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Thursday, November 20, 2014

10 Tips For Healthier Grocery Shopping

The grocery store can be a tricky place.

Between the trendy buzzwords on packaging, the tempting low prices on processed food and the limited amount of time you'd like to spend reading nutrition labels, even the most knowledgable shoppers can end up making mistakes in his or her cart.

But with a few tried and true tricks up your sleeve, we firmly believe it's not all that tough to make smarter decisions at the store. That's why we asked a group of nutrition experts to share their top tips for making healthy grocery shopping a success. Here are their suggestions -- add yours in the comments!

Make A List
"Know your grocery store and go with a list of healthy foods in the order they are laid out. That will help you resist temptation, and it speeds up shopping because you're not wasting time cruising the aisles for what you need."

read the full article here

TOPFIT Daily Activities --- Heavy Bag and an Upper Table Rock Run
I started my day in my gym with a 30 minute heavy bag workout, and when I was finished with business for the day, I headed out to Upper Table Rock for a fun run in the fog.




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