Today, I’m featuring another important repost from days gone by; this one from about a year ago. It’s so important to make the extra effort in choosing the foods our kids eat. They develop a taste for what we feed them, be it good or bad, homemade or McDonald’s, whole foods or processed. All it takes is a scanning of the label and a refusal to buy garbage. Read on!
I have a confession to make: I got a little spoiled this summer. With three teens and a four-year-old, it was nice only having to make lunch for one of them. The older ones were on their own when it came to making their lunches, and didn’t seem to mind one bit.
Now that school has begun again (for two of them, anyway — one graduated last June), I’m back to my job as chief lunch maker. They do make their own lunches to take on occasion, but I’m still the one who decides which foods will be in the cupboards and fridge to pick from.
The hardest part, for me, is variety — making sure they don’t get tired of the same-old, same-old. The easiest part is making sure they’re not getting junk, and it’s easy for one reason: I read food packaging labels and I know what I’m looking for.
My “dream lunch” to send to school with my kids would be something like this:
Turkey sandwich on whole wheat
Fruit
Veggies with healthy ranch dip
Crackers with no added MSG, sugar, or high fructose corn syrup
Water or milk
But…that’s not always possible, nor what they want on a daily basis. Sometimes I’ll give in (Doritos, cookies), but only a little, and not too often. It’s easy to throw a lunch together with conveniently-packaged snack foods from the grocery store, but it really doesn’t take that much effort to make it healthier.
At the very least, keep an eye out at the grocery store (yes, read labels while you’re shopping) for the usual criminals: monosodium glutamate (a.k.a. MSG), high fructose corn syrup (HFSC), bad fats, and artificial sweeteners.
Why? MSG is a known neurotoxin that never leaves the human body and has been proven to cause allergic reactions in sensitive individuals. HFCS can wreak havoc on the body and is thought to make certain people more prone to developing diabetes, and artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose (Splenda), Nutra Sweet, and others are chemically derived, can cause symptoms like headaches and depression, and can contribute to obesity by actually causing you to actually crave real sugar…after all, you can’t really fool your own body — at least not for very long.
I’m always amazed at how many prepackaged foods contain food additives like the ones mentioned above. (MSG is also known by many other names. Read this post to learn more.)
We parents hold our children’s health in our hands…literally. It is vital to make sure we’re feeding them the healthiest foods possible and are teaching them good habits now. I realize it’s not always possible to keep this stuff out of our cupboards (especially if you aren’t the only grocery shopper in your family), but at least getting started — and making changes, no matter how small — is the important thing.
In the spirit of the highly popular book series, Eat This, Not That, I’d like to share with you some good substitutes for your kids’ school lunches. I’ve compiled a list of common not-so-healthy lunchbox items and their more nutritious counterparts (notice I didn’t say “perfect,” just “more nutritious”). You’ll notice that some of the items do contain sugar, but when it comes right down to it, I’d rather my kids have a small amount of sugar than HFCS or chemically-derived artificial sweeteners. Our bodies at least know what to do with regular sugar (eat it or store it as fat), but simply gets confused by the others.
Peanut butter. Here is a good example of choosing “the lesser of two evils.” I know what you’re thinking…how could peanut butter possibly be evil? I love peanut butter as much as the next kid (I’m a kid at heart), but there are two things to watch out for: calories and fats. Rather than do an all-out comparison, I’ll just recommend two brands that I’ve bought, eaten, and fed to my own family.
The first is Skippy Natural Creamy Peanut Butter. The only ingredients are roasted peanuts, sugar (3 g. per 2 tbsp.), palm oil, and salt. There’s much debate about palm oil, but it’s healthier than regular Skippy Peanut Butter, which contains cottonseed, soybean, and rapeseed oils. (Oops, I guess I just did a comparison.) Skippy Natural has 190 calories per two tablespoons; 140 of those are from fat.
The second I’m going to recommend is Adam’s 100% Natural Creamy Peanut Butter. It has more calories at 210 per two tablespoons, 150 of those being from fat. Yikes. However, its only ingredients are roasted peanuts and salt. Adam’s Peanut Butter is an acquired taste, I’ll admit, especially if your kids are used to regular peanut butter, which is sweeter and more processed.
