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12 Simple Ways to Make This Your Healthiest, Happiest Year Ever

12 Simple Ways to Make This Your Healthiest, Happiest Year Ever

by Maria Luci, editor at Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen and Rodale’s Happy New Year! There’s nothing more freeing than the beginning of a brand-new year; it’s a fresh start, a chance to begin anew and assess the things you truly want out of life. It’s also the perfect time to go organic! Here are 12 […]

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Dear Reader! What are your dreams for 2016? —Maria Related Posts:12 Simple Ways to Make This Your Healthiest, Happiest Year EverMerry Christmas!Top 11 Ways to Be Happy

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Maria's Five Favorites: New Year, New You!

Maria’s Five Favorites: New Year, New You!

Happy 2015, everyone! Since so many make fitness- and health-related resolutions each year, I’ve put together a list of my favorite earth-friendly workout gear to help get you excited about lacing up those running shoes and jumping into a new year and a new you! 1. At-Home Resistance Toning Kit. Sculpt a lean body at […]

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Happy 2015!

Happy 2015!

Happy New Year, everyone! What are some of your dreams for 2015?   Related Posts:Happy New Year!Maria’s Five Favorites: New Year, New You!12 Days of Winter Meditations: Day 12

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A New Year's Day Tradition: Roast Pork, Mashed Potatoes & Sauerkraut

A New Year’s Day Tradition: Roast Pork, Mashed Potatoes & Sauerkraut

Growing up, our New Year’s Day meal was always a pork roast, mashed potatoes, and sauerkraut, whether we liked it or not. It’s a Pennsylvania Dutch New Year’s tradition. Why? Well, legend has it that it’s because a pig roots forward, which is good luck for the new year, but it’s probably also because it’s […]

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5 Tips for a Fabulous New Year

5 Tips for a Fabulous New Year

I love the start of a new year. It’s like pressing the reset button—a clean slate and all that. Each New Year, I feel like I’ve learned more, rid myself of more bad habits, and gained better insights into what makes life good and fun. I’m an avid resolution maker, but this post isn’t about […]

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12 Days of Winter Meditations: Day 12

12 Days of Winter Meditations: Day 12

Happy New Year: Renewal It’s a fresh start to a brand new year. Hopefully, you are starting it feeling rested, refreshed, and with a list—even if it’s just in your head—of dreams for the coming year. Every day is a new day, but there is only one New Year’s Day each year. I wish you […]

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5 Tips for Effective Resolutions

5 Tips for Effective Resolutions

For a “woman of action” such as myself, this is most important time of the year for contemplating where I’ve been, where I’m headed, and much more importantly where I want to go (and what I want to do.) It’s a time of rebirth, and I use that energy to create the year that I want to have ahead of me, rather than let it happen accidentally. So are five things I’ve learned that help guide me towards a better New Year.

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