Eating right

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Healthy tailgating

Eating right

Grilled corn is a tasty and healthy alternative to add to your next tailgating gathering. Vegetable trays are another good pick

Jana Milam spends much of her time as a registered dietitian and certified personal trainer convincing people to eat healthier.

Milam acknowledges that's not easy to do when it comes to one of Mississippi's favorite pastimes - football tailgating.

Those pregame and postgame gatherings can be diet busters of the highest order.

Build energy with foods you eat

Eating right

Spicy green bean amandine is a good side item for a heart healthy diet.

Research shows that exercise improves your health, lowers disease risk, and even boosts your energy. Why is it then that many people sometimes feel sluggish and tired right after they exercise? More than likely your body has run out of fuel – or energy, that is.

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Live chat with Chef Tony Harris

Eating right

Be sure to visit GetFitMississippi.com on Wednesday for a live chat with Tony Harris, executive chef at St. Dominic. Harris, known as "Chef Tony" at St. D., will be available to chat about diet specific foods, beginning a healthy diet and maintaining a lifetime of good eating habits.

• 10 a.m. Wednesday

• GetFitMississippi.com

Forum posts

Eating Oatmeal
After digging through my pantry, I found a canister of oatmeal. For the past two days, I have been making oatmeal for breakfast. What are some other uses you have for oatmeal? What is your favorite meal with oatmeal?

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Calorie counting is back in ...
At least, according to The New York Times, it is ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/dining/29calories.html?8dpc

Do any of you count calories? If so, what has your experience been.

For me personally, counting calories has been the only consistent way I've lost weight and kept it off.
Books help you lose weight
There's a new series of books aimed at 9- to 13-year-old girls called Beacon Street Girls. One book, "Lake Rescue," focuses an overweight girl named Chelsea Briggs who overcomes problems to find fitness and eat healthy.

Duke researchers used that book for its six-month childhood obesity program, and the results were astounding.
Foods to combat yeast infections
I am on two antibiotics, which I know will cause a yeast infection. What foods can I eat now to prevent the occurence of such an infection?
Should Mississippi run an ad campaign like this?
New York City is now running advertisements, urging adults to consume no more than 2,000 calories a day.

Should Mississippi run an ad campaign like this?

Here's the article on the NYC campaign:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1847880,00.html

Blog posts

Off the wagon again
... and just in time for the holidays. LOL
Two weeks!
It's been two weeks since I last blogged! Oh my! More than my good eating habits have been slipping apparently!
Spoke too soon
I HAVE gained weight back! ACK! 3 lbs! DOUBLE ACK!

I CANNOT let this get out of hand. I'm too proud of where I was just a few weeks ago to lose control now. It requires constant effort though! Especially when I start allowing breads and pastas back into my diet because it's very hard for me to maintain portion control with those things.

My plan right now is 3 fold.
Sparky’s Top 10 Weight Loss Tips
I don’t consider myself a true success story yet. I feel like maybe a semi success story going from 260 to 200 in 3 years and keeping it around 200 and not gaining it back is what I am the most proud. My goal is about 190 and then I will be ready for the success story section of GetFitMississippi. It’s going to be a tough 10 pounds.
Two birds with one stone
About a year ago, I was diagnosed with a Hiatel Hernia. I've had stomach problems all of my adult life, but it had gotten to the point where I was in a state of discomfort ALL of the time.