Lifestyle matters! This year’s National Nutrition Month® (NNM) is “BITE INTO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ” with the spotlight on YOU!

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is encouraging you to review your own lifestyle. Consider what might work best for YOU to promote your overall health and well-being. (Note that all images in this blog post are the property of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and only displayed in honor of the Academy’s celebration of National Nutrition Month® and National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day).

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It’s March once again and National Nutrition Month (NNM) is here!

National Nutrition Month helps remind us of the unmistakable link between food, nutrition and health. You can find out more by visiting this year’s NNM site.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of National Nutrition Month, we’d like to share 10 categories of tips with you.

Won’t you join us in making this the best celebration ever of NNM?!

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The approach to fueling US Olympic athletes has changed over the years, the past 7 or so years to be specific.

The US Olympic Committee (USOC) has sanctioned a “marrying” of the culinary arts with nutrition science to create a performance-based menu to help each athlete do their personal best in their sport.

Qualified Sports Dietitians(/Sports Nutritionists) work with food service staff to make sure that the needs of a wide range of athletes can be met.

(Symbol of the five Olympic Rings which is in the Public Domain in the United States shown for identification purposes only courtesy of Wikipedia Commons).

To do his or her best, involving various levels of endurance, grace, speed, and/or strength, each athlete needs to know about how health, fitness, and performance interact. Sports Dietitians(/Sports Nutritionists) have a unique opportunity to help educate each athlete when it comes to why the training facility is providing a combination of particular fluids and solids to get in the nutrients these athletes need.

The focus goes beyond maintaining energy stores in each athlete specific to perform in his or her sport.  Meal and snack combos can vary depending upon how close an athlete is to a performance event as for those it is important to ease the strain of digestion so the athlete’s body can focus on the performance. Intake of fluids and solids needs to reduce fatigue, attenuate metabolic stress, speed up recovery, and help maintain ongoing muscle development.

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Since there is ongoing research indicating that some food & nutrition approaches show promise in dealing with prostate cancer prevention, incidence & progression, treatment, and survivorship, this blog post series is dedicated to those seeking that type of information.

Sometimes the silver lining in the clouds winds up actually revealing the benefit of a rainbow…read on for more details…

(Rainbow image courtesy of Photonut via rgbstock.com)

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Lots of apps keep springing up or newer versions of existing ones might come to your attention over this New Year.  Some might prove to be useful to you in your quest to implement any of YOUR New Year’s Resolutions. That’s why we are listing some more of them for you today.

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It’s that time of year again–when people start out with a new set of New Year’s resolutions and then try to actually find a way to implement them. Without a plan and some good tools, that won’t be an easy task. In fact, they may unintentionally be setting themselves up for potential failure.

You can check out a visual way to see what some of these resolutions might typically look like (A Guide to New Year’s Resolutions), by user Lee under Lifestyle at the Infographics & Data Visualization firm’s site known as visual.ly  We can’t store any image from that site on this blog long term, so please check the infographic out yourself!

Another site noted we could embed the graphics on our site, so here’s a little New Year’s sobering up about the fact that as the holidays wind down, most Americans and others around the globe might need to think about what to do next to get “back on track” in the months ahead.

infographic courtesy of nexercise.com.   *This infographic is being shared only for infotainment purposes since the site does have an app.* All rights belong to nexercise.

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