Category Archives: Healthy Living

A Taste of Wellness at Taste of Chicago

Posted by on October 19, 2011 1 comment

A Taste of Wellness at Taste of Chicago












Wichita, Kan. (Vocus) July 1, 2009

The Taste of Chicago is getting a little healthier this year with participation from the nation’s leading grassroots education program for healthy eating and activity, the Healthy Kids Challenge. Healthy Kids Challenge, the award-winning national non-profit, is joining in the festivities of the 27th Annual Taste of Chicago on July 2.

Healthy Kids Challenge is displaying their Walk through the Pyramid,™ an interactive journey through each of the food groups in the food pyramid. This is the first time Walk through the Pyramid™ will be featured at the Taste of Chicago.

Executive Director, Vickie James, stated “We’re thrilled to be a part of ‘America’s City Picnic’ showcasing affordable, simple steps for Chicagoans to create healthy lifestyles. We encourage everyone to visit us in the Family Village to get a taste of how easy and fun healthy living habits can become for your family.”

James stated that Healthy Kids Challenge offers a unique blend of “edu-tainment,” a fun way of teaching kids and families by combining interactive education and entertainment. The organization provides educational materials, workshops and trainings for thousands of schools, community and civic groups in all 50 states.

James said families can enjoy the interactive sensory learning experience at the Family Village, located between Jackson and Congress Drive from 11 am to 7 pm on July 2.

Healthy Kids Challenge was founded in 1998 to raise awareness and encourage healthy changes in eating and physical activity habits for youth and their families. Healthy Kids Challenge focus of assistance is on positive self-esteem and healthy choices, rather than weight. Healthy Kids Challenge offers simple solutions for schools, communities, and industry by incorporating healthy eating and physical activity into daily life anywhere kids and families live, learn, work, and play. To learn more about Healthy Kids Challenge, visit http://www.healthykidschallenge.org .

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Healthy Girl Introduces Nutritious Alternatives to Unhealthy Recipes

Posted by on August 9, 2011 1 comment

Healthy Girl Introduces Nutritious Alternatives to Unhealthy Recipes











Bacon Cheeseburger

(PRWEB) January 21, 2010

CookingWithHealthyGirl.com is a new Web site that aims to help women and their families embark on the path to healthy eating and living. Healthy Girl provides healthy alternatives to recipes traditionally prepared with ingredients high in calories. Her recipes are the culmination of extensive research conducted on food, nutrition and the human body.

Mandy (Healthy Girl), the site’s founder, began experimenting with her favorite recipes in an effort to shed a few pounds. After trying a few diets with little success, Mandy realized that what she needed most was not a diet change, but a lifestyle transformation. By making just minor changes to dishes she already enjoyed, Mandy could still prepare her favorite meals and not feel guilty. She is excited to share her tips and advice on her Web site and to allow other families to enjoy the same meals.

The site highlights important aspects of a healthy diet, including a grocery list, weekly sweets, healthy morning meals and grocery staples that all kitchens should include.

Healthy girl focuses on six major points when creating healthy recipes: (1) Ensuring the recipe is full of healthy ingredients, (2) Making sure the recipe is tasty, (3) Making sure the portion size is big enough to be filling, (4) Ensuring the recipe should is easy to make, especially when preparing for children, (5) Having a recipe containing everyday ingredients that can be easily found in any supermarket and (6) Having dinner entrées that are always paired with a side.

Following these guidelines, along with modifying the amount of the staple ingredient, allows everyone to enjoy their favorite foods without tipping the scale.

Readers can subscribe to Healthy Girl’s weekly e-mails to receive five recipes a week and extra tips for buying groceries.

Every day Healthy Girl features a healthy eating tidbit:

Moday: New Healthy Meal

Tuesday: New Grocery Tip

Wednesday: Fun, decadent dessert recipe

Thursday: Healthy breakfast recipe

Friday: Making an unhealthy recipe healthy.

Anyone who missed a weekly featured recipe can search Healthy Girl’s archive. Also, Healthy Girl gives visitors the chance to have their own recipe featured on her site.

Leading a healthy lifestyle filled with delicious food is easy following Healthy Girl’s recipes and plentiful advice.

