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June 2009

IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE:
· How Food Could Be Making Your Child Sick
· The Truth About Brown Bread
· Surviving Change in Unsettled Times
· The Simple Trick to Burn More Calories
· Success Tips from an Olympic Champion

How Food Could Be Making Your Child Sick

Advice from Robyn O'Brien

Could food allergies be causing your child’s ear infections, headaches, itchy skin, or crankiness? Even when your kid is too young to tell you how he feels or too used to her symptoms to identify them (when kids hurt all the time, they don’t know they hurt), you can often read your child’s condition in his or her skin. In your child’s case, that “toxic invader” might be an apparently harmless food, to which your kid is either allergic or “sensitive.”

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The Truth About Brown Bread

Advice from Dr. Nancy Snyderman

Trying to find a high-fiber, whole grain bread? Don’t let the brown color fool you. While shopping in the bread aisle, don’t assume that a brown loaf of bread is higher in natural fiber. That dark color is often courtesy of additives such as molasses, caramel coloring, or food dyes.

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Surviving Change in Unsettled Times

Advice from M.J. Ryan

If you’re confronting change, try to avoid these ten danger zones which might prevent you from moving forward. Resisting change wears down our bodies, taxes our minds, and deflates our spirits. We keep doing the things that have always worked before with depressingly diminishing results. But soon it’s time to put it back in the driveway and get down to business. And that means developing AdaptAbility.

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The Simple Trick to Burn More Calories

Advice from Jorge Cruise

To accelerate your weight loss results, try walking before breakfast. Walking for 20 minutes right when you get up in the morning is going to help you burn an additional 150 to 200 calories per day. That means if you walk six mornings a week, you’ll burn an additional 1,200 calories per week! This will make a big difference in how quickly you reach your goal.

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Success Tips from an Olympic Champion

Advice from Dara Torres

If Dara Torres could win three silver medals in the Beijing Olympics as a forty-one-year-old mother, you can achieve your dreams as well. Here’s how she worked through pain and uncertainty:

If there’s one thing I’ve learned trying to stay in a young person’s game through middle age, it’s that life is never as simple and straightforward as you think it’s going to be.

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