Visit CSU website for food and fitness tips

    Colorado State University Extension and the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition on CSU’s campus in Fort Collins teamed up to create a website designed to help Coloradans live a healthier lifestyle. The partners have been working together on their “Live, Eat, Play” format since 2011. The focus is on “living and eating healthy for those who participate in an active Colorado lifestyle” and to “become better informed and more motivated to achieve optimal health at every stage of your life.”  Research-based, current information on nutrition and health is provided through three main links on the home webpage at www.liveeatplay.colostate.edu.
    The “Live” tab is to help you achieve a balance between work and life.  The “Eat” tab has six icons that you can go to for information on Nutrition 101, Eating Well at Every Stage, Building a Healthy Diet, Tools for Disease Management, Recipes and The Healthy Kitchen. You can discover a variety of ideas for physical activities that can provide life-long joy and fitness benefits by clicking on the “Play” tab.
    Ever really want to know how to properly cut an onion? How do you caramelize an onion or why do I need to have Cilantro herb scissors? If you have asked yourself some of these types of questions, CSU is here to help! Added this year is a series of cooking and “How To…” videos in the Eat tab of the Live, Eat, Play website. The Eat Healthy cooking videos will show you how to answer those pesky kitchen questions, as aforementioned, plus explain how to hard boil eggs, cook pasta, measure dry ingredients, store fresh herbs and make Lemony White Bean Dip, just to name a few. These quick tips and strategies will help enhance your cooking skills for nutritious eating.

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