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Cancer Control Month: 3 Ways to Reduce Your Risk
In honor of Cancer Control Month, we are cracking the vault and offering a sneak peek at exclusive member content. The handout featured below comes straight from the April 2015 edition of Communicating Food for Health and it's all about reducing your risk of cancer...
Reader Request: Burning Off Beverage Calories
After researching the most common sugary drinks and their typical servings sizes, I used my handy-dandy exercise calculator to find out how much work it would take to burn off the calories in popular beverages. I turned what I found into a new handout, which you can download for free today!
May 2015
May is a busy month! Get the latest resources for Strawberry Month, Salad Month, High Blood Pressure Education Month, Women's Health Care Month, and more! It's all here in the May edition of Communicating Food for Health
Make Dessert Delightful!
This shortcake is amazingly simple. It uses a small slice of cake along with a lot of fresh fruit and just a little whipping cream. It is delightful, not sinful!!
Women and Iron: What You Need to Know
Get everything you need to know about iron in one handy post!
Beverage Calorie and Exercise Presentation
With clearer messages about the health impact and calorie content of drinks, people will often make more balanced choices. They just need to know more about what they?re drinking.
The Skinny on Sugar
Research synonyms for sugar and you find ?sweet? and ?dearest.? But ask most fad diet enthusiasts, and they will associate sugar with ?evil,? ?toxin,? and even ?poison.? Too much of anything is no good, but vilifying this carbohydrate without distinguishing between natural sugar and refined sugar has gone too far. Here?s the real skinny on sugar.
5 Common Energy Zappers
Avoid these 5 common traps that zap your energy and end up making you feel tired and out of sorts.
Spritz Up Your Salad!
This bright and peppy salad is loaded with flavor! Try it out and see for yourself!
Low Vitamin K2 Linked to Calcified Arteries and Weak Bones
What role does vitamin K play in heart and bone health? Are Americans getting enough of it? Find out in the latest research review from James J. Kenney, ?PhD, FACN...
Plant Messages from the DGAC
The 2015 report by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) features a new section on sustainable diets, a new review of nutrients of concern, and more! Check out Lynn Grieger's review of the plant messages from the DGAC right here!
How to Make a Nutrition Handout
Want to make an engaging and memorable nutrition handout? There's no need to re-invent the wheel -- we've been testing and tweaking our handout templates for years. Put our research to work for you today, with this free handout template!
Portion Control: Deconstructed
Looking for a new way to make portion control appealing to your clients? Try deconstructing dishes!
Reminder: Public Comment Period for the Dietary Guidelines Closes Soon
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has offered its report for public comment and review, and all comments must be made before midnight EDT on May 8, 2014. That deadline is fast approaching, so get links to the report and the comment form today! It's all in this post...
Cracking the Vault: Nutrition Science or Pseudoscience?
We're cracking the vault to bring you one of my favorite articles from James J. Kenney, PhD, FACN. In this exclusive peek at members-only content, Dr. Jay will walk you through how pseudoscience can obscure important health lessons and confuse consumers.
What Do You Know About Knives?
What do you know about knives? This free infographic offers a great introduction to choosing the right knife for the job.
Take Control of Your Cholesterol Levels
It's time to help your clients take control of their cholesterol levels. Let's get right down to it!
Cheese 101
It all started as a reader request...
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