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HeartMark Health Plate

The US government shows what they think should be on your plate. Though it is an improvement in the right direction, I think the list should be a bit different. I can teach my food plate in a 45 minute entertaining lecture to children and their parents. I review what each food group is, what […]

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Secret to Sleep

The secret to sleeping well is to do cardio. Stop surfing the web right now and head to the gym. Many exercises are healthy and many might say that they will help you sleep. For example, yoga, which I teach, says that it will relax you. It does. It makes you feel great. But for […]

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Congenital Heart Walk!

Team Planet Heart is proud to return this year to help raise funds for the Congenital Heart Walk! The event will be held on Sunday, November 6th, at 8am, at the Tempe Diablo Stadium in Tempe, AZ. The event raises funds for research to help people who are born with congenital heart challenges. The fundraiser […]

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Dinner for Breakfast (TM)

You’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Your grandmother warned you not to skip breakfast and even to eat a big meal. But for some reason, many people in the US take that to mean that they should eat typical American breakfast foods in a larger quantity. If you […]

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The Protein-Fiber-Calcium-Essential Oils Relationship

HeartMark Health prefers to group food by 4 main categories that are different from the government’s groups. HeartMark Health has been teaching this for a long time. The recent changes to the food pyramid reflect that the government is finally getting closer to understanding that the benefits from the food are the focus of the […]

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Balance—Finding Your Own Prescription

Everybody says balance is good for you. Every article tells you to exercise, eat, and sleep a certain amount that is not too little but not too much. That is the problem. “Everybody says.” It is time that you say it. As a society, we are used to following prescriptions in life–from school rules, to […]

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Take That to the Fair! The Rule of Expansion

Here is another useful fact that no one else has ever talked about because it is another HeartMark Health original: The Rule of Expansion. The Rule of Expansion refers to how much bulk space food takes up in your stomach after it sits there for a few minutes. It assumes that you want to maximize […]

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SPECIAL FOOD FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN

(Below is my article that was printed in 2008 by AZ Parenting magazine.) As parents, we all want our children to be as healthy and as bright as possible. We feed them a mix of healthy food and the occasional junk, hoping the healthy food will cancel out the junk. However, if your children have […]

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