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The 2015 Dietary Guidelines: Eating Patterns

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!

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New Way to Engage Your Clients: Set Up a Challenge!

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...

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Strategies for Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

The post Fill Half Your Plate with Fruits and Vegetables at Each Meal highlighted the importance of filling your plate with fruits and vegetables at each meal. Now we're going to discuss how to do it.

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Feeding a Teen Vegetarian in 3 Steps

As kids stake claims to their independence when it comes to eating, more tweens and teens are experimenting with vegetarian and vegan diets. Parents may be concerned that their children are undernourished when adopting these eating patterns, but they can rest easy. Kids can thrive on plant-based diets. All parents need are these 3 steps for feeding a tween or teen vegetarian…

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4 Tips for Feeding Vegetarians

Catering to the individual needs of eaters can be a difficult challenge, even for the most well-prepared cooks. When a member of the house is a vegetarian, creating meals that are both nourishing for the vegetarian and suitable for the meat-and-potatoes crowd can seem almost impossible. But, with these four tips, feeding a vegetarian in a meat-eating household is as easy as 1, 2, 3 (and 4)!

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Packed Lunches Can Pack a Nutritional Punch

August is Back-To-School Month, Kids Eat Right Month, and Sandwich Month! What better way to celebrate all these occasions than with a brand-new article about packing healthful lunches? Beth Rosen, MS, RD, CDN, has all the details...

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