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Avocado consumption linked to better overall diet quality
A study by Penn State‘s Nutritional Sciences Department researchers suggests that eating one avocado daily may improve diet quality. Because many adult Americans do not follow dietary guidelines, poor food quality increases the risk of heart disease. Led by Kristina Petersen and Penny Kris-Etherton, the study, published in Current Developments in Nutrition, explored how eating…
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11 Healthiest Canned Beans—and 3 To Avoid
The product recommendations in this post are recommendations by the writer and/or expert(s) interviewed and do not contain affiliate links. Meaning: If you use these links to buy something, we will not earn a commission. While canned products often have an unhealthy reputation, there are tons of healthy products in the canned aisle if you…
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‘Miffy eats the rainbow’: Tips to market fruit and vegetables to kids
News 25 Mar 2024 Using a playful and colourful approach with storytelling can encourage children to try new varieties of fruit and vegetables, according to an ongoing Wageningen University study called ‘Miffy eats the rainbow’. Netherlands-based Wageningen University & Research launched the ‘Miffy’s eat the rainbow’ marketing initiative to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption among…
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Dietitian reveals the eight Easter candies to buy if you’re on a diet
By Maiya Focht For Dailymail.Com Published: 07:13 EDT, 23 March 2024 | Updated: 07:15 EDT, 23 March 2024
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Gisele Bündchen on Healthy Eating and Unhealthy Relationships
Beautiful people are not spared the indignities of overextended joints, which is how the supermodel Gisele Bündchen found herself staring down the barrel of two shoulder surgeries in 2019 and 2020. At the time, Ms. Bündchen was living in Boston with the N.F.L. quarterback Tom Brady, then her husband, still recovering from an operation on…
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Dietician: Losing weight ‘not necessarily about willpower’
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } CUMBERLAND — Fad diets can lead to feelings of guilt, shame and “all or nothing” thoughts of certain foods, said Allison Lutz, lead dietician at UPMC Western Maryland. Sometimes, folks look for a fast diet so they can lose…
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Best protein powder for kids: 7 top picks for optimal growth
If your kid has been facing protein deficiency, including the best protein powder for kids in their diet might help. A proper and well-balanced meal is important for the overall growth and development of children. But mealtime can be a little challenging for parents if their kids are extremely picky about what they eat. Sometimes,…
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‘I no longer eat these five foods that I thought were healthy
In 2023 I decided to change my life. I wanted to lose weight so I could move better, and feel better. It was the first time in my life I’d actually made any real effort to learn about food and nutrition. As part of that learning, I started to listen to podcasts featuring people like…
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I’m a dietitian — here’s what to order at the Olive Garden when…
Cancel the Tour of Italy — and nix those unlimited breadsticks. Dining out at the Olive Garden has been a relatively affordable favorite for more than thirty years — with nearly 900 restaurants, most of us are familiar with its unabashedly American-Italian menu, brimming with cheesy pastabilities. But could a meal here actually be healthy? While bowls…
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Do you know the five food groups?
March is Nutrition Month, which is the perfect time to take a closer look at something you probably learned in school years ago but may not have thought about recently: the five food groups. Depending on your age, you may have been taught about the food groups using the Food Wheel, Food Guide Pyramid or…