Did you Know?
Each year, The American Dietetic Association chooses a theme for its National Nutrition Month® and promotes it with events, brochures, etc.
Steps to Take
Find out the theme for this year’s National Nutrition Month® and how you can take part in it from www.eatright.org.

Did you Know?
Repeated weight loss and weight gain slows the body’s metabolic rate. This makes it easier to gain weight.
Steps to Take
Avoid crash dieting. This makes your body slow down to preserve body fat for reserve. Learn more from www.healthyweight.org.

Did you Know?
A baby’s neural tube starts to develop about 3 weeks after conception (before many women know they are pregnant.
Steps to Take
Females of childbearing age should take a daily supplement with 400 micrograms of folic acid (a B vitamin). Women who have had a baby with a neural tube defect need 4 milligrams of folic acid / day.

Did you Know?
Are you still following your New Year’s diet “evolution” or have you gone back to old habits?
Steps to Take
If you have taken a positive step toward good eating and exercise habits, pat yourself on the back. If not, take that step today. Get help from www.smallstep.gov.

Secrets of the physical game

Are you sticking with your New Year’s resolutions?

Probably not!

If you are (or not), let’s step up the intensity by creating an “Action Plan.”

If you asked a sharp shooter or an archer to hit the bull’s-eye, they would!
How would you know they hit the target? Or missed it?
I know what your thinking …
“What is this bonehead asking me? Of course I would know if the target was hit, I can SEE it!!”

Did you Know?
Control serving sizes. Don’t super size! Improvise.
Steps to Take
Use smaller plates to make it look like you are getting more! Share a restaurant meal or take half home for lunch or dinner the next day.

Did you Know?
There is no magic formula to lose weight.

Steps to Take
To tip the scale in your favor, eat fewer calories than you use up, expend more energy in activity or do both. Get help from www.mypyramid.gov.

Did you Know?
Obesity causes as much preventable disease and death as smoking.

Step to Take
Re-think the term diet resolution as a “health resolution.” Control your weight to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke.

Grazing is a way of eating in which you eat small amounts periodically throughout the day, instead of three main meals. It’s been hailed as a good way to lose weight and help reduce cholesterol levels.

Did you Know?
Resolutions are apt to fail if they are not realistic. Too often people expect to lose 5 or more pounds a week, and feel they have failed when they don’t.

Step to Take
Set goals that can be reached. A realistic amount of weight to lose is between ½ to 2 pounds a week.