This first chapter addresses 3 of the 5 new dietary guidelines from the 2015-2020 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Learn about healthy eating patterns, the quantitative limits for certain food elements, and much more, all in today's post!

There are lots of reasons to follow the healthy eating pattern strategies laid out by the latest edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. To start, let's take a closer look at the science behind these recommendations...

Judy Doherty, PC II and founder of Food and Health Communications, Inc has just launched an all-new educational materials store. This new site, which remains under the name Nutrition Education Store, is loaded with the latest science-based and engaging resources. The store is now hosted by Shopify and boasts a ton of features that will make the lives of nutrition and health educators easier.

It's that special time again: time to shine a spotlight on one of my favorite ingredients! This week I want to talk about silken tofu, and today we'll cover what it is, where to find it, how to cook with it, and which of my favorite recipes feature it...

How will you help your clients turn their resolutions into solutions? MyPlate offeres 2 key tips: focus on long-term solutions instead of quick fixes, and encourage self-assessment resources. Let's take a look at each one in more detail, shall we?

MyPlate recommends 2 strategies for successful improvements to eating habits and lifestyle: focusing on long-term solutions instead of quick fixes, and self-assessing periodically. The post Resolutions into Solutions provided an introduction to these approaches, and now we'd like to go into more depth about those self-assessment resources...

Here's a quiz that you can use to show your clients how important it is to research calorie and nutrition information before they choose a meal in a restaurant. Some of the answers may surprise you!

Happy Heart Month! Here are all the resources you need to help your clients make this February the best month yet!

This tasty Mediterranean dish makes a great dinner!

While more research is needed to clarify the relative risk of various components of a typical modern Western diet for promoting excessive calorie intake, insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome, and NAFLD it is likely that replacing refined sugars high in fructose with whole grains and starchy vegetables and cutting back on foods high in saturated fat and trans fat and refined grains is likely to improve insulin sensitivity and curtail the accumulation of fat in the abdominal area and also in the liver.

This tasty side dish goes well with any meal. It’s so easy and delicious that you will want to serve it often!

Just because nutrients are present in your food doesn’t mean that your body is actually using them. Some nutrients, antioxidants and phytochemicals are destroyed during cooking or by air or light during storage. Others need the help of your gut bacteria or other nutrients to be activated or to be absorbed. Use these tips to get the most health-boosters from your food...

From kids to kids at heart, everyone can enjoy a delicious and nutritious smoothie to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption.

All fat is composed of different fatty acids. There are saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated types. The kinds of fatty acids consumed are more important in influencing health than the total amount of fat in the diet. Animal fats tend to have a higher proportion of saturated fatty acids, and plant foods tend to have a higher proportion of monounsaturated and/or polyunsaturated fatty acids.

There is a difference between natural and refined sugar. Reducing your consumption of added sugar can be done by making small changes; choosing unsweetened beverages like water and teas in place of sweetened beverages, and reading food labels in order to determine the amount of added sugars in your foods is a good start.

On January 7, 2016, the latest edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans was released. How will you use this information to help your clients live healthy and balanced lives?

The 2015-2020 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans is finally here and Lynn Grieger, RDN, CDE, CPT, CWC, has written a brand-new post to walk us through the most important parts...

A contest is a perfect way to boost motivation, increase participant engagement, and improve information retention. That's why I want to share an excerpt from my favorite fruit and vegetable resource, the Fruit and Vegetable Challenge Program. Check out the great new handouts and fantastic research...

The contest fun continues with another handout about yellow and orange fruits and vegetables...