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Natural Sweeteners: A Closer Look
After the sweetener chart went live, many of you wrote to ask about a non-chemical approach to sweetening foods and drinks. Today I have some answers for you, with a closer look at natural sweeteners...
Cut Down on Sugar: A Strategy Guide
Are you looking for new ways to help your clients reduce their added sugar intake? Thanks to some reader requests, there's now a free handout and strategy guide that offer great tips for cutting back on added sugars...
More Ways to Reduce Sugar Consumption
The sweetener information celebration continues with a few more strategies for reducing the added sugars in your life! Share this article and handout with your clients and let me know what you think...
GMOs: A Health Distractor?
Do your clients ever ask you about GMOs? This hot-button issue has been dominating the media lately, and after chatting with one of our readers, I thought it was high time to make a handout that featured the facts.
GMO Infographic
Want to help your clients get the facts about GMOs? Here's a handy infographic, based on the latest scientific research and comprehensive data reviews...
September 2015
September is a month of fantastic health holidays! Get all the resources you need in order to look your very best, right now. Everything is all in one post...
Diabetes and Weight Loss
There’s good news for overweight people with type 2 diabetes: small amounts of weight loss can benefit you in many ways! In fact, losing weight soon after diagnosis may offer better blood pressure and glucose control years down the line, even if the weight is regained.
Sugary Drinks and Diabetes
Sugary sodas raise your blood sugar and provide extra calories with no nutritional benefit. That’s not healthy for anyone, but if you have diabetes, it’s vital to find other ways to quench your thirst.
Healthful Shopping Activity Ideas
Are your clients confident in the grocery store? Having healthful food around the house makes it much easier to choose nutritious foods, so managing a shopping trip well is key to good health. Here are some fun ideas to help your clients get shopping savvy!
Try Seafood Chowder!
This seafood chowder is simple, hearty, and healthful. What's not to love?
Do Vitamin D Supplements Improve Bone Health?
The researchers concluded that high-dose Vitamin D3 therapy did modestly increase calcium absorption, but the effect was small and it did not translate into measurable beneficial effects on BMD, muscle function, muscle mass, or falls or fractures after one year.
Celebrate Chicken Month and Rice Month!
September is both Rice Month and Chicken Month! Celebrate with this fantastic dish that offers rice and chicken the spotlight! You can even use brown rice in the recipe for Whole Grains Month too!
Brain-Healthy Foods
For the most part, the foods you eat to help your heart also nourish your noggin. People with heart disease are more likely to have cognitive impairments and dementia. That’s not surprising since both the heart and the brain require healthy blood vessels free of atherosclerosis...
Shopping Beyond the Perimeter
For years, dietitians and health professionals have been promoting one method of food shopping — “shopping the perimeter” — as a way to help you choose foods that support a healthy diet. These foods are certainly the mainstays of a healthy diet, but if you are only shopping the periphery, you are missing out on some key nutrients in items that reside within the middle of the store. Let’s check out some of these nutrient-dense gems that you will find beyond the perimeter.
Fact Sheet: Honey
What do you know about honey? Get the results of the latest scientific research and find out whether honey really is a miracle food...
New Use for Honey: Barbecue Sauce
Here's a great way to use honey in moderation -- make it part of this delicious barbecue sauce!
Free Chart: Diabetes Management for Best Health
Diabetes management is so much more than measuring blood glucose. Do your clients know how to keep track of the various required tests and routine activities that accompany a diabetes diagnosis? Check out today's post for a free chart that can help your clients manage their diabetes...
A Closer Look at the ADA's General Targets for Diabetics
Let's talk about the American Diabetes Association. What is it? How can it be useful to your clients? And what has changed about its 2015 Guidelines for People with Diabetes? Why? Get all the answers (and a new handout!) in today's post...
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