Jelly and/or Jam. Do NOT buy “low sugar” or “sugar free” unless it’s from the nutrition section of the store. I can pretty much guarantee it will contain artificial sweeteners. (Smucker’s Simply Fruit “Low Sugar” variety has the NutraSweet logo right on the label.) Also, avoid jams and jellies with HFCS. My favorite sweetened-with-sugar-only brand is Danish Orchards.
Crackers. Many store-bought cracker varieties contain MSG and HFCS. There’s no need for it! It’s one of my chief frustrations while shopping to see foods that are full of this garbage being marketed toward our children. Even Cheez-It crackers — the regular variety contains MSG. The same brand’s whole grain variety does not, so if your kids like Cheez-Its as much as mine do, get the whole grain ones. They don’t taste ANY different.
Update: You can also try making your own crackers that aren’t full of the preservatives and flavor enhancers like many of the store brands are. Do a Google search for “healthy cracker recipes” and you’ll find more than you can possibly use.
 Capri Sun. Ah, memories. My mom put Capri Sun pouches in my lunch when I was in junior high school (back in the…ahem…early 80s). There are more varieties of Capri Sun now, so being a vigilant parent is very important if you buy them for your kids. Depending on the variety, you could be giving your kids HFCS or artificial sweeteners (sucralose, in this case, which caused serious depression in me last year…so I know first hand how bad it is). Stay away, for example, from the Roarin’ Waters variety. It’s clear in color, so it makes you think it’s healthier. NOT. Roarin’ Waters contains sucralose, identified as “Splenda brand sweetener” on the ingredients list. If a child can’t have sugar, I can understand why a parent might need to buy items with artificial sweeteners once in a while. HOWEVER, Roarin’ Waters also contains sugar along with the sucralose. If someone could explain the reasoning behind that, go ahead: I’m all ears!
Instead of Roarin’ Waters, buy instead the Original Capri Sun, which is sweetened only with sugar and real juice concentrates. Their Sunrise variety is also sweetened only with sugar, and their 100% Juice line is just as it says…100% juice. See my previous post on Capri Suns here.
Of course, my favorite (and usual) drink to send along with my kids in their lunches is bottled purified water.
I hope this article has given you some “food for thought.” If you remember none of what you read here, at least remember this: READ LABELS before you buy. Steer clear of MSG, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, trans fats (and saturated fats, when possible). If it doesn’t sound natural, it most likely isn’t. Also, when you can, avoid unnecessary sugar. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind when reading labels is this: A long list of ingredients gives you a long list of reasons to not buy that particular product.
©2010 Sally Dinius
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Sally Dinius is writer-in-chief here at CrazyBusyMama.com, a blog created to inspire and motivate busy mamas everywhere to feel healthy, fit, and in control of their lives. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sdinius, and come join the CrazyBusy Mama Facebook page by clicking here.
If I could shout a clarion call to all parents in the civilized world, it would be this (if you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you could probably say it with me): “READ FOOD PACKAGING LABELS!”
When shopping, it’s easy to take the smooth road and toss things in our carts without even glancing at the label, especially if we’re tired, money’s tight, or if our kids are with us. I know how that is – that used to be me. But when we take the time to learn about what major food manufacturers are putting in the foods we buy and the effects those ingredients have on our health (immediate and future), we suddenly begin to see that reading labels is no longer a chore…it’s our right and our responsibility. We must understand and own the fact that good health is our right and no one’s responsibility but our own.
What really makes my blood boil is when unhealthy packaged foods are marketed to our children with flashy packaging, cartoon-type drawings, and promises of treats. This kind of unscrupulous, unethical marketing has been going on for decades, but I’m hoping the day will come – and soon – when the majority of parents become wise to it.
 My husband and I were grocery shopping the other day, and while he was looking for the ingredients he needed to make chili, a huge sign advertising a product called LunchMakers by Armour caught my eye. LunchMakers are a Lunchables-type product, and were being sold for just 88 cents each. (Interestingly, I couldn’t find a link on the Armour site to view the nutritional information for LunchMakers. File that under “things that make you go hmm.”)
