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Are you eating your daily rainbow?

It can be challenging to eat healthy. Food groups keep changing, fast food is quick and convenient, advertising is confusing and our daily lives are moving faster. But if there’s one thing we need to do every day, it’s eating five or more fruits and vegetables – and in a rainbow of colors. Are you eating the recommended five colors a day?

A 30-year journey to successful aging

By Oasis Institute Webmaster|2012-06-19T00:00:00-05:00June 19th, 2012|Lifelong learning|

It was the fall of 1982. After spending the day touring senior centers, Marylen Mann told St. Louis Commissioner of Aging, Father Lucius Cervantes, “We can do better for the elderly.” And with that, Oasis was founded. Little did anyone know that Marylen, then in her 40s, was ahead of her time. For St. Louis and eventually, some 40 cities across the nation, the birth of Oasis would change how everyone thought of older adults ...