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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s the last day to enter The Dorm Room Diet “Get A Tip, Give A Tip” contest for a chance to receive a free copy of the book written by Daphne Oz with a forward by her father and daytime TV host, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post giving your tip for staying healthy. Be sure to also check out our exclusive interview with Daphne.

In The Dorm Room Diet, Daphne writes about “Danger Zones” or situations where you may be tempted to eat unhealthy high sugar, high fat and low nutrient foods like while watching TV, studying or working late at night or in social situations. One way to counter this is by eating berries during these times.

“They take time to eat, come in small pieces, and are sweet enough to curb sugar cravings,” Daphne writes.

Don’t forget to buy berries organic whenever possible, as some of them, like blueberries and strawberries, are on the dirty dozen list of produce that contains the highest levels of pesticide residue.

And that’s the final tip of the day. What’s yours?

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s tip in the Dorm Room Diet book giveaway is about reducing your impact on the planet by purchasing locally grown food. Fresher food is less subject to factors involved in traveling longer distances like light and temperature that may impact nutrient levels once it finally reaches your plate.

The easiest way to be a locavore is to buy food from the grocery store that was grown and traveled <100 miles to the shelves. But The Dorm Room Diet gives more tips for getting food closer to the source:

• Visit the local farmer’s market

• Set up home or dorm delivery of produce from a local farm

• Join a co-op

• Establish a Farm-To-School program

• Go to a local farm and help plant and harvest greens yourself

To enter to win The Dorm Room Diet, leave a comment on this post giving your tip for staying healthy. Full contest rules can be found here.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s tip in the Dorm Room Diet giveaway is all about budgeting. Sure, you need the right foods for energy, but it’s also about managing time and figuring out how to store you food in a tiny dorm room, cubicle or even in a studio apartment. It’s not just money that’s a part of the “budget.”

The Dorm Room Diet recommends keeping healthy, grab-and-go snacks handy for busy times and keeping small, nutrient packed foods like nuts, dried fruit, popcorn and peanut butter handy that won’t take up a lot of space in a refrigerator at work or home. Also, if you’re a college student, The Dorm Room Diet, advises checking out the cafeteria versus the restaurants on the off campus strip. You’re bound to find at least something your ethics and tastes are compatible with and it’s probably already paid for (by mom or dad, student loans, scholarships) as part of a campus meal plan.

To enter to win “The Dorm Room Diet” leave a comment on this post giving your tip for staying healthy. Full contest rules can be found here.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

As part of our “Dorm Room Diet” book giveaway where we bring you a different tip from the book every day, today’s tip is about breakfast.

Every vegetarian should know how to whip up a simple breakfast tofu scramble, but that doesn’t mean they’ll remember to eat it in the 7:30 AM rush in between walking the dog, checking email and work/class. While it’s tempting to grab a sugary muffin or just swish juice down, Daphne Oz suggest you eat your biggest meal for breakfast in “The Dorm Room Diet.”

“I always try to live by the adage: breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper,” she writes, adding this method gives you more time to use the calories.

Shouldn’t be hard to do, considering the several breakfast recipes are included in her book like a breakfast sandwich with black beans and salsa on whole grain bread.

To enter to win, The Dorm Room Diet, simply leave a comment giving your tip for staying healthy.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s tip for becoming healthier in our giveaway of  Daphne Oz‘s “Dorm Room Diet” book involves improving the quality of food at your college cafeteria.

When the factory farmed McBurger restaurants and imported produce salad bars outnumber whole wheat pasta and local veggies in the cafe court, don’t fret. Daphne says concerned students can help by encouraging their schools to start a Farm To School Program. These programs get schools to invest a portion of their cafeteria supplies from local producers. The result is a better grade for food, people and the environment as less fuel is used to transport food, local farmers get more business and fresher selections become available.

To enter to win a copy of The Dorm Room Diet, simply leave a comment on this post giving us your tip for staying healthy.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

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As promised, we’re giving away one free copy of the The Dorm Room Diet by Daphne Oz. Daphne’s book is full of tips to help you stay healthy while being kind to the Earth and the animals. Every day for the next week, we’ll bring you a tip from Daphne’s book. For a chance to win the book, you have to give a tip back.

To enter, simply leave a comment on a post with a tip letting us know how you stay healthy, like what you eat or how you exercise. It can even be a spiritual or charitable practice you do that leaves you feeling great physically and psychologically.

You can enter this today, Thursday and Friday, then we’ll be taking a break on the weekend. Next Monday, the contest starts up again and wraps up on Thursday at midnight Pacific Time. Winners will be chosen randomly and notified via email on Monday, August 23, 2010.

Only one entry per post is allowed, but you may give a tip every day for every post written with a tip. So if you’ve got seven ways to teach everyone to stay healthy, come back every day and give your advice! And now, for today’s tip:

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Good things in life are free, but the best things in life are free and vegetarian.

This week, we’re kicking off an exciting opportunity for you to receive a book full of recipes, health and nutrition tips, green advice and more! As mentioned earlier, The Dorm Room Diet has recently been revised by author Daphne Oz, who’s famous father, Dr. Mehmet Oz, can be seen on daytime TV and has even introduced a few people to vegetarianism himself.

We’re giving away one copy of The Dorm Room Diet to one lucky reader and will post an interview with Daphne tomorrow.

More information on the giveaway will be given when it starts later this week, so stay tuned!

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The Kind Diet

****THIS IS IT! TODAY’S THE LAST DAY TO ENTER TO WIN “THE KIND DIET” BY ALICIA SILVERSTONE!!!****

All this week, we’re hosting a giveaway and three of our lucky readers will receive a free copy of Alicia Silverstone’s new vegan diet and lifestyle book, The Kind Diet.

Every day until the end of the contest, we’re bringing you a few of Alicia’s thoughts on The Kind Diet, with a reminder to leave a comment to enter to win.

For the FINAL DAY OF OUR CONTEST, we’re leaving you with Alicia’s answer on why she wrote The Kind Diet.

“For the last few years, I’ve seen how my lifestyle has influenced the people around me, so I decided to take my message even wider by writing THE KIND DIET. I want to inspire people to use the tools in this book to look and feel their best and to free them from dieting and discomfort. I know there are tons of folks who feel like they’re in a physical and mental rut and are looking for a solution, but don’t know where to begin. I know that by incorporating even just some of the suggestions in this book, readers will find themselves looking and feeling better than they ever thought possible.”

Enter to win The Kind Diet today.

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