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If you follow this blog, we like you. You pay attention to Wellness. You're in it to win it. There's also a good chance you participate in our MUS Wellness Incentive program, and do your best to participate in our live and online education. Therefore, we just wanted to call your attention to a little... Continue Reading →

A Montana Meal

As many of you know, our Montana Meals August challenge was to prepare and enjoy a meal made entirely from Montana food. The last two Montana Meals Six Nutritional Tenets are to Take Advantage of all the wonderful foods that are grown in Montana and Enjoy Your Food! The focus of the August Challenge definitely intended to draw focus... Continue Reading →

Keep Your Pantry Well-Stocked!

I hate grocery shopping. Remember that ice-breaker game where each person in the room has to share a little-known fact about themselves? Well, I’m usually not the sharing type, so my palms start to sweat at the mere thought of that game. But today, I am willingly revealing something about myself: I hate grocery shopping.... Continue Reading →

What to eat before the morning workout

While we’ve thankfully gotten a break in 90+ degree temperatures, hopefully many of you took Neal’s safety tips to heart, and have adjusted your schedule during the summer to exercise in the mornings or evenings instead of during the midday heat. If you’re like me, and would prefer to get your workout in before the... Continue Reading →

The Skinny on Fat

Nutrition is a quickly evolving field, and like most sciences, has changed a lot over the last few decades. For instance, do you ever wonder how the low-fat/no-fat diet craze of the 80’s and early 90’s started? Do you wonder how it came to be that Americans were gobbling down entire packages of Snackwell cookies in... Continue Reading →

Fighting the Afternoon Slump

Several of you wrote in with a variation of the following question for last month’s “Ask a Nutrition Question” challenge: What is a good afternoon snack that would increase energy to help me get through the afternoon? For many people, especially those of us that sit at a desk all day, the afternoon slump is... Continue Reading →

Everything you always wanted to know…

Confused about cholesterol and eggs? Want to know more about sugar substitutes? Wondering if you should follow a gluten-free diet? If yes, you’re not alone! Those were a few of the big questions that emerged after combing through the nutrition questions that were sent in for this month’s Montana Meals Challenge of the Month. Join... Continue Reading →

Challenge of the Month: April!

Everything you always wanted to know about... Our April Challenges revolve around two upcoming webinars hosted by Neal and Cristin:  "Everything you always wanted to know about [Nutrition & Exercise] but were afraid to ask." Exercise and Nutrition are big subjects, and it can be overwhelming staying abreast of current information (and misinformation).  We're here... Continue Reading →

Food for Thought

We’ve been posting a lot of individual success stories lately; but today, we thought we’d share a campus success program from Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) in Kalispell. MUS Wellness provides funding for initiatives that promote Wellness on a local, campus level. In the spring of 2014, a group of FVCC employees, including Chef Malcolm... Continue Reading →

2014 End-of-Year Big Winners!

Time to announce our big winners from the end of 2014! First off, we’d just like to say thank you again to everyone who participated in both our MUS Wellness Incentive Program, and our Montana Moves & Montana Meals Challenges of the Month.  We hope you had fun and got healthier along the way!  We’re... Continue Reading →

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