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Want to add more fruits and vegetables into your daily meals? Try some of the following tips. Add fresh fruit to your cereal. Top pancakes with fruit rather than syrup. Cook recipes with fresh and dried fruit. Make soups, casseroles, and past dishes with a variety of vegetables. Add vegetables to omelets. Chop vegetables into bite-size pieces and add to your salads.

Fitness
Make fitness a family affair. Create a fitness contest with family members. Start with simple activities like how many push-ups and sit-ups everyone can do in 10 minutes. Then move on to other activities, like who can walk around the block the quickest. Be creative, and before you know it, your entire family will improve their fitness.

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Keep that holiday meal healthy. When deciding what to serve, choose recipes low in saturated fat, increase whole grains and include a variety of fruits and vegetables. Traditional family recipes can be transformed into lower-fat favorites and modified to provide balance. You can make those old time favorites hearty and healthy!

Fitness
Go shoe shopping! Regardless of what activity your shoe is for, check for key aspects of the fit. Your weight should be distributed throughout the foot evenly, with no pressure point on the ball of the foot. There should be no stress points. Your foot should be “pulled up” rather than “pushed up.” And, of course, you should always buy the shoes “on sale.” (Just kidding)."

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Health and Diet
Can’t pass up on those treats during the holidays? Try creating low fat/calorie versions of those tasty treats or eating the regular versions in moderation. Try angel food cake with strawberries and non-dairy whip topping or choose fruit, fat-free pudding or Jell-O as desert. If you favor a special treat, go for a taste – sometimes a nibble is all it takes to satisfy the craving.

Fitness
Are you overtraining? Here are some signs to watch out for: waking up tired, poor appetite, not sleeping well, feeling drained between workouts, feeling sluggish and depleted of energy throughout the day. Bear in mind that these can also be signs of depression, or other illness. In any case, listen carefully to your body. Take a break from your workout if you need to, or see your doctor.