For more information about CookingWithHealthyGirl.com, please contact:

Mandy Potter

573-915-9888

healthy-girl(at)att(dot)net

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McDowell Mountain Ranch: The Award Winning Mater-Planned Community

Posted by on July 16, 2011 1 comment

What can be more beautiful than having a beautiful mountainous area as our front yard or backyard background? In McDowell Mountain Ranch, we have the opportunity to make McDowell Mountains as our home back or front yard. The ranch is an award winning master-planned community, so we should prepare to see an outstanding design that we could never find in other communities. This community lied on 3,200 acre land with natural yet unique ecosystem. It makes living in McDowell Mountain Ranch feels like a lifetime holiday.

 

The community was built in 1992 and open for public three years later. McDowell Mountain Ranch consists of 26 neighborhoods that were built by 14 builders that cost more than $130,000,000. Various infrastructures and facilities like playgrounds, heated pools, spas, green area, picnic area, tennis court and many others are made. Not only building various facilities, but also the developer serves various events and activities that can be enjoyed by the residents.

 

For the small
McDowell Mountain Ranch homes for sale, we can prepare about $200,000. It serves us 1200 square feet home suits for small family. If we want larger home, then we can also have a great choices with the custom homes. If we want to buy homes in McDowell Mountain Ranch, we can visit TheHolmGroupAZ.com.

Nikken Joins Healthy Child Healthy World to Promote Safer Environments for Children

Posted by on June 17, 2011 1 comment

Nikken Joins Healthy Child Healthy World to Promote Safer Environments for Children











Nikken corporate logo


Irvine, CA (PRWEB) May 31, 2011

Nikken, a world leader in wellness since 1975, maintains active relationships with organizations around the world that promote a healthy society. Today, Nikken is proud to announce it has become a Trusted Partner of Healthy Child Healthy World.

The nation’s leading environmental health nonprofit for 20 years, Healthy Child Healthy World strives to inspire change in the marketplace for safer products, while preventing childhood exposure to harmful toxins. To become a Trusted Partner of Healthy Child Healthy World, a company’s products must meet or exceed the organization’s stringent quality standards and demonstrate its commitment to the human and environmental health of generations to come.

The Nikken 5 Pillars of Health® philosophy serves as the foundation of the company’s mission: to inspire people everywhere to discover a better way of life by achieving balance in the key aspects of their lives: Healthy Body, Mind, Family, Society and Finances. Nikken is a complete wellness company that conceptualizes, produces and distributes products that touch upon each of the vital areas of healthy living: restful sleep, clean air and water, balanced nutrition and natural light.

The Nikken water filtration systems do not require electricity and a single PiMag® Water System can take the place of 36,500 disposable plastic bottles, each of which can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. Nikken air filters do not release harmful ozone. Their organic-based nutritional products and dietary supplements are as natural as can be and the certified organic seal on their True Elements® skin care line shows that they meet or exceed the 95% standard use of natural ingredients. In addition, Nikken product packaging uses recycled or recyclable materials and the filler in their shipping cartons is composed of plant starch.

For their continuous efforts to go green, Nikken was named a winner in the California Waste Reduction Awards Program and garnered the Environmental Stewardship Award from Orion Energy. Nikken has been recognized for minimizing their environmental impact, conserving natural resources, installing energy saving solar panels, window tinting and computer-controlled heat and ventilation at their Irvine, California headquarters.

About Nikken

A pioneer of the wellness movement, Nikken has been at the forefront of the rapidly expanding global wellness industry for more than 35 years. It is the company’s mission not only to sell quality products, but also to offer individuals worldwide an improved way of living.

Committed to scientific research and development, Nikken is known for innovative products that combine science, nature and advanced technology. The company’s exclusive line of total wellness products has earned a reputation for delivering results that people can see — and feel. With millions of satisfied customers globally, today Nikken is headquartered in Irvine, California.

For more information, please visit http://www.nikken.com

About Healthy Child Healthy World

Healthy Child Healthy World is a national, nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization that inspires parents to protect young children from harmful chemicals. The organization exists because more than 125 million Americans, predominantly children, now face an historically unprecedented rise in chronic diseases and illnesses such as cancer, autism, asthma, allergies, birth defects, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and learning and developmental disabilities.

Credible scientific evidence increasingly points to environmental hazards and household chemicals as causing and contributing to many of these diseases. Healthy Child Healthy World aims to educate parents, support protective policies and engage communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. Please visit http://www.healthychild.org for more info.

