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Learn How to Read a Nutrition Label

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If you've done much grocery shopping, you've probably noticed that most food items have a nutrition label which offers an array of information. It's designed to be easily understandable, but the sheer number of different elements on the label can make reading it a little daunting. These helpful tips from the Food and Drug Administration […]

Simple Recipes for College Students

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For many students, part of the college experience involves learning to live on your own. Doing laundry, grocery shopping, and cooking meals are all new chores, and they can seem overwhelming when combined with your stressful school workload. These simple recipes for college students can help you manage your meals to free up time for studying […]

Spice Up Your Diet With These DASH Recipes

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Any dieter will agree that healthy foods aren’t always the most exciting. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (or DASH) eating plan aims to incorporate convenient, tasty meals into your healthy diet, using only accessible ingredients that you likely have around the house. This NIH website offers a number of DASH-friendly recipes for every day […]

Interesting Trivia from Outdated USDA Food Guides

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Over the years, the USDA has compiled a large number of informational food guides to advise people on everything from counting calories to managing diabetes. While some of the advice remains with us today, other tips have been superseded by new discoveries and better nutrition knowledge. Here are some interesting tips from past USDA food […]

Learn to Eat More Healthfully with the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines

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Want to eat more healthfully? Even if you're really motivated to improve your diet, it can be tough to know where to start. As you've probably noticed, there's a lot of conflicting advice available about what dietary choices are most conducive to good health. But the USDA's Dietary Guidelines for Americans presents a standard and […]

Find Recipes Online with These Websites

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These days, finding and sharing recipes has become an online activity, with dozens of websites full of user submitted meals for lunch, dinner and even dessert. These helpful websites will help you with your own family’s meal planning, as well as connect you to other home chefs to trade tips and tricks. All Recipes All […]

Eat Well For a Healthy Heart

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Heart disease is dangerous, but a few simple changes to your diet can vastly improve your heart's health. Together with proper exercise and other simple lifestyle changes, eating more healthfully can mitigate your risk of developing disease. The FDA's website offers some useful tips on eating better for a healthy heart, including advice like: Eat […]

The Ins-and-Outs of the Raw Food Diet

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It seems that almost every day a new, trendy diet enters into the mainstream, each one promising unmatched weight-loss and countless health benefits. One diet that has been around for a while now (which is always promising) is the raw food diet. The core elements of the raw food diet are simple: cooking food over […]

Cooking Indian Food… At Home!

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To a first time cook, Indian cuisine can seem complex and intimidating. However, learning just a few basic principles will help make the enterprise of cooking Indian food easier. Here are a few tips Select a good cookbook Among the many Indian cookbooks available, Julie Sahni and Madhur Jaffrey have produced some of the best. […]

Here’s How to Read a Nutrition Label:

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A little information can be empowering; too much, less so. And one of the aims of the Nutrition Fact panel you'll find on almost every food item you can buy is to present a whole host of information about food in a clear and intelligible way. In some ways, the Nutrition Facts panel is a […]