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A Vegetable Diet Saves Lives
Nutrition fact: A fruit and vegetable diet provides extensive health benefits. A diet rich in fruit, grains and vegetables may prevent stroke, heart attack, and cancer.
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Diabetes Food Pyramid Guidelines
To ensure a healthy diet, one method for meal planning people with diabetes can use is the American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Food Pyramid.
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Diabetes Food Pyramid
Adjustment to the daily diet through the use of the diabetes food pyramid can help control high blood sugar levels in people with diabetes.
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Going Meatless
Meatless Monday is a cool Web site and a great concept -- to get people to go without meat one day a week.
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MyPyramid Guidelines for Healthy Eating
The FDA recently revamped their dietary guidelines with a revised visual aide as well. There has been some confusion with how to follow it, however.
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New Food Pyramid Is Aimed at Kids
The government's new food pyramid is aimed at getting children to eat healthy while serving as a tool for parents in the fight against childhood obesity.
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Using MyPyramid With Kids
MyPyramid is the new food guide pyramid developed by the United States Department of Agriculture. The pyramid has a new look and a new website with information for kids.
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Vegetables May Help Respiratory Problems
Broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables as part of healthy diet may help breathing problems and fight diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis and cancers.
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Vegetarian Food Guides
Forget trying to adapt the regular food guides to a vegetarian or vegan diet. Use one of these specialized plans to achieve good nutrition for the whole family.
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Alternative Health Education
Food and nutrition resources for nutrition lesson plans, alternatives to the food pyramid, and holistic health education guidelines for homeschoolers.
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Building Your Own Diet Plan
Sometimes you have to customize things to fit your specific needs; your weight loss plan will work much better for you if it's designed by and for you.
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Diets: Do they really work?
Discussion of America's overweight epidemic, fad diets and solutions to the problem.
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Easy Nutrition Guide
It is not always easy to balance one's diet to maximize health, and many people do not know what kinds of vitamins and minerals are contained in the food they consume.
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Healthyful Diet Tips
I learned a lot about portion size, for example, by studying the DASH diet. Here's a sample of what I eat on a daily basis:
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Maintain Healthy Eating On a Tight Budget
A spike in the cost of food over the past couple of years has been straining, squeezing, and imploding many a wallet in the grocery store.
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No Bones About It: The Making of a Vegetarian
This article details one woman's introduction to the vegetarian lifestyle.It also takes a look at some of the reasons for deciding to avoid meat.
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Pyramid Power!
How to use the food pyramid for a balanced diet
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Review Fix-It and Enjoy-It Healthy Cookbook
In today's declining economy, eating out is becoming more of a rarity. Even those who don't cook as a a rule are learning the basics.
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The Diet Phenomenon of Superfoods
The recent trend of superfoods has changed the way food is marketed. Both common and exotic foods are benefiting in sales and popularity from the superfood label.
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Vegan dieting: The next big thing?
Information on the vegan diet and how to get started.
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Vegetable Juice Helps Metabolic Syndrome
A new study has shown that drinking at least one glass of low-sodium vegetable juice every day can help people with metabolic syndrome lose weight.
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Visual-Spatial Lesson Plan Ideas
Visual-Spatial learners learn best when they visualize concepts and create with imagery. Here are some suggestions on how to incorporate these into your lesson plans.
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Healthy recipes for the whole family, from La Leche League!
In honor of World Breastfeeding Week 1999, some recipes from La Leche League's books on good nutrition for nursing mothers AND the rest of the family!
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Chocolate can be a Healthy Treat
Dark Chocolate is now recognized as a healthy treat if it is consumed in moderation. The flavonoids in chocolate have been shown to have heart protective properties.
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Eating Healthy During Pregnancy
Adhering to a healthy nutritional diet is one of the most important things a woman can do for a healthy pregnancy. After all, pregnant women are now eating for two.
