Posted on: Monday, December 27, 2004
ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Eating healthy in 2005?
Advertiser Staff
If eating healthier is No. 1 on your list of resolutions for the new year, remember that baby steps work best, reports WebMD.com. Get more of the good stuff — calcium, vegetables and fish — in your diet by working it into your daily schedule:
• Bring baby carrots or grape tomatoes to work for lunch every day. • Eat one vegetable — something green — at your evening meal. • Designate two "fish days" every week.
Starting Jan. 1, consumers get back their 5 cents when they return the containers to a redemption center.
For a listing of redemption centers, see hawaii.gov/doh, or call 586-4226 or 211.
In the midst of the day-to-day chaos we call life, it's easy to forget about the things that should really matter to us: taking time to nurture ourselves, our families, our homes and our environment.
Every Monday, look here in Island Life for a feature that offers quick tips, fun facts and useful resources to help make life less complicated and the planet greener.
If you have a tidbit to share — from organization tricks to recycling tips — write to zserrano@honoluluadvertiser.com, and include your name and phone number.
• Drink one glass of low-fat milk at breakfast or lunch.
Fight litter — cash in, too
Drink containers are a common eyesore along roadways and streams in Hawai'i. Help fight litter by recycling as many drink containers as possible. As an incentive, the state's new deposit program places a 5-cent redeemable deposit on each marked container; look on the top or side of the container for a deposit label that reads "Hawaii 5¢" or "HI 5¢."
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