Category: Healthy Eating

  • Breast Cancer: Healthy diet and wellness tips to fight breast cancer |

    Breast Cancer: Healthy diet and wellness tips to fight breast cancer |

    Healthy diet and wellness tips to reverse breast cancer A breast cancer diagnosis often leads to a change in your relationship with food. Treatment related symptoms, disrupted routines and increased stress can affect your appetite, causing you to eat more or less than normal. The main question one wonders is, what should I eat while…

  • News You Can Use: Both Nutritious and Delicious

    News You Can Use: Both Nutritious and Delicious

    Parents should provide their children with healthy options for nutritious eating and model good behaviors to help them build good habits for a lifetime, UM nutritionist Shannon FitzGerald advises. iStock photo OXFORD, Miss. – Getting children to eat healthy meals can be a challenge, but a University of Mississippi nutrition expert says the task is…

  • 17 Easy Dinner and Snack Ideas for Busy Adults

    17 Easy Dinner and Snack Ideas for Busy Adults

    For obvious reasons, the school season is generally filled with activity and busyness. There’s homework to consider, activities to attend, and just the rush of the day-to-day. Lots of grown-ups are affected by academia, too. Whether you’re taking classes as an adult student or you are a parent with school-aged kids, adjusting to the rhythm…

  • Bits and Bites: Serve yourself – by building a healthy plate

    Bits and Bites: Serve yourself – by building a healthy plate

    Written by Jacob Sautter, dietic intern with Dining Services. As you start the journey that is college, one of the keys to success is maintaining a balanced and healthy diet. For some, this new and exciting chapter might be the first time you have to think, “What should I be putting on my plate each…

  • Sara was skipping meals and eating instant noodles to save money. Then she was diagnosed with malnutrition

    Sara was skipping meals and eating instant noodles to save money. Then she was diagnosed with malnutrition

    A growing number of Australians see a healthy diet as a luxury they cannot afford. Key points: Experts estimate one in four Australian families experience food insecurity But measuring the extent of the problem is difficult, because the government doesn’t regularly collect data on food security One researcher described food insecurity as a “hidden problem” in Australia Described…

  • 9 best dry fruits to add to your festive and winter diet

    9 best dry fruits to add to your festive and winter diet

    The festive season is a time of joy, celebration, and indulgence. Along with it comes an abundance of sweet treats and decadent snacks. While these delights may be tempting, they often lead to weight gain and a feeling of sluggishness. By adding the best dry fruits to your diet, you get a healthier alternative to…

  • Eating two servings of red meat increases risk of diabetes: study

    Eating two servings of red meat increases risk of diabetes: study

    This news is hard to swallow. A new study suggests that eating just two servings of red meat per week is linked to a higher risk of developing diabetes, which affects 37 million Americans. The research, published Thursday in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that increased intake of red meat — even more…

  • Produce ‘Prescription’ Grants Aim to Reduce Food Insecurity, Encourage Healthy Eating

    Produce ‘Prescription’ Grants Aim to Reduce Food Insecurity, Encourage Healthy Eating

    Cordeiro is lead investigator for the Springfield Prescription Produce Collaborative, the academic-community research team that received one of the grants. The Springfield-based Wellspring Cooperative Corporation, which runs the Go Fresh Mobile Market, serves as the lead agency. Supporting partners include Baystate Health and its three community health centers – Brightwood Health Center, Mason Square Health…

  • Eat Healthy for Life With This 30-Minute Mediterranean Meal Plan

    Eat Healthy for Life With This 30-Minute Mediterranean Meal Plan

    Want to boost your health and celebrate eating good food? You’ve come to the right place. Good Housekeeping‘s ultimate meal plan will help you fight inflammation, lower the risk of heart disease, ward off type 2 diabetes, improve brain function and so much more! If you join our one-of-a-kind membership program GH+, you’ll get exclusive…

  • Eating red meat more than once a week linked to Type 2 diabetes risk, study finds

    Eating red meat more than once a week linked to Type 2 diabetes risk, study finds

    Healthy eating patterns linked to longer life These four types of healthy diets are linked to longer life 03:48 Bad news for red meat lovers: A new study found eating more than one serving of red meat per week is associated with a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes. For the study, published Thursday in…