Food & Nutrition Archive
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* Diet and Nutrition
- 70 and beyond: what you need to eat
- A history of American eating habits
- Are three squares a day the only healthy way?
- Avoiding gas-producing foods
- Balanced diet
- Bring back breakfast
- Cueing into your eating patterns
- Deciphering the Nutrition Facts label: do you really know what you are eating?
- Diet detectives: spotting sensible diets
- Diet shakes and meal replacements: can they really help you lose weight?
- Do raw food (living food) diets promote good health?
- Eat well, exercise well, be well: dietary and fitness guidelines
- Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
- Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables
- Eating a diet moderate in protein-rich foods
- Eating during pregnancy: a labor for Dad, too
- Eating healthfully on a tight budget
- Eating healthy: Tips to make it easier
- Eating well—and safely—during your golden years
- Eating with color
- Empty plates for empty nesters
- Food cravings
- Fast food salads: making smart and healthy choices
- Fruit and vegetable servings for children
- Gluten-free MyPlate
- Health nuts: eating nuts may be healthful
- Healthful eating for teens on the run
- Healthful snacking: is it possible?
- Healthy drinks for kids
- Healthy snacks to prevent tooth decay in kids
- Improving nutrition in the elderly
- Is there such a thing as "junk food"?
- Just how much food is on that plate? Understanding portion control
- Kids and cholesterol: keeping cholesterol levels under control
- Limiting potassium in your diet
- Limiting your intake of sugar
- MyPlate for kids: food guidelines for children
- New ways to be "creative" in the kitchen
- Nutrition and menopause
- Supermarket savvy
- The best diet for you
- The DASH diet
- The ketogenic diet and epilepsy: does it really work?
- The Mediterranean diet and good health
- The truth behind nutrition folklore
- True or false: eating at night will make you gain weight
- Understanding what's on MyPlate
- Vegetarian diet for kids: a healthy choice?
- Vegetarian myths
- What is the glycemic index?
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* Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements
- Biotin
- Calcium
- Choline
- Chromium
- Copper
- Folate
- Iodine
- Iron
- Magnesium
- Niacin (vitamin B3)
- Phosphorus
- Potassium
- Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
- Selenium
- Sodium
- Thiamin (vitamin B1)
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin K
- Zinc
- Antioxidants and your health
- Deciphering the nutrition facts label: do you really know what you are eating?
- Dietary reference intakes
- Eat a diet rich in calcium
- Eat a diet rich in vitamin D
- Folic acid: a "family values" vitamin
- Good food sources of folate
- Good food sources of iron
- Good food sources of vitamin B6
- Good food sources of vitamin B12
- Limiting potassium in your diet
- Omega-3 fatty acids and mental health
- Ordinary foods, extraordinary health claims
- Soy: can you get too much of a good thing?
- Supplements: to take or not to take, that is the question
- Are there any benefits of fish fat?
- The benefits, risks, and uncertainties of soy for lower blood cholesterol
- Vitamin D: let the sun shine?
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* Heart Healthy Diet
- Balanced diet
- Cholesterol and your heart: where do we stand?
- Decreasing your triglycerides through dietary changes
- Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
- How much do you know about triglycerides?
- Optimizing your triglycerides
- Trans fats: the bad fat in town
Getting to the Heart of a Healthful Diet
- Choose fats with 2 grams or less saturated fat per serving
- Eat a variety of grain products, including whole grains
- Eat less than 6 grams of salt
- Empty-calorie foods
- Fats
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet
- Have no more than one alcoholic drink per day if you're a woman and no more than two if you're a man
- Include fat-free and low-fat milk products, fish, legumes (beans), skinless poultry, and lean meats
- Limit foods high in saturated fat, trans fat, and/or cholesterol
- Limit your intake of foods high in calories or low in nutrition
- Protein-rich foods
- Sodium
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* Weight Loss
- Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
- Balanced diet
- Diet shakes and meal replacements: can they really help you lose weight?
- Ghrelin, the hunger hormone: could it be the key to weight loss?
- Internet-based weight loss services: how effective are they?
- Real-life stories of weight loss
- The skinny on sucralose
- True or false: eating at night will make you gain weight
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* Special Foods and Special Occasions
- All about shellfish
- Apples: the not-so-forbidden fruit
- Avocado: the misunderstood fruit
- Bulking up on fiber
- Chocolate: food of the gods
- Could you be allergic to sulfites?
- Decreasing your caffeine intake
- Demystifying oil
- Dining with an International Flair: Eating Healthy in Greek, Indian, and Japanese Restaurants
- Eating healthy while on a cruise
- Eating out: good for the tastebuds, bad for the waistline
- Eating whole grains
- Eggs by design
- Garden vegetables: more healthful than vegetables from the market?
- Halloween: let them eat candy—but how much?
- Health nuts: eating nuts may be healthful
- Holiday eating: it's about enjoyment, not guilt
- Holiday food: drafting a winning lineup
- How far has your food travelled?
- "Milk"—not just from cows
- On the road again…but with healthful snacks
- Ordinary foods, extraordinary health claims
- Say cheese!
- Summertime…and the grilling is easy
- Tater talk
- Thanksgiving, the sequel: making the most of leftovers
- The great pumpkin
- The highs and lows of caffeine
- The tidal wave of bottled water
- The papaya: a little taste of paradise
- The whole scoop on whole versus refined grains
- True or false: an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- True or false: eating turkey makes you drowsy
- Yogurt: the original health food
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* Conditions and Treatments
- A family's guide to tackling eating disorders
- Anemia: how food and vitamins can help
- Cholesterol and your heart: where do we stand?
- Colon cleansing: don't be misled by the claims
- Diabetes and alcohol: caution when mixing
- Do you have prehypertension?
- Eating disorders: when food and weight take control
- Eating well while receiving chemotherapy
- Food allergy—it's nothing to sneeze at
- Gluten-free MyPlate
- How to beat a hangover
- How much do you know about triglycerides?
- Nutrition and menopause
- Preventing food allergies in infants and children
- The benefits, risks, and uncertainties of soy for lower blood cholesterol
- The importance of counting carbs if you have diabetes
- The ketogenic diet and epilepsy: does it really work?
- Understanding binge eating disorder in men
- What does it really mean to have prediabetes?
- What to eat if you have diabetes
- When food doesn't taste good
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* Food Safety
- Preventing foodborne illnesses from the farm to the fridge
- Acrylamide: snack food cancer risk or not?
- Added hormones in meat and dairy
- Food additives: friends or foes?
- Food expiration dates: what do they really mean?
- Food safety
- Grillmasters get a food safety lesson
- Guidelines for organic products: what do they mean for you?
- Irradiated food: an overview
- Keep your holiday foods safe
- Organically grown food: is it really a better choice?
- Organic foods: to buy or not to buy?
- Preparing for an emergency: a disaster supply kit
- Safe microwave cooking
- The growing problem of food poisoning: is irradiation the answer?
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