's roughest neighborhoods, and helped teach them about the importance of staying in school and making healthy choices.

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Parents play a key role in both making healthy choices for children now and teaching children to make healthy choices for themselves.

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These items help Lee comply with the federal government's nutrition guidelines at least on paper, but what's clear is that many children are not making healthy choices.

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The idea is to "nudge" (Cass Sunstein's catchword) consumers into making healthy choices by either restricting unhealthy ones (Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on large sodas), mandating disclosure of information (the ObamaCare provision mandating calorie counts on chain-restaurant menus), or mandating the manner of disclosure (for example, requiring a product advertised as "90% fat-free" to be reciprocally labeled "10% fat").

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Making the right pricing choices is a lot like making the right lifestyle choices providing fuel for a healthy mind and body.

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Whatever your current credit score is, you can help keep it healthy by making appropriate financial choices and by taking the time to check your credit report regularly.

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Healthy seniors drive the success of the program, making more choices and lower prices available to duals as well.

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You may not agree, but I think that if you guys are eating healthy things on a regular basis, you start to like them, and you start making choices about a snack so that instead of a snack being a piece of candy, a good snack could be a nice bunch of grapes.

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