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Brighten Up Your Next Salad
This salad goes well with grilled fish or chicken or even a pasta dinner.
Kids, Sleep, and Obesity
From toddlers to teens, when kids don’t get enough sleep, they’re cranky, whiny, and difficult. Of course, adequate sleep has many other benefits for children. Chief among these is the role that sleep plays in obesity prevention...
Simple Yet Fancy Dinner
This beautiful dinner is delicious any time of year!
Nutrition 101: Fiber
Dietary fiber is a type of carbohydrate that is not digestible by the body. Although it’s not digested, it has a number of jobs in our body...
Does Being Overweight Decrease the Risk of Dying?
There is a big difference between losing weight unintentionally due to faster aging and/or illness and intentionally losing excess adiposity by adopting a healthier diet and exercise program.
Taking On Athletic Challenges as an Adult
“…what stops most of us from achieving our dreams – as athletes and as people – are the confines of our imagination. As long as we restrict ourselves by our imaginations, we forever bind ourselves to our past and blind ourselves to our future.” -- John “The Penguin” Bingham
A Guide to Spectacular and Professional Plate Presentations
Help your clients make healthier choices by making nutritious foods more appealing in your displays and cooking demonstrations...
Handout: 5 Tips for a Cancer-Fighting Eating Pattern
Today I want to feature one of the top handouts from the August edition of the member-exclusive Communicating Food for Health Newsletter. It's so engaging that I simply couldn't resist sharing it with everyone!
Nutrition News: Kids and Sports Drinks
Have you been seeing all the news about kids, sports drinks, and obesity?
Sports Drink Comparison Chart
My team and I researched the most common sports drinks, assessing their nutrient information and compiling it into a simple comparison chart. Check out what we found!
Melon Fact Sheet
Here's a great tool to help encourage your clients to incorporate more fruit into their eating patterns: a brand-new melon fact sheet!
Shocking Sodium Statistics
It's time for another handout of the week, and this one is all about sodium!
3 Top Tips to Lower Sodium
"Americans consume too much sodium. High sodium consumption raises blood pressure, and high blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the nation’s first and third leading causes of death"
Pack Your Mindful Eating Compass On Summer Vacation
When you're on vacation, keep an eye on what I call "your mindful eating compass" – the inner sense of what and how you’re eating.
The Health Impact of Drinking Juice
How do you feel about orange juice and other 100% juice beverages? Whether you're all for them or totally against them or somewhere in between here's another perspective to consider, from James J. Kenney, PhD, FACN...
Juice Comparison Chart
Compare the nutrient profiles of these 10 top juices to determine whether any fit into a healthy and balanced eating pattern...
August 2016
Don't miss the newest handouts, recipes, and research in the August 2016 edition of the Communicating Food for Health newsletter!
Beat the Heat with This Cool Summer Meal!
This delicious chilled summer salmon dish looks so fancy but it is very easy to prepare.
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