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  • Healthy recipes: Spinach salad with grilled eggplant and feta

    The Health and Wellness Center dietician provides a series of seasonal recipes for each month. February's recipes are based on spinach.Ingredients: 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil1/4 cup fresh lemon juice1 teaspoon minced garlic2 teaspoons oregano1 (1 1/4 pounds) eggplant, trimmed and cut into 8

  • Healthy recipes: Spinach macaroni and cheese

    The Health and Wellness Center dietician provides a series of seasonal recipes for each month. February's recipes are based on spinach.Ingredients: 3 cups medium shell macaroni, uncooked1 6-ounce package fresh baby spinach leaves2 tablespoons flour2 cups skim milk2 cups 2 percent shredded sharp

  • Buying organic foods: What you need to know

    According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, organic food sales have increased over the years. Organic products are different from conventional products because of the way farmers grow and process them. These farmers use natural fertilizers, beneficial insects and birds to reduce pests and

  • Healthy recipes: Salmon and white bean salad

    The Health and Wellness Center dietician provides a series of seasonal recipes for each month. February's recipes are based on spinach.Ingredients: 6 tablespoons light balsamic vinaigrette, divided4 salmon fillets (about 1 pound)1 can (19 ounces) cannellini beans, rinsed1 plum tomato, seeded and

  • Before you walk out: Grab some breakfast

    After a long night of sleep, your body has gone without food for many hours, so you need fuel to jump-start your day.Many people skip breakfast and other meals during the day, something I don't recommend. By letting yourself get too hungry, the results may be fatigue, inability to focus, getting

  • I'm glad he's home: Reintegrating after deployment

    It's great having someone around again to change the light bulbs and fix closet doors, but those were the small things that were easy to let go for the past four and a half months while my husband was deployed. Since we had been married for only two months before my husband, Staff Sgt. Clifford

  • Healthy recipes: Quick Italian vegetable soup

    The Health and Wellness Center dietician provides a series of seasonal recipes for each month. January's recipes are based on carrots.Ingredients:1 tablespoon olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped2 carrots, sliced2 stalks celery, sliced1 (16-ounce) can diced plum tomatoes2 teaspoons Italian seasoning 2

  • Healthy recipes: Slow cooker savory pot roast

    The Health and Wellness Center dietician provides a series of seasonal recipes for each month. January's recipes are based on carrots.Ingredients: 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) low fat/98 percent fat-free condensed cream of mushroom soup1 packet (about 1 ounce) dry onion soup and recipe mix6 small red

  • Losing weight is a change of lifestyle

    One of the most common New Year's resolutions is to lose weight and that's why starting the month of January, the fitness center is unusually packed.However, as weeks pass by, that number slowly dwindles down to the individuals who have stuck to their resolutions.The reason why most individuals fail

  • Healthy recipe: Carrot rice

    The Health and Wellness Center dietician provides a series of seasonal recipes for each month. January's recipes are based on carrots.Ingredients: 1 cup basmati rice 2 cups water1/4 cup roasted peanuts1 tablespoon margarine1 onion, sliced1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger root3/4 cup grated carrotsSalt,