Now that we’ve got you thinking about good nutrition, we want to talk about good fats. Yes, “good” fats. There really are some fats your body and mind need to stay healthy.

Whether it’s the olive oil that’s essential to the Mediterranean diet or avocados (that even the Mayo Clinic recommends), healthy fats are part of good nutrition. Of course, this doesn’t mean you need to — or should — have avocado toast every morning for breakfast! But in moderation, good fats can improve or prevent certain health conditions.

Mindful of Mental Health Webinar

Hopefully you were able to join us Jan. 23 for the first of our 2024 Mindful of Mental Health Webinars. Our topic was The Connection Between Nutrition and Mental Health where we explored how to make nutrition part of a holistic approach to treating stress, anxiety and depression. If you missed the live webinar, click here to listen to the recording. This webinar gives ideas about how to incorporate good fats into your menu.

PATH Healthy Habits Challenge

Join PATH’s Healthy Habits Challenge, Fats for Good, Jan. 29 to Feb. 4. to begin creating a habit of eating at least one serving of good fats each day. For one week, your goal is to eat a serving of good fats, five out of seven days. If you meet that goal, you’ll improve your fat intake, “win” the challenge and earn 200 PATH points!

PATH Activities and Resources

Looking for more ways to bring good nutrition to the forefront of your PATH efforts? Check out Eating Healthy Journeys, creating personal healthy-habit challenges and the My Nutrition Guide to keep healthy eating front and center!

Eating Healthy Journeys are under Journeys in the Health drop-down menu on PATH. Scroll down the list to the Eating Healthy category, and you can choose one of the listed Journeys to try.

You’ll also find the Nutrition Guide under the Health drop-down menu. The guide helps you decide which actions you’d like to track — weight, daily calorie intake or your new healthy habit(s).

From the Social drop-down menu on PATH, you can click Challenges and create your own Personal Healthy Habit Challenge. When the page displays, click Create and scroll to the Personal Healthy Habit Challenges section to design your own.

Let’s learn something new about nutrition every month this year and use PATH’s activities and resources to incorporate it into our lives!