3-Fitness & Wellness Newsletter

3-Fitness & Wellness Newsletter, February 2011 #3

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Chef Jody’s healthy soup & salad combo

These recipes are full of vitamins and nutrients; they provide your daily servings of vegetables, the nuts provide protein, and both are low in calories!

Wednesday Wellness Recipe: Chef Jody’s healthy soup & salad combo - Chicago Wellness at Examiner

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Spend Valentine’s Day hot and sweaty with your honey—in the gym

Great sex requires stamina, endurance, strength, balance and flexibility—just flip through the Kama Sutra. It also requires trust, support, respect and a common interest. All the things you can get from working out regularly with a partner. So it makes perfect sense that taking your significant other to the gym is not only good for your health but also your relationship.

Spend Valentine’s Day hot and sweaty with your honey—in the gym - Chicago wellness | Examiner.com

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Wednesday Wellness Recipe: Chef Jody’s Vegetarian Chili

It’s good chili weather! This recipe is great for vegetarians, and the beans and veggies make a great source of fiber. It has 10 grams of fiber per serving (daily recommendation is 20-35 grams), 12 grams of sugar and 9 grams of protein.

Wednesday Wellness Recipe: Chef Jody’s Vegetarian Chili - Chicago wellness | Examiner.com

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On Valentine’s Day discover how love can taste, at a cooking class

It is said the way to man’s heart is through his stomach. However, if some of the classic cinematic love stories like 9-1/2 Weeks, Chocolat, No Reservations, and Tom Jones are anything to go by—women’s passions also can be aroused by the potent combination of romance and a tantalizing meal. That’s why the third suggestion in this week-long series of ideas for unique Valentine’s Day gifts is a cooking class for couples.

On Valentine’s Day discover how love can taste, at a cooking class - Chicago wellness | Examiner.com

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Offer Your Sweetheart the Gift of a Loving Touch This Valentine’s Day

Give each other a Valentine’s Day gift of stress relief and enhanced wellness by taking a workshop on couple massage. Not only does a well done massage feel good, research has shown that there are many health benefits of massage including:

Offer Your Sweetheart the Gift of a Loving Touch This Valentine’s Day - Chicago wellness | Examiner.com

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Give your valentine a gift of mental, spiritual, and physical wellness this year

This Valentine’s Day don’t offer your sweetheart a heart-shaped box of candy. Instead give that special someone a gift that will strengthen his or her heart and enhance your relationship—a partner yoga class. Below are three yoga studios in the Chicagoland area that have put together special Valentine’s Day yoga classes for couples.

Give your valentine a gift of mental, spiritual, and physical wellness this year - Chicago wellness | Examiner.com

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American Spoon Foods recalls salsa and sauces for undeclared wheat flour

American Spoon Foods is voluntarily recalling Apple Chipotle Salsa, Maple BBQ Grilling Sauce, And Pumpkin Chipotle Roasting Sauce, which may contain undeclared wheat flour. The wheat flower may be dangerous to those with wheat or gluten sensitivities or allergies.

American Spoon Foods recalls salsa and sauces for undeclared wheat flour - Chicago wellness | Examiner.com

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Be safe in your post-snowpocalypse cleanup efforts

As you venture back out after yesterday’s blizzard, remember that the danger isn’t necessarily over. Remember to take appropriate health and safety precautions during your time outside and doing cleanup. Here’s some tips from the Lake County Emergency Management Coordinator:

Be safe in your post-snowpocalypse cleanup efforts - Chicago Wellness @ Examiner.com

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Chef Jody’s Super Bowl Veggie Pizza

Have your guests make their own pizzas at your Super Bowl party. Just supply the ingredients and let them create. They won't even know how healthy it truly is!

This recipe was inspired by a culinary demonstration at an American Diabetes Association Seminar.

Chef Jody’s Super Bowl Veggie Pizza - Chicago Wellness at Examiner.com

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