Archives June 9, 2023

Tips for Eating a Healthy Breakfast

by Virginia C. Oubre Healthy Plan

Research studies have shown there are multiple benefits of eating a well-balanced and nutritious breakfast. Freepik

There’s a saying that one should eat breakfast like a King! Remember your nutritionist or doctor telling you to have a heavy breakfast and it is the most important meal of the day? Research studies have shown there are multiple benefits of eating a well-balanced and nutritious breakfast.

We know making a healthy and well-balanced breakfast every morning is overwhelming. But there are many easy-to-make and quick breakfast recipes that can take care of your nutrition intake while making the breakfast preparation effortless. So, if you want to kickstart your day with momentum, here are some tips and recommendations for eating a healthy meal in the morning.

Why is Breakfast Important?

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because of good reasons. Eating a healthy, nutritious, and well-balanced meal in the morning

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CDC issues urgent health warning over salmonella outbreak linked to COOKIE DOUGH from pizza chain

by Virginia C. Oubre Healthy Support

CDC issues urgent health warning over salmonella outbreak linked to COOKIE DOUGH sold at pizza takeout chain — with 18 infections in six states already

By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com

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At least 18 people across half a dozen states have been sickened with salmonella after eating raw cookie dough. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Tuesday that Papa Murphy’s chocolate chip cookie dough or S’mores bars dough was the culprit in the majority of cases. 

Investigators are urging people who have either type of dough in their freezers to toss it while they hope to zero in on the specific conaminated ingredient that caused the outbreak. 

Salmonellosis is the result of infection from one of 2,000 strains of salmonella bacteria and primarily impacts the intestinal tract and occasionally the blood, causing diarrhea, fever, chills,

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After 8 years and 2 weight loss surgeries, Georgia woman finally feels healthy

by Virginia C. Oubre Healthy Body

Finding happiness, health through weight loss

Weight loss surgery can be life-changing. But, it’s not uncommon for people to have the surgery, lose weight, regain it and need a revision surgery. That’s what happened to Felicia Zorn of Holly Springs. She’s been working to get to a healthy weight for eight years, it looks like she’s finally making real headway. She says her breakthrough happened once she considered the mental/emotional side of things.

HOLLY SPRINGS, Ga. – Even now, eight years later, Felicia Zorn still gets choked up watching a certain video of herself recorded by her then boyfriend Jim when she was 28. It was filmed the day before her first weight loss surgery.

In the 2015 video, Zorn stood on a bridge overlooking Downtown Atlanta, at times fighting back tears as she talked about the surgery and the road ahead of her. She weighed 390 pounds at the

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