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Fitness Trends of the Future
Being fit is a national obsession. Americans spend billions annually on fitness programs, gizmos, gadgets, diets, and supplements.
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Getting Kids to Eat Healthfully
We've all heard the reports. Obesity among American children is on the rise. Kids need to stop drinking pop and start eating their veggies. But how? It isn't easy.
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Helping Your Child Become Active
Considering how to help your overweight child lose weight; cultivating nutritional awareness, activity and fun are some of the tools you'll need.
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How to Lose Weight Successfully
Whether a New Year's Resolution or a goal that comes at any time of year, losing weight can be a daunting task. Try these ten tips to make weight loss easier.
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Managing Inflammation with Nutrition
Proper nutrition can be an effective way to help manage some of the symptoms of sarcoidosis, including inflammation. Recent research in biochemistry, as well as the wider acceptance of the use of herbs and supplements, offer a viable alternative or adjunct to conventional medical treatment.
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Quick Fix: The simple truth about carbs.
Contrary to popular belief, carbs are not bad for you. Read on to find out why carbohydrates are essential to optimal health.
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Self-Guided Dieting
With these nutritional tips and pointers, building and sticking to your weight loss plan should be much easier.
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Starting A Healthy Diet Plan
People want to lose weight fast as possible. However, losing weight fast is the pitfall to dieting and is the reason why people gain back the weight they have lost.
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The food guide pyramid: What has it done for you lately?
Information about the USDA's food guide pyramid, why it's flawed and how to obtain all of the resommended daily allowances without ever touching a piece of meat or dairy product.
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10 Reasons to Shop at Your Local Farmer's Market
Explore the great produce in your area!
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Eating to Avoid Wrinkly Skin
When it comes to looks, a diet rich in protein, fruit and vegetables can help you keep your skin healthy and protect it against sun damage and wrinkles.
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Fast Food
My southern sisters take heed and read a calorie counter before pulling up to the drive-in window. You just may be surprised.
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Feeding Picky Children
Young children and toddlers can seem as if they never eat and may resist trying new foods. Parents can set a good example and offer alternatives to promote healthy eating
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Healthy Lifestyle Changes--Even If They Kill Me
Changing my food choices, my food portions, my eating times, and increasing daily physical activity is for my own good--yes it is. But calling it lifestyle changes or just plain ole diet and exercise makes little difference--this is hard stuff!
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Special Diets and Feeding Styles
What and how we feed our children can be controversial. Experts in the same field may not even agree. How do we make the right decision?
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Let There be Less of Us
A quick look at today's fad diets and the possible associated health hazards, a recommendation for safe weight loss and a list of tips for enhancing the taste and flavors of low fat and low calorie foods.
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Carbohydrates & Your Diet
What role should carbohydrates play in your diet?
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Combating Nutrient Deficiencies
Overeating is typical of the American culture. So then why are so many people nutrient deficient? Americans tend to over eat; unfortunately they are eating the wrong food
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Diabetes and Weight Management
Are you overweight? Is your blood sugar out of control? Find out if you are at risk for Type 2 Diabetes?
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Healthy Snacks for Preschoolers
In the daycare and preschool setting, offering children portion-controlled, nutritious snacks helps children develop healthy eating habits.
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Here's to your Heart! Cardiac health and the Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet tastes good AND keeps us healthy! Many experts are now recommending the Mediterranean way of eating, even over traditional low-fat, low-cholesterol diets.
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Nutrition and Aging
While aging starts at birth as you approach becoming a senior citizen nutritional needs change dramitically to find out about this read this article.
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Our Natural Diet
Diet myths abound, so which plan is the healthiest and most appropriate? This article looks at our original, pre-agricultural diet.
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Smallest Vertebrate
It is official. The smallest known vertebrate is a fish. It is listed in The Guinness Book of Records as being the smallest fish and for that, the smallest vertebrate.
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Why Don't Diets Work?
Why Diets Don't Work -- And What Does!
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