Simple Plans to Achieving Your Health Goals

Remember the New Year’s resolution that you made to improve your lifestyle? You may have resolved to eat healthier, to increase your physical activity or to lose weight. Making a resolution was a good start to being healthier because taking the first step increases the chances that you will attain your goal. (more ...)

The Crucial Role of Recess

In the winter months of North Dakota, it is understandable when children’s recess time is reduced due to dangerously cold weather. But there is also evidence that recess time is being cut short all over the country for reasons unrelated to weather. Schools report that recess has been cut back to reallocate time for academic learning. In addition, withholding recess is commonly used as a punishment or tool to drive desired behavioral outcomes. (more ...)

Dark Green Leafy Vegetables

People have been eating leafy greens since prehistoric times. But it wasn't until the first Africans arrived in North America in the early 1600s that America got its first real tastes of dark green leafy vegetables, which they grew for themselves and their families. So, over the years, cooked greens developed into a traditional African American food. Ultimately, they became essential in Southern regional diets and are now enjoyed nationwide. (more ...)

Chronic Stress Can Get Under Your Skin

Everyone knows the holidays can be stressful. Now that they are over, take stock of how you feel. Are you are you relaxed and happy they are over? Or are you feeling blue because the excitement is over, or because of the darkness of winter? (more ...)

Wheat:  the Whole (Grain) Story

We live in a virtual sea of wheat. North Dakota leads the nation in growing it. Around the world wheat is grown on more land area than any other crop. It has been cultivated for some 8000 years, and its availability as a staple is thought to have been a major contributor to the development of civilizations in Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. Indeed, wheat is an important food grain in our diets. (more ...)