8 Comments
This pic reminded me of my daughter. She loves watermelon lately.
I love cold watermelon after a long bike ride or run. So refreshing. Have any interesting ways to eat watermelon besides just eating it straight-up?
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Fruit, Triathlon and Questions to Ask Yourself
Posted on June 18, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Triathlon, healthy lifestyle | 1 Comment
Food today is fuel tomorrow, right? Or something like that. This smoothie had skim milk, banana, yogurt, apple, spinanch, and a handful of frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, bluberries, blackberries). So good.
Triathlon (oly-distance) tomorrow. Hoping for a new PR. Training may not have been as great as I would have liked, so might be wishful thinking.
Also, [...]
Fruit and Veggies Matter – Healthy Monday
Posted on May 17, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Healthy Monday, Nutrition, Vegetables | Leave a Comment
Each Monday, a simple health tip and challenge will be posted as part of Healthy Monday. Healthy Monday is a public health initiative founded in 2005 in association with Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, and Columbia Univerisity.
Their mission includes ending “chronic preventable disease in the U.S. by offering people and organizations a weekly prompt [...]
Oranges Are So Good
Posted on April 15, 2010 - Filed Under Fruit, Nutrition | 4 Comments
Oranges. I love them. They’re usually the first thing I look for after a hard workout. Sweet, juicy, and refreshing.
Just like mom always said, they are high in Vitamin C, but they also are good sources of folate, potassium, and fiber.
I like to keep some oranges in the fridge so they are nice and cold [...]
