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Get a Full-Body Workout Outdoors!

If you’re someone who believes the only way to get a full-body workout is at the gym, we want to prove you wrong! There are a lot of at-home or at-the-park ways to get that full body workout you’re looking…
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April 21, 2016

Can’t Concentrate This Afternoon? You Might Be Dehydrated.

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April 19, 2016

Choose Healthier Tip: Snacking Healthier!

Snacking is not a sin! When we snack right, we are able to better control overeating during meals.…
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March 24, 2016

How We Can Make Texas Healthier In Just One Week

Officially recognized by the Texas Legislature as the second week of April, Healthy Texas Week is our annual celebration of healthy living in the Lone Star State! We encourage you, Texans, to make it the healthiest week of the year by…
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March 22, 2016

Community Challenge Spotlight: Prosper!

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March 21, 2016

Community Spotlight: Alvarado!

After winning big in the extra-small community category last year, Alvarado TX is back with a strong showing in the 2016 Community Challenge! Alvarado sits at first place in their size category once again, and the community doesn’t look like…
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March 7, 2016

Take a FREE Fitness Class Every Day of SXSW!

South by Southwest is bringing more than just film, media and music to Austin this year. IT’S TIME TEXAS and Choose Healthier want to make sure there’s plenty of fitness opportunities too! We’re partnering up with some of our favorite Choose…
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March 4, 2016

Community Challenge Spotlight: Athens!

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February 22, 2016

Community Challenge Spotlight: Pasadena!

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February 5, 2016
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Community Challenge Spotlight: Corpus Christi!

The 2016 Community Challenge is far from over, and Texans in Corpus Christi are busy fighting for the prize! Corpus Christi currently sits in third place in the metro division, behind San Antonio and Austin, but Mayor Nelda Martinez is…
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January 25, 2016
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Choose Healthier Coach Tip: Resolutions You Can Stick With

It’s usually around this time that we start slipping on our resolutions. Life hits us with busyness and that sense of gusto we experienced two weeks ago morphs into mid-January guilt.…
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January 20, 2016

Community Challenge Spotlight: San Angelo, TX

With almost two weeks of the 2016 Community Challenge under our (slightly looser) belts, there is already fierce competition in every……
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January 8, 2016

Easy, Healthy Holiday Gift Idea: Homemade Fruit Butter!

Mulling over what to give your friends and family this holiday season? On a tight budget?…
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December 17, 2015
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Three Tips for a Healthier Thanksgiving!

With Thanksgiving around the corner, many of us here in Austin will join the mass exodus along IH-35 for the long and painstakingly slow trek home. If you’re worried about how to plan for your normally 3 ½ hours but…
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November 23, 2015
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The Halo Effect

If you’re a well-informed, health-conscious person who has put on some unwanted pounds in the past year despite trying to eat healthy, there’s a good possibility that the Halo Effect was at work! As humans, we conceptualize our world using…
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November 11, 2015