Reaping the Best of Summer

August 7th, 2012 by Sophia Mitropoulos in Family

On May 3rd, I packed up my car and headed from Boston to Maine. Summer vacation, here I come! That seems like just yesterday. I had so many big plans for my long summer weekends with friends and family. I was going to go skydiving with my brother, white water rafting with my cousins and to Nashville with my friends to find ourselves some southern gentlemen to take home to Mommy (that’s normal, right?). Now, it’s the first week in August? You have got to be kidding me. Have I done anything I actually planned to do this summer?

Easy, Healthful Snacks

March 20th, 2012 by Sophia Mitropoulos in Healthy Tips

To get you and your family off on the right track for National Nutrition Month, Guiding Stars has compiled a list of delicious and nutritious snacks that are full of stars.

February is Heart Healthy Month

February 2nd, 2012 by Sophia Mitropoulos in Health and Wellness

February is Heart Healthy Month. There’s no excuse to slack off this month by eating the wrong foods. Here are some basic tips for you and your family from Guiding Stars.

Give Them the Tools: They’ll Use Them.

January 18th, 2012 by Sophia Mitropoulos in Healthy Kids

During the thirty- minute drive to Waterboro, Maine, I thought about what I would say to the sixty middle school students who waited there for me. What would they understand about Guiding Stars? What would interest them? Maybe their parents would have been a more appropriate audience for the message I was about to give, a message of nutrition, better choices and the hope for a change in the way so many of us are used to eating.

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