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The holiday season can feel like a lot. Expectations, schedules, food, plans, and the general pace of everything shifting at once. It is easy to get pulled in ten directions and forget to take a breath. This is one reason I bring back the 12 Days of

The holidays tend to bring out the all-or-nothing mindset. People feel like they have to avoid every cookie at the party or, on the flip side, decide nothing matters and overdo it. Neither one actually helps you feel better. Holiday eating without gu

A lot of people look at health as a simple matter of discipline or motivation. If someone wants to eat better or move more, they should just try harder. That kind of thinking ignores how real life works. Social determinants of health shape nearly eve

December 1 is a good reminder that the year is wrapping up, but there is still time to make meaningful choices without falling into the pressure of all-or-nothing thinking.
The 12 Days of Wellness is designed to support this exact moment. It offers

Every year around the holidays, people get a little too relaxed with food safety. The problem is that bacteria do not take time off. Leftovers sit out too long, the fridge gets overstuffed, and people assume they can “tell” if food is sti

Thanksgiving may be behind us, but the holiday season is just getting started. This is where many people start to feel out of control with food. It is not the one meal on Thanksgiving that throws people off. It is the constant stream of events, treat

Thanksgiving can bring a lot of pressure around food. It does not need to be an all or nothing day. You can enjoy the dishes you look forward to without turning the whole day into a marathon of eating. A good place to start is to slow down and notice

Blood sugar management gets talked about a lot in the context of diabetes, but it affects far more people than most realize. Ever feel shaky mid morning, wiped out in the afternoon, or hungry again thirty minutes after eating? That is often a sign th

Shelley A. Rael, MS RDN LD

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