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Try a Vegetarian Meal!
Try this tasty recipe for a healthful vegetarian meal!
Aromatics: Your Secret Weapon
Aromatic herbs offer a lovely way to finish soups, rice, or pasta dishes. Find new ways to help your clients use more aromatic herbs and pep up their meals in today's post!
Using Aromatics: A Guide to Your Favorite Herbs
How should you store your aromatics in order to preserve their freshness and get the most use out of them? Find out in this special premium post!
A New Spin on Whole Grains
The sweet raisins and crunchy almonds combine to enrich this dish with lots of different flavors and textures.
Pudding or Pie? Why Not Both?
This tasty dessert is rich in protein and calcium. It also has way more fiber and nutrients than most typical desserts.
Delicious Healthy Meals: Stir Fry on the Grill
Love the speed and ease of a stir fry but hate the cleanup? Have you ever considered making that meal on a grill? I know it sounds crazy, but I tried stir-frying my farmers’ market finds on the grill, and it was so tasty and simple that I may never go back to my stove...
How To Stir-Fry
This members-only guide to healthful stir-fries is a perfect resource for health educators and their clients.
Teriyaki Grilled Salmon
This exclusive members-only post is all about the basics of grilling fish. It's got great photos, a new PDF handout, and fantastic grilling tips...
Strawberry Sensation!
I've been studying 3-star desserts and presentations lately, and it has been super inspiring! Applying the same visual principles to healthful and balanced foods can make them look even more appealing. Plus, it's fun to put together a pretty plate of food. Here's my latest creation -- the Strawberry Snack Plate.
Gorgeous Fruit Desserts
Remember back in the day when we posted The Most Beautiful Salads? Or how about that recipe for Raspberry Beet Cheesecake? We got such a wonderful response from all of you for both posts that today we'd like to bring you a new riff on old favorites: a quick guide to beautiful and healthful fruit desserts.
June 2015
June is a great month for dietitians and other health educators. As Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month, Dairy Month, Men's Health Month, Safety Month, and more, June offers lots of great ways to introduce vital topics. Which will you discuss with your clients?There are tons of resources in the June edition of Communicating Food for Health -- check it out today!
Whole Food Diet for Heart Health
Choose a whole foods approach that pays equal attention to the types of foods consumed as well as types of foods to exclude.
A New Spin on Beets
Try this new spin on beets today!
Fruit and Diabetes
People with diabetes shouldn?t be afraid of fruit! Fruit is packed with vitamins and minerals, including antioxidants. It also contains dietary fiber, which fills you up and helps with blood sugar control. Fruit?s sweet taste makes it a natural and healthful dessert too.
Enjoy Summer Produce!
This amazing salad was inspired by a trip to Berkeley Bowl, where fresh produce spans the aisle as far as the eye can see. Use it in your Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month celebrations!
Are Artificial Sweeteners Fattening?
Whether or not nonnutritive sweeteners have an impact on calorie intake and body weight has been debated for many years.
The Skinny on Protein
High-protein, low-carbohydrate diets are back in the spotlight, thanks to the Paleo, South Beach and Atkins trends. While protein is a necessary nutrient for the body in order to build lean muscle, synthesize hormones, grow hair and nails, and maintain organs, information about how much protein we really need and in what form seems to be misleading and/or lacking. Here?s the skinny?
Dietary Consistency
Have you fallen into the all-or-nothing trap where you eat perfectly one day and abandon healthful eating the next? Is a vacation or holiday a happy excuse to overindulge in foods that you?ve labeled as taboo?
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