Wow. What a great deal, huh? Sure, if someone wants to fill their child full of “food grade” garbage, including a cancer-causing chemical that’s been banned in Europe (see below).
Here, in all it’s non-glory, is the too-long ingredients list from the back of the package (so long that it had to be printed in a very tiny font just to make it all fit on the label). I’ve said before…I’ll say it again: If the ingredients list on a package contains more than just a handful of items, put the item back on the shelf and walk away. You may see some things on the list that you recognize (flour, milk, etc.), but the rest is little more than preservatives, fillers, flavor enhancers, non-nutritive sweeteners, artificial sweeteners, and the like. Yuck.
So, here we go. The ingredients every parent should definitely be concerned about are in bold font. Maybe I should have hired a speed reader to read this in a video for you (it would have at least made it entertaining):
LunchMakers by Armour “Pepperoni Flavored Sausage Pizza Kit” Ingredients
Pizza Crust: Enriched bleached wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, corn oil, yeast, sugar, salt, calcium proprionate, guar gum, xantham gum, food starch, monoglycerides.
Pizza Sauce: Water, tomato paste, high fructose corn syrup, salt, spices, soybean oil, modified food starch, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preservative), garlic powder, xantham gum, onion powder.
Low-moisture, Part-skim Mozzerella Cheese: Pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, anti-caking agent (cellulose), natamycin (preservative).
Pepperoni Flavored Sausage: Pork, mechanically separated turkey, corn syrup, pepperoni [pork, beef, salt, contains 2% or less of beef, dextrose, flavorings, lactic acid starter culture, oleoresin of paprika, sodium nitrite, BHA, BHT, citric acid], salt, water, contains 2% or less of beef, dextrose, oleoresin of paprika, flavorings, modified food starch, potassium lactate, smoke flavoring, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, BHA, BHT, citric acid.
Then it lists the ingredients of the included Nestle’ Crunch Bar, which I’m not going to copy here since it’s not the issue (though it could be, as it does contain sugar…but letting kids eat candy during the school day is another topic for another time). Following are the highlighted questionable ingredients — and why you should question them:
Sugar. Ahh, sugar. It’s in almost everything we purchase. It’s really not in that high of a dose in this package (9 grams total, and that includes the mini candy bar), but because we should limit the amounts of sugar our kids eat, especially during the school day when even a slight blood sugar crash could affect learning, I’m mentioning it here.
Calcium propionate. Calcium propionate (I’ll call it CP) is a preservative that’s included in breads for its mold-inhibiting activities. It’s not added for the calcium – calcium can be included in other ways. Many children, often with undiagnosed food allergies, have negative behavioral reactions to calcium propionate. If your child often seems “off the wall” after eating foods containing CP, look for preservative-free breads (and, because whey powder usually contains CP, make sure your bread is also whey and whey powder-free).
Food starch, modified food starch, flavorings, cheese cultures, and enzymes. According to the site Truth in Labeling, these ingredients “sometimes or always contain or create monosodium glutamate.” (Click here for a very informative list of hidden sources of MSG that you can print out and take to the grocery store next time you go.)
High fructose corn syrup. A cheap sweetener, usually only included because it’s so inexpensive, that is being increasingly implicated in a growing (no pun intended) epidemic of childhood obesity and diabetes. Why is it used in so many of our food products? As mentioned in the article referenced in this paragraph, HFCS is about six times sweeter than sugar and costs about half as much.
Mechanically separated turkey. I’m including this in the list just because it’s gross. Mechanically separated meat isn’t cut up by sharp machines on a conveyor belt, it’s meat that is separated from the bones by being pressed – mechanically – through a sieve under high pressure. Imagine the meat your child is going to consume being pressed through tiny holes like paste. That’s disturbing and creates a disgusting mental picture. You may also remember the Mad Cow scare from several years ago. The UK banned mechanically-separated beef from being sold to consumers because the meat often contained portions of the cow’s spinal cord, which is where the Mad Cow virus was typically found. I don’t know – I’ll leave this one up to you, but I’m staying away from mechanically-separated meat of any kind. (What happened to the days when Grandma used to boil the bones to remove the extra meat in order to make soup? These big companies can’t do that?)
