During these last few days of 2009, you may be thinking about changing your diet and lifestyle. Do you need to lose a few pounds? Do you need to eat better foods to improve your health? Do your kids need to eat healthier foods?

If you are making your new year's resolutions and need a little help designing a healthy new lifestyle, read my Ten Steps to a Healthy New Year to design a healthy new diet and lifestyle for 2010.

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Salads can be an effective tool for weight loss. A salad with greens, vegetables, fruits and nuts is perfect before a meal, or a salad can be the meal if you make it big with lots of healthy vegetables.

Want to know how to make a salad that is high in nutrition an fiber, without a lot of calories? Here is how to create a healthy salad.

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Choosing foods that are high in fiber is a great way to maintain your weight and keep your digestive system healthy. High-fiber foods essentially include whole vegetables, whole fruits and whole-grain products.

Dietary fiber helps to fill you up and keeps you satisfied longer after each meal, so losing weight is much easier - plus many high-fiber foods are also low in calories. Sounds great, right? Learn more about high-fiber foods.

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Remember Y2K? It's already been ten years since we wondered what would happen when the 99s turned to 00s on the computers around the world.

Do you remember what you were eating and drinking back then? How do they compare with what you think about now? Here are ten topics in nutrition we think more about today than we did ten years ago.

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