Personalize Your Plate Celebrates National Nutrition Month
National Nutrition Month in March promotes healthful eating and reducing chronic disease risk. The Personalize Your Plate theme encourages meals tailored to individual cultural and personal food preferences. It urges informed food choices and year‑round healthy habits with simple ideas like trying new foods, whole grains, and easy healthy lunches.
Experiment with Plant-Based Meals for Budget Friendly Options
Expand menu variety with meatless meals using vegetables beans and lentils. Start with one meatless meal per week and enjoy eating right without complexity. Visit eatright.org and Medina County Health Department offers guidance since 1918 with tax levy support. Equal opportunity provider.
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Health Department
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Soy in foods highlights and allergy concerns
Soy appears in many foods as a protein source and emulsifier, with soy oil in margarine and dressings and lecithin in supplements and dairy substitutes. Allergic individuals face risk from soy in desserts, gum, tuna cans, and restaurant oils, though most allergists advise not fully avoiding lecithin.
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Cleveland Clinic
University of Nebraska
Reducing Lyme Disease Risk Outdoors This Spring
Public health guidance stresses that Lyme disease, spread by blacklegged ticks, remains common in New England and surrounding areas. It urges outdoor wear of EPA registered repellents with DEET or alternatives, treating clothing with 0.5 percent permethrin, daily tick checks, and awareness of tick habitats such as woods, lawns, brush, and near pet and bird feeders.
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Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
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New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Oklahoma
Missouri
Wyoming
mid-Atlantic
Upper-Midwest
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
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