Contacts:

Amy Lin

949-789-2000

amyl@nikken.com

Mabel Chiu

949-789-2000

mabelc@nikken.com

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Largely Anticipated Healthy Living OnLine Store has Now Arrived

Posted by on October 17, 2010 1 comment

Largely Anticipated Healthy Living OnLine Store has Now Arrived










Appleton, WI (PRWEB) November 16, 2006

A popular healthy living resource center http://www.recipes-for-a-healthy-home.com has of late opened an on-line store. While the company Recipes for a Healthy Home LLC vows to maintain their commitment to providing individuals with up-to-date information on healthy living; the company now has the ability to offer products to help people actually live healthy. The newly opened store presents a wide range of products with a special emphasis on organic and natural items.

While the store will likely continue to grow, customers can effortlessly discover organic and/or natural dietary supplements such as: vitamins, minerals, and herbs; as well as locate organic and/or natural personal care products like: lotions, skin creams, hair care products, and various soaps. In addition, the store offers hard-to-find organic and/or natural household products including: pillows, blankets, sheets, towels, and carpeting. Finally, for expecting mothers, http://shop.recipes-for-a-healthy-home.com carries an extensive baby product line.

Note: As a rule, Recipes for a Healthy Home LLC does not carry food items, with the exception of a few non-perishables; however, the company strongly suggests incorporating organic nutrition into daily diets to reduce the chemicals and toxins otherwise consumed.

The purpose of the newly opened store is clearly to provide a convenient one-stop shopping atmosphere that strives to meet everyone’s needs, while remaining faithful to offering simply natural and organic products. Thedy Harrill, owner of Recipes for a Healthy Home LLC, stated “I wanted to provide a store where customers don’t have to search to find natural or organic products; that’s all we want to carry.”

Thedy Harrill is a Registered Nurse in the state of Wisconsin. Thedy started Recipes for a Healthy Home LLC so she could bring a wide range of healthy living information to a larger audience. For many years, Thedy has been educating individuals on the benefits of using natural and organic products. She has been devoted to providing a means of healthy living for her family and friends. While http://www.recipes-for-a-healthy-home.com was originally created to provide viewers with healthy living information on a wide variety of topics from good nutrition and exercise to health indoor air and humidity; Thedy is now able, through her on-line store, to supply a means of healthy living to all.

For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release, contact Thedy S. Harrill or visit http://www.recipes-for-a-healthy-home.com .

About Recipes for a Healthy Home LLC:

Recipes for a Healthy Home LLC is a web based business providing healthy living information and products.

Contact:

Thedy S. Harrill, owner

Recipes for a Healthy Home LLC

920-734-6336

http://www.recipes-for-a-healthy-home.com

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HealthyKidsCatalog.com Announces Launch of ‘Susan Says’ Column in its ?WEIGHT-WISE KIDS

Posted by on September 1, 2010 1 comment

HealthyKidsCatalog.com Announces Launch of ‘Susan Says’ Column in its ‘WEIGHT-WISE KIDS®’ Newsletter Offering ‘Information That Fosters Healthy Children’










San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 25, 2006

Healthy Kids’ Catalog® (http://www.HealthyKidsCatalog.com), a first and one-of-a-kind online catalog company exclusively offering a breadth of “Solutions That Foster Healthy Children™” to help kids of all ages achieve and maintain a healthy body weight, today announced the advent of its feature advice column coined “Susan Says” to be penned by registered and licensed dietitian and certified diabetes educator Susan Burke, MS that, starting in September 2006, will run in every issue of “WEIGHT-WISE KIDS®” — the company’s free monthly electronic newsletter that “serves up” youth-specific healthy living advice, information, news, and resources.

Having earned a Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management Certificate in Training from the Commission on Dietetic Registration, among other notable certifications, degrees and posts that includes serving as a media spokesperson for the Florida Dietetic Association and as the director of nutrition support for an industry leading online diet, fitness and healthy living destination, Susan brings a breadth of experience and expertise to this editorial endeavor. Her question and answer-driven “Susan Says” column will impart practical, common sense, “real world” advice to parents, teachers and other youth caregivers intended to help kids live a healthy, fit and happy lifestyle.

Susan notes, “Given the ominous upward trend of childhood obesity throughout America, Healthy Kids’ Catalog and its ‘WEIGHT-WISE KIDS’ newsletter are desperately needed and long overdue resources. I advocate their approach of providing convenient one-stop access to an array of kid-friendly lifestyle tools and information resources that serve help our children get — and stay — healthy. I’m extremely gratified for the opportunity this column affords to offer my expertise, advice and perspective on this all-important topic to caregivers nationwide.”