Sodium nitrite. Sodium nitrite is a dangerous chemical once in danger of being banned – decades ago – by the USDA. The meat industry, of course, convinced them otherwise (another example of how money talks). Sodium nitrite is used to stabilize the color in processed meats, like hotdogs. When eaten, it turns to nitrosamines, highly carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals that have been implicated in cancers such as pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and leukemia. Cancer rates in the U.S. skyrocketed after the addition of sodium nitrite to our food supply.
BHA and BHT. According to About.com, “Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and the related compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) are phenolic compounds that are often added to foods to preserve fats.”
BHA has been found to be positively carcinogenic, and BHT possibly carcinogenic. BHA, identified as a known carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, has been banned in Europe but not here in the US. I find the fact that it has not been banned here, quite honestly and simply, pathetic.
Smoke flavoring may also have a toxic effect on the body.
The amounts of dangerous additives in this package are small enough to not really cause any noticeable harm if eaten just once (unless your child is severely allergic to one or more of the chemicals/additives present). What is alarming to me is the seriously high number of unhealthy and/or dangerous substances crammed into this one package. And if a child is fed this garbage on a regular basis, these chemicals and additives WILL build up in his body and – very likely – cause serious health problems later. (Some sooner than later.)
It’s like playing Russian Roulette with our children’s health.
 Besides all of these unnecessary additives, you’ll notice the amount of sodium in this one small package is very high at 550 milligrams. According to the Mayo Clinic, that’s one-half to one-third of the recommended daily limit of sodium intake for children, depending on the child’s age and size. A steady diet of high sodium foods like this could put any child on the path to developing hypertension (high blood pressure).
Obviously, we can’t avoid every dangerous additive in our food supply. But with diligence and knowledge we can significantly decrease our families’ exposure to it. Study up and spend some time on Google learning about the additives mentioned above.
After all, knowledge is power. The more we know, the less of these “foods” we’ll buy, and perhaps then these big manufacturers will begin to change the way their products are made. Like I said…money talks.
By the way, a friend of mine had a great suggestion if your child likes this type of lunch: “Small cookie cutters do a great job of mimicking the meat in the package. And you can get fun designs in the cutter that Lunchables and the like will NEVER have.” (Thanks to Eric Ehrman for that idea.) It’s also a fun way to get your kids involved with making their own lunches.
Comments welcome!
©2010 Sally Dinius
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Sally Dinius is writer-in-chief here at CrazyBusyMama.com, a blog created to inspire and motivate busy mamas everywhere to feel healthy, fit, and in control of their lives. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sdinius, and come join the CrazyBusy Mama Facebook page by clicking here.
I have a confession to make: I got a little spoiled this summer. With three teens and a four-year-old, it was nice only having to make lunch for one of them. The older ones were on their own when it came to making their lunches, and didn’t seem to mind one bit.
Now that school has begun again (for two of them, anyway — one graduated last June), I’m back to my job as chief lunch maker. They do make their own lunches to take on occasion, but I’m still the one who decides which foods will be in the cupboards and fridge to pick from.
The hardest part, for me, is variety — making sure they don’t get tired of the same-old, same-old. The easiest part is making sure they’re not getting junk, and it’s easy for one reason: I read food packaging labels and I know what I’m looking for.
My “dream lunch” to send to school with my kids would be something like this:
Turkey sandwich on whole wheat
Fruit
Veggies with healthy ranch dip
Crackers with no added MSG, sugar, or high fructose corn syrup
Water or milk
But…that’s not always possible, nor what they want on a daily basis. Sometimes I’ll give in (Doritos, cookies), but only a little, and not too often. It’s easy to throw a lunch together with conveniently-packaged snack foods from the grocery store, but it really doesn’t take that much effort to make it healthier.
At the very least, keep an eye out at the grocery store (yes, read labels while you’re shopping) for the usual criminals: monosodium glutamate (a.k.a. MSG), high fructose corn syrup (HFSC), bad fats, and artificial sweeteners.
Why? MSG is a known neurotoxin that never leaves the human body and has been proven to cause allergic reactions in sensitive individuals. HFCS can wreak havoc on the body and is thought to make certain people more prone to developing diabetes, and artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose (Splenda), Nutra Sweet, and others are chemically derived, can cause symptoms like headaches and depression, and can contribute to obesity by actually causing you to actually crave real sugar…after all, you can’t really fool your own body — at least not for very long.
