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Spring Kitchen: 5 Healthy Cookbooks

As March is National Nutrition Month, our friends at the University Book Store served up five enticing cookbooks whose recipes will energize you to work out and inspire you to eat in. The Don’t Panic Pantry Cookbook By Noah Galuten This is the cookbook that seeks to answer the eternal question: “What am I supposed [...]

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Centering recognition for care providers: Meet Allyson Weymier

Meaningful recognition is a powerful motivator. People need to know that what they are doing matters. They need consistent acknowledgement of their value in an organization, and they need to be given recognition in a way that is significant to them. For nurses and other patient care providers, meaningful recognition might be the difference between [...]

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The Importance of a Good Night’s Rest

Sleep. We could all use a little more of it. According to the CDC, more than 1/3 of Americans are sleep-deprived or suffer from self-imposed sleep deprivation. As a nation, we are not getting enough sleep. This, coupled with the stress of the pandemic, has further disrupted our sleep patterns. A report from the National [...]

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How to Pack a Sustainable Lunch

Making the shift towards conscious and sustainable living doesn’t have to be hard. There are plenty of small lifestyle changes we can make to create less waste and help keep our planet green. One way is to prepare and pack our lunches in a more sustainable way. Whether you’re trying to prepare a nourishing lunch [...]

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Planning for your child’s summer: UW programs, employee discounts and more

It’s March – time to break out the summer camp search for real. Offering a variety of programs and activities, summer camps not only offer fun, meaningful experiences to fit your child’s interests and needs, they’ve also been shown to help build important social skills and contribute to overall wellbeing at a time when depression, [...]

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Go Green with High Fiber Foods

Fiber. The word itself conjures up images of people eating bowls of cereal that look like tree bark or adding a powdery fiber supplement to their food. Although most people have heard good things about fiber, many still have questions about how much we need and where to get it. Fiber is found in nearly [...]

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Fierce compassion: Meet gender equity and justice advocate Lauren Lichty

Content warning: This article discusses sexual and domestic violence. Preventing problems before they occur. That’s a core value of community psychology, an interdisciplinary field that works to foster collective change, community wellness and the empowerment of marginalized and oppressed people. The field has a strong social justice bent, and practitioners are often passionate activists for [...]

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Embrace equity this Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month offers an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the many women trailblazers who came before us. Women’s* History Month was established in 1987 by presidential proclamation to celebrate the contributions and achievements of women socially, politically, economically and culturally over the course of American history. Women’s History Month began in 1978 as [...]

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20 Tips to Save Money at the Grocery Store

Trips to the grocery store can be expensive, especially if you have a lot of mouths to feed. The average U.S. household spends $4,942 on groceries per year, based on 2020 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That’s roughly $412 per month. With inflation rising and continued supply chain shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic, [...]

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