Celebrate National Nutrition Month

March is National Nutrition Month.

March 5th - 9th is National School Breakfast Week. Hooray to that. A healthy breakfast is so vitally important for proper health no matter a person's age. Breakfast gets your metabolism reved up so you burn more fat & calories through out the day. Skipping breakfast slows down your metabolism and can lead to your body becoming an effecient fat storage facility -- YIKES! Breakfast helps your brain function optimally as well -- Very important for those young learning minds as well as those adult minds on the job.


How Much Is It Worth? The Car, The Dog, My Body

I am often amazed at how little people know about how to properly care for their bodies. For heaven's sake, most people know more about how their automobile functions, all of its parts and how to keep it running for ideally for well over 100K miles, yet they can't tell you what their resting heart rate is or what their percent body fat is and most of them don't even know what their percent body fat should be, and they have no clue how fast they can walk or run a mile. You better believe they know how fast their car goes from 0 to 60 mph. Most people don't even know all of the parts that make up their body, they don't know the names of their muscles, how they function, they may know the names of their inner body organs, but most don't know exactly what the organs do or how they work in synergy or how proper nutrition keeps them working optimally.

Then their are those folks who are animal lovers and they go to amazine lengths to make sure that their pets are supremely healthy. They spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars a month ensuring that their pets have the best veteranarian care, the top of the line pet food, and they dedicate time everyday to their pets health and nutrition and take time weekly or monthly to research & study better ways to care for their pet, all the while neglecting their own incredible, priceless body. The cars can be replaced, even though our pets hold a special place in our hearts and in our families they too can be replace. You, my friend, cannot be replaced you are the one and only. How much is your body and your LIFE worth? I'll say it again...PRICELESS!! Furthermore, the cars and the pets are not of much value to us if our own health is so poor that we cannot care for or enjoy them. So I encourage you to re-assess how you are caring for you own body and make it a priority to start educating yourself on this priceless body temple you are living in. Here are some educational resources for you to dive into during this magnificent month of March -- National Nutrition Month.


GET Smart! Educate Yourself

If you'd like a list of nutrition books -- everything from nutrition for kids to nutrition for treating illness to healthy eating on the go -- there is an extensive book list on the American Dietetics Association website www.eatright.com. Look for the tab that says "Good Nutrition Reading List." There is another tab "Nutrition Fact Sheets" that has a lot of great articles on everything from artificial sweetners, fats & oils, nutrition for kids, grains & pastas, etc.

www.nutrition.gov has some great information articles as well. I liked what I found under the link "Smart Nutrition 101."

Another great resource website is that of my friend & colleague, Deanna Latson. She's got articles on everything from sports nutrition to childhood nutrition to organic nutrition. She also host education teleseminars. www.gotohealth.com


This should give you a great start on gaining greater knowledge and wisdom about your amazing body and how to take the very best care of it nutritionally and otherwise. Check back to this article throughout the month of March for additional websites & books & resources that will be posted on a weekly basis.

To Your Best Health!!

Your Healthy Lifestyle Mentor -- Melissa Guthrie