I’m always amazed at how many prepackaged foods contain food additives like the ones mentioned above. (MSG is also known by many other names. Read this post to learn more.)
We parents hold our children’s health in our hands…literally. It is vital to make sure we’re feeding them the healthiest foods possible and are teaching them good habits now. I realize it’s not always possible to keep this stuff out of our cupboards (especially if you aren’t the only grocery shopper in your family), but at least getting started — and making changes, no matter how small — is the important thing.
In the spirit of the highly popular book series, Eat This, Not That, I’d like to share with you some good substitutes for your kids’ school lunches. I’ve compiled a list of common not-so-healthy lunchbox items and their more nutritious counterparts (notice I didn’t say “perfect,” just “more nutritious”). You’ll notice that some of the items do contain sugar, but when it comes right down to it, I’d rather my kids have a small amount of sugar than HFCS or chemically-derived artificial sweeteners. Our bodies at least know what to do with regular sugar (eat it or store it as fat), but simply gets confused by the others.
Peanut butter. Here is a good example of choosing “the lesser of two evils.” I know what you’re thinking…how could peanut butter possibly be evil? I love peanut butter as much as the next kid (I’m a kid at heart), but there are two things to watch out for: calories and fats. Rather than do an all-out comparison, I’ll just recommend two brands that I’ve bought, eaten, and fed to my own family.
The first is Skippy Natural Creamy Peanut Butter. The only ingredients are roasted peanuts, sugar (3 g. per 2 tbsp.), palm oil, and salt. There’s much debate about palm oil, but it’s healthier than regular Skippy Peanut Butter, which contains cottonseed, soybean, and rapeseed oils. (Oops, I guess I just did a comparison.) Skippy Natural has 190 calories per two tablespoons; 140 of those are from fat.
The second I’m going to recommend is Adam’s 100% Natural Creamy Peanut Butter. It has more calories at 210 per two tablespoons, 150 of those being from fat. Yikes. However, its only ingredients are roasted peanuts and salt. Adam’s Peanut Butter is an acquired taste, I’ll admit, especially if your kids are used to regular peanut butter, which is sweeter and more processed.
Jelly and/or Jam. Do NOT buy “low sugar” or “sugar free” unless it’s from the nutrition section of the store. I can pretty much guarantee it will contain artificial sweeteners. (Smucker’s Simply Fruit “Low Sugar” variety has the NutraSweet logo right on the label.) Also, avoid jams and jellies with HFCS. My favorite sweetened-with-sugar-only brand is Danish Orchards.
Crackers. Many store-bought cracker varieties contain MSG and HFCS. There’s no need for it! It’s one of my chief frustrations while shopping to see foods that are full of this garbage being marketed toward our children. Even Cheez-It crackers — the regular variety contains MSG. The same brand’s whole grain variety does not, so if your kids like Cheez-Its as much as mine do, get the whole grain ones. They don’t taste ANY different.
Capri Sun. Ah, memories. My mom put Capri Sun pouches in my lunch when I was in junior high school (back in the…ahem…early 80s). There are more varieties of Capri Sun now, so being a vigilant parent is very important if you buy them for your kids. Depending on the variety, you could be giving your kids HFCS or artificial sweeteners (sucralose, in this case, which caused serious depression in me last year…so I know first hand how bad it is). Stay away, for example, from the Roarin’ Waters variety. It’s clear in color, so it makes you think it’s healthier. NOT. Roarin’ Waters contains sucralose, identified as “Splenda brand sweetener” on the ingredients list. If a child can’t have sugar, I can understand why a parent might need to buy items with artificial sweeteners once in a while. HOWEVER, Roarin’ Waters also contains sugar along with the sucralose. If someone could explain the reasoning behind that, go ahead: I’m all ears!
Instead of Roarin’ Waters, buy instead the Original Capri Sun, which is sweetened only with sugar and real juice concentrates. Their Sunrise variety is also sweetened only with sugar, and their 100% Juice line is just as it says…100% juice. See my previous post on Capri Suns here.
