{"id":466820,"date":"2010-03-24T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f84\/national-nutrition-month-41308\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:36:47","slug":"national-nutrition-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466820","title":{"rendered":"National Nutrition Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.24.10 06:18 AM<\/p>\n<p>I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatright.org\/default.aspx\" >American Dietetic Association<\/a> was pretty smart choosing March to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatright.org\/nnm\/\" >National Nutrition Month<\/a>. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/fruit.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>   They were sure to stick it right between the months of winter-induced comfort food and bathing suit ready days of summertime.<\/p>\n<p>   In the spirit of trying to undo the damage over three feet of snow causes, I&#8217;m using National Nutrition Month as a kickoff for making better food choices.<\/p>\n<p>   To be fair, my dietary habits aren&#8217;t <i>terrible<\/i>, but could certainly use some tweaking. And by &quot;tweaking&quot; I mean, I&#8217;ve really got to start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov\/\" >eating vegetables<\/a>. I&#8217;m pretty good about getting plenty of fruit in during the day- banana for breakfast, berries in my yogurt, apples for snack (don&#8217;t judge the slathering of peanut butter on top). <\/p>\n<p>   My veggie intake pretty much consists of corn on the cob during the summer, and lettuce for my salads and sandwiches. Seriously, that sums it up. I&#8217;m not going to touch squash, broccoli, or green beans, so don&#8217;t waste your time or energy. But, what are <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6849&amp;p_created=1129142560&amp;p\" >some tips<\/a> for sneaking other veggies into your daily routine? I hear a lot of people puree vegetables for recipes. Does that work for you?<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/national_nutrition_month1\" >Gov Gab: Your U.S. Government Blog &#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.24.10 06:18 AM I think the American Dietetic Association was pretty smart choosing March to be National Nutrition Month. They were sure to stick it right between the months of winter-induced comfort food and bathing suit ready days of summertime. In the spirit of trying to undo the damage over three feet of snow causes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}