Questions for Susan focused around child wellness can be sent to her via email at SusanSays@earthlink.net, or postal mailed to her at 10755 Scripps Poway Parkway, Suite 508, San Diego, CA 92131. Free subscriptions to “WEIGHT-WISE KIDS” are offered online at

http://www.healthykidscatalog.com/newsletter.html. Healthy Kids’ Catalog is also currently conducting a childhood obesity survey intended to gauge the current state of consumer attitudes on the topic. Interested participants can access the survey online at http://www.healthykidscatalog.com/polls.html and, upon completion, will receive a 15 percent off coupon code.

Healthy Kids’ Catalog offers an array of resources intended to help children become weight-wise. The large assortment of kid-friendly healthy living products offered by Healthy Kids’ Catalog run the gamut; categories include Nutrition, Fitness, Exercise Tools/Equipment, Sports Gear, Health-Promoting Toys/Games, Videos, Kitchen Appliances, Books/Literature for Children, Books/Literature for Care givers, Instructional/Educational Materials, and Healthy Living. The San Diego-based company is co-founded by Merilee A. Kern, weight-loss industry veteran, child health advocate and author of the award-winning, healthy living-themed fictional children’s book, “It’s Not Your Fault That You’re Overweight – A Story of Enlightenment, Empowerment and Accomplishment for Overweight and Obese Kids,” who serves as CEO.

About Healthy Kids’ Catalog

Established in 2006 and with corporate headquarters in San Diego, California, first and one-of-its-kind Healthy Kids’ Catalog® (http://www.HealthyKidsCatalog.com) is dedicated to improving the state of kids’ health by offering a comprehensive line of top-quality “Solutions That Foster Healthy Children™” from one convenient online destination. With Healthy Kids’ Catalog, parents, teachers, physicians and other youth caregivers benefit from single-point access to a broad selection of kid-friendly healthy living resources. The company also publishes WEIGHT-WISE KIDS®, a free monthly electronic newsletter that “serves up” youth-specific healthy living advice, information, news, and resources. Healthy Kids’ Catalog was co-founded by child health advocate Merilee A. Kern, CEO and author of the fictional children’s book entitled “It’s Not Your Fault That You’re Overweight – A Story of Enlightenment, Empowerment and Accomplishment for Overweight and Obese Kids,” which was named among iParenting Media’s “Excellent Products of 2006.”

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?LiVe 2.0? Texts Teens to Tackle Obesity

Posted by on July 7, 2010 1 comment

“LiVe 2.0” Texts Teens to Tackle Obesity










Solvang, Calif. (PRWEB) May 26, 2011

Health Media Syndicate announced the release of LiVe 2.0, the newest addition to the nation’s largest teen fitness public service campaign that is being deployed by healthcare organizations. “LiVe-the 8 Healthy Habits”, a vibrant PSA campaign originating with Intermountain Healthcare, has been promoting good advice to teens through humorous TV and radio ads since 2007. Committed to the race to catch kids and help them make their own healthy choices, LiVe has gone mobile and joined the Health 2.0 revolution. Now with spunky texts, LiVe 2.0 reminds its subscribers daily how to be healthy. “Visualize a glass with 10 tablespoons of sugar, now add water, that what’s in one soda.”

“Kids enjoy the LiVe messaging because it makes it cool to be healthy”, says Gale Wilson-Steele, founder of Health Media Syndicate, “and we know that to truly impact their choices, we need to leverage technology and reach them through their favorite channels. LiVe is more than a PSA campaign, it is a movement that provides hospitals and community outreach programs the tools to engage their teens.”

The benefits of the LiVe campaign are being extended to communities nationwide through a partnership program, which generates creative collaboration and funding for new media development. In addition to the robust suite of assets, including 25 30-second PSA-style TV & Radio spots, posters, brochures, educational and in-service material, as well as a 13-week Healthy Habits Course, LiVe now delivers:

    LiVe 2.0 – daily texts, tweets and emails to kids and their parents
    LiVe Island – a web-based teaching tool that makes learning the 8 Healthy Habits an adventure
    Mobile LiVe –instant health ideas, food & activity tracking, free for iPhones and Droids

Organizations wishing to participate as a “LiVe” Partner may customize this turn-key campaign and license the exclusive rights for their designated market area (DMA) by contacting Gale Wilson-Steele, (805) 705-3121, gws(at)healthmediasyndicate(dot)com.

To stay abreast of LiVe across the nation, sign up for monthly LiVe News: http://tinyurl.com/monthlyLiVeNews

For more information, visit http://healthmediasyndicate.com.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Gale Wilson-Steele

gws(at)healthmediasyndicate(dot)com

805-705-3121

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