Of course, my favorite (and usual) drink to send along with my kids in their lunches is bottled purified water.
I hope this article has given you some “food for thought.” If you remember none of what you read here, at least remember this: READ LABELS before you buy. Steer clear of MSG, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, trans fats (and saturated fats, when possible). If it doesn’t sound natural, it most likely isn’t. Also, when you can, avoid unnecessary sugar. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind when reading labels is this: A long list of ingredients gives you a long list of reasons to not buy that particular product.
Stay tuned this week — I’ll be giving you healthy breakfast options for your kids, healthy sandwich ideas, and more!
©2010 Sally Dinius
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 Sally Dinius is writer-in-chief here at CrazyBusyMama.com, a blog created to inspire and motivate busy mamas everywhere to feel healthy, fit, and in control of their lives. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sdinius, and come join the CrazyBusy Mama Facebook page by clicking here.
I don’t usually do this when grocery shopping, but the other day a certain product took me so much by surprise that I stopped, stared, and laughed out loud. (It was little embarrassing considering there were other shoppers nearby.) What was the product?
Organic pancake batter.
“What,” you ask, “is wrong with organic pancake batter?”
Nothing, usually, but this stuff was in a – wait for it – SPRAY CAN! You know – the same kind of can usually filled with processed “cheese” or whipped cream.
Being a camera-happy iPhone owner, I just had to take a picture of it, along with the ingredients list. 
In case you can’t read them in the picture, the ingredients are:
“Filtered water, organic wheat flour (unbleached), organic cane sugar, organic eggs, sodium lactate to inhibit spoilage, organic soybean powder, leavening (dicalcium phosphate and sodium bicarbonate), sea salt, organic rice bran extract….”
And last but not least, that most organic of all ingredients (please note the sarcasm): “propellant.”
Hmm….
No, thank you.
How are you at reading labels? If you’re new to it, there are some food additives you’ll want to keep an eye out for. If any of the following ingredients are on the label you’re reading, you should really just put the product back on the shelf.
Let’s start with that propellant. The ingredient most often used as propellant in the same type of can containing the pancake batter (and whipped cream, etc.), is nitrous oxide. According to Drug-Forum.com, it’s been known to “leave a residue similar to motor oil” in whipped cream chargers, “which can be potentially harmful to the user.” Yum, right? With motor oil residue on your pancakes, who needs syrup?
MSG is next. Short for monosodium glutamate, MSG is a “flavor enhancer” with a nasty reputation for causing allergic reactions. It’s also a known neurotoxin that, once you eat it, never leaves your body. Never. Almost everyone has consumed MSG at one time or another, but the point is to do your best to avoid it from now on, and that includes knowing the sneaky aliases it goes by. According to the site, The Carbohydrate Addict, you may be consuming monosodium glutamate (and free glutamates, which they go into detail about on their site) if you eat foods containing the following:
enzyme modified
anything fermented
anything protein fortified
anything ultra pasteurized
autolyzed yeast
barley malt
broth
bouillon
calcium caseinate
carrageen
flavoring
natural flavoring
gelatin
hydrolyzed oat flour
hydrolyzed vegetable
hydrolyzed protein
malt extract
maltodextrin
natural flavors,
pectin
plant protein extract
potassium glutamate
sodium caseinate
soy protein
soy sauce
stock
textured protein
whey protein
yeast extract
yeast food
Like I said…sneaky. (For further reading on how MSG is often hidden in your food, check out Truth in Labeling. )
Besides propellant and MSG, be on the lookout for the other usual criminals: sugar, high fructose corn syrup, different types of fat, white flour, unnecessary additives, and artificial sweeteners like sucralose (a.k.a. Splenda). Choose to keep natural foods in your cupboards as much as possible and make your own meals instead of eating out (especially at fast food joints). Your family may give you a tough time about it, but eventually – when they realize how good they feel – they’ll thank you!
©2010 Sally Dinius
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Sally Dinius is writer-in-chief here at CrazyBusyMama.com, a blog created to inspire and motivate busy mamas everywhere to feel healthy, fit, and in control of their lives. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sdinius, and become a member of the CrazyBusy Mama Facebook fan page by clicking here.
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