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It’s Back to School Time! Simple Tricks For Keeping Your Kids Happy and Healthy This School Year

August 31, 2015

Back-To-SchoolSummertime often means later bedtimes, lazy mornings and less than healthy food and beverage choices. Whether your kids are already back in school or you are in your last weeks of summer break, it’s a great time to get your family back into healthy habits. Read on for some tips for getting and staying healthy during the school year! (more…)

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Spring into Action: Four Ways to Spruce Up Your Healthy Habits

April 16, 2015

bigstock-Family-On-Cycle-Ride-In-Countr-55016255Spring has officially sprung, and with the appearance of colorful blooms and warmer weather comes the opportunity to do some spring cleaning of not only your home and office, but of your body and mind. It’s time to get healthy, be active and have some fun in the great outdoors! (more…)

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Back to School – How to Help Kids Learn Better with Healthy Eating

December 23, 2013

back to schoolMost of the country is now back to school, and while parents already know that healthy eating can help their students do better in school, you might feel that’s easier said than done.

“Your brain can’t work if you’re not consuming enough calories, and in general that’s not a problem,” Krista Casazza, an assistant professor in the nutrition sciences department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in a university news release.

“But when kids go to school without eating breakfast, their thinking and learning skills can be affected,” said Caxazza.

Before School

Nutritionists advise that children should start the day with fruits, proteins and whole grains.

And most definitely avoid sugary cereals which are not only low in nutrition, but can cause a sugar high followed by a crash.

“A balanced breakfast will fuel the body for a long period and help sustain their attention level through lunch, when they need to eat well again,” Casazza said. “This will hold them until dinner, and they won’t snack ravenously after school.”

After School

No matter how well you plan, often your kids will and do come home from school too hungry to wait until dinner.

Healthy after-school snacks include yogurt, fruits and raw vegetables.

Baked chips, in moderation, can be an option.  For a drink, give them water instead of soda. Almond or rice milk instead of dairy drinks.

Allowing your kids to help make nutritious snacks will go a long way toward their willingness to eat them. There are many fun ideas on creative ways to make these types of snacks appealing.

Ideas for fun nutritious snacks

1. Instead of hard-boiled eggs – make deviled eggs

2. Instead of candy – make a healthy trail mix that includes plenty of Omega3-rich walnuts and almonds

3. Instead of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich – offer naturally sweet, crisp, apple slices and peanut butter

4. Instead of ice cream – make fancy frozen bananas.

Peel a banana, dip it in low-fat yogurt (any flavor), roll it in crushed cereal (again, stay away from the sugary brands) so that it’s completely coated, then freeze.

5. Instead of high-calorie dips – make warmed cinnamon-spiced applesauce (especially good on a cold day) and serve with apple slices

Delicious – and oh, so healthy!  Mayesa healthy chocolate drinks are another easy way to help your students eat right. Try offering Mayesa heated as a hot chocolate drink in the morning with breakfast, or as a frozen chocolate pop for an after-school snack.

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Vending Machines With Healthy Snacks? True!

December 19, 2012

The push within the past several years to encourage Americans to make more healthy choices when it comes to meals and snacks has given rise to a seemingly unique concept – vending machines with healthy foods, instead of the ubiquitous candy bars, chips and sugary sodas.

A San Diego company, Fresh Healthy Vending Cafe, is on a mission – to provide people with those healthy food and beverage options. In its vending machines, you’ll find a variety of healthier drinks that are either low in sugar or naturally sugar-free.

Fresh Healthy Vending Café is the latest exclusive launch of Fresh Healthy Vending, a company that started in 2010 and is revolutionizing vending machines by filling them with healthy, natural and organic foods and beverages. Dubbed the “future of vending” Fresh Healthy Vending Cafe is already the largest Healthy Vending company in North America.

Fresh Healthy Vending Café offers franchised high-tech vending machines that are located in such places as workout facilities, hospitals, military bases, schools, and office buildings.

Besides such healthy alternatives to high sugar sodas as coconut milk, purified water, and herbal teas, you’ll find Mayesa. A healthy chocolate drink, Mayesa adds to the credibility of this new vending machine concept by showing that vending machines can carry snacks and drinks that are not only nutritious and healthy for you, but delicious and enjoyable as well.

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