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Nutrition ?Insurance? Doesn?t Pay
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently reviewed three controlled clinical trials of the impact of taking a multivitamin supplement and also another 24 trials of single or paired vitamins versus a placebo.
Truffles: Wild and Delicate Fungi
Try a New Dip!
Diabetes and Heart Health
Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
Is the link between saturated fat and heart disease really as tenuous as some bloggers and journalists believe? Get Dr. James J. Kenney's take on the sources and the facts...
Salsa Month Recipe: Salsa Baked Fish
It's Salsa Month! To celebrate, we're sharing some of our very favorite ways to use salsa. Today's recipe is light, nutritious, and totally delicious.
Celebrate Mother's Day with Good Health
Mother's Day is just around the corner! How will you celebrate the mothers in your life? May we make a humble suggestion? Try salad!
Cracking the Vault: Multivitamin Use and Cardiovascular Disease
Get a sneak peek into the exclusive Communicating Food for Health Member Library. This week, we're taking a closer look at vitamin supplements. Can they really make a difference in heart health? James J. Kenney, PhD, FACN, has more.
Apple Crisps
Here is a delicious way to serve candied apple slices as a garnish for your next masterpiece dessert or as the dessert itself.
Hot Recipe: Zucchini Squash Sauté
It's a lot easier to eat healthfully when you can actually enjoy what you're eating. Good food shouldn't taste like punishment. There are lots of tasty and healthful options out there -- the key is finding them. Here at Food and Health, we hope to do our part by introducing you to some of our very favorite recipes.
Salad Tulips
Use any cup-shaped lettuce leaf. The ones in our photos come from heads of radicchio and Boston Bibb lettuce. Both of these lettuce heads can be shredded or sliced to make a tossed salad when you are done using their outer leaves as tulip petals.
Chocolate Pears
Most of the time pears are poached in wine or liqueur. But you can poach them in a light chocolate syrup. We served ours with a light sprinkling of real chocolate shavings and a tiny amount of chocolate syrup.
The Importance of Side Dishes to Balanced Eating
Side dishes are awesome. Most people don't appreciate these nutrient workhorses of healthful meals, but the right side dish actually involves very little extra prep work for a serious health reward. Of course, choosing the right side dish makes all the difference.
Resistant Starch: A Different Kind of Fiber
Have you ever heard of resistant starch? Though starchy foods in general have a bad name, resistant starch actually has surprising health benefits. Learn how it affects your health today!
May 2014
Restaurant Problems
Choosing a Plant-Based Diet: Part One
A Fun Way to Eat More Vegetables
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