Nutrition

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Feed Your Children Well

Dan Imhoff | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slow Food Usa, National School Lunch Program, Childhood Nutrition, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Childhood Nutrition Act, School Lunches, Politics News

The cheap calorie delivery system -- funded for the past few decades through both the Farm Bill and the Child Nutrition Act -- has become a key player in the Supersizing of our kids.

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Are $5 Fast Food Deals Making Us Fat?

Dr. Eric Braverman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Braverman, Path, Health, Fast Food, Calories, Burger King, McDonald's, Nutrition, Kfc, Earl Mindell, Sweet Tea, Living News

Be wary of a $5 fast food deal. What's cost effective now might be incredibly expensive to deal with in the future, just in health care dollars alone.

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Back to School: Recipe(s) for Success

Ashley Koff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Flu, Childhood Nutrition, Kids, Children's Health, Children, Nutrition, Living News

For many parents, back-to-school presents mixed emotions tipping the balance in favor of anxiety.

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Go Nuts: The Incredible Edible Walnut

Neil Zevnik | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Food, Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Recipes, Cooking, Health, Nutrition, Living News

I had rarely thought about the ubiquitous walnut, beyond observing it in the occasional salad or enjoying it in baklava. Little did I know that its uses have been innumerable and fascinating for millennia.

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Unplug and Recharge: 5 Steps to a Colorful Meal

Sara Avant Stover | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Health, Ayurveda Healing, Natural Healing, Recipes, Wellness, Nutrition, Ayurveda, Living News

Here's one of my favorite (fast) recipes to make when temperatures start to drop.

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My Favorite Summer Salads

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Local Food, Organic Food, Recipes, Nutrition, Health, Summer Cooking, Cooking, Salad Recipes, Salad, Style News

Here are two of my favorite summer salads that you can eat as a full meal. And they're highly flexible, so you can adapt them to your own family's taste.

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How Heavy is Your Fitness Footprint?

Carole Carson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

We need to figure out how to reduce lifestyle-related diseases that trigger the need for expensive medical care in the first place. We need to lighten our fitness footprint.

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Small Good News: No Double-Standard Dining In School Cafeterias

Karen Stabiner | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Malia Obama, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Cdc, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Diabetes, Sasha Obama, School Lunch, Living News

It's not for nothing that companies sign up high-profile celebrities to sell their goods: the customer's drawn as much to borrowed élan a...

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Sprouting

Stefan Aschan | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Energy, Nutrition, Vitamin, Weight Loss, Diet, Loss Weight, Detox, Healthy Eating, Arugula, Sprouting, Eating, Living News

Sprouts are full of nutrients when they are about to sprout.

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Unplug and Recharge: A Refreshing Summer Elixir

Sara Avant Stover | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Health and Wellness, Health, Summer, Personal Health, Nutrition, Wellness, Recipes, Drink Recipes, Water, Drinking Water, Dehydration, Living News

Cucumber water is so refreshing on hot summer days and looks quite elegant simply sitting on the kitchen counter or table, too.

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People Don't Know What Healthy Eating Is

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Healthy Eating, Shopping, Cooking, Nutrition, Weight Loss, Diet, Obesity, Processed Foods, Calorie Restriction, Whole Foods, Whole-Foods, Fresh Food, Calorie Content, Calorie Counts, Living News

You do have to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. You can't rely on processed foods to be healthy. You have to cook, a little and learn the calories in the food you eat.

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Resuscitating Health Care Reform

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 09.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Dean Ornish, Healthy Eating, Preventative Healthcare, Healthy Lifestyle, Dr Dean Ornish, Prevention, Nutrition, Health, Health Care, Health Action, Living News

Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions.

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When the Body Screams: Help! I Am in Stress!

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Stress Response, Positive Thinking, Holistic Medicine, Humor, Nutrition, Exercise, Love Response, Mind-and-Body, Laughter, Diet, Love, Joy, Living News

To reduce severe accumulation of stress, you must find as many ways as possible for your brain and body to release endorphins, which turns stress response off. Here are 8 things you can do.

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My Cat Got Fat: A Disaster

Stefan Aschan | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Home Workouts, Cats, Shape Your Waist, Simple Home Routine, Exercise, Nutrition, Shape Your Arms, Circuit Training, Shape Your Legs, Weight Loss, How to Stay in Shape, Diet, How to Lose Weight, Bikini Body, Flatten Your Belly, Flatten Your Stomach, Living News

These circuits are highly motivational; plus they train your anaerobic system, burn the highest amounts of fat calories and prevent boredom.

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A Letter From A Fan

Laura Trice | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq, Food, Healthy Food, Junk Food, Home Cooking, Food Choices, Iraw War, Nutrition, Fresh Food, Iraq Military, Care-Packages, Health Food, Living News

I recently received a care package that contained your Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bite-lettes. I had never had them before and they are such a welcome treat!

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The Real Reason to Eat Organic Food

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Agricutlure, Pesticides, Chemicals, Research, Organic Food, Health, Nutrition, Living News

Aside from the fact that the nutritional content of just about ALL of our food has declined over the past 50 years, we are, as a rule, overfed. And good nutrition is available from many sources in our diet.

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Health-Boosting Blueberries: Five Easy Recipes

self.com | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Blueberries, Brain, Nutrition, Health, Women's Health, Food, Weight Loss, Men's Health, Eating, Food for Health, Obesity, Living News

This small fruit makes a big splash: Anthocyanins, the pigments behind blueberries' hue, may fight skin cancer and wrinkles while helping brain cells ...

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The Real Cost of Obesity

Arthur Agatston, M.D. | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Exercise, School Gardens, Weight Loss, Fitness, Health Care, Health Care Spending, Obesity, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, School Lunch Programs, Arthur Agatston, South Beach Diet, Living News

No matter what health care delivery system this country adopts, no matter what plan or series of plans are enacted, it will be bankrupted in no time b...

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Organic Versus Conventional Food: UK Report Flawed

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Scientific Research, Food Standards Agency UK, Organic Food, United Kingdom, Sustainable Food, Nutrition, Health, Agriculture, Sustainability, Conventional v. Organic, Food Politics, Food, Green News

The attention-grabbing report ignored the 15 relevant studies that have come out since their February 2008 cut off date that could have changed the outcome of the report.

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Meatless Mondays: 52 Opportunities for Rejuvenation

Sarah Newman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Nutrition, Farmers Markets, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Obesity, Meatless Monday, Meatless Mondays, Green News

One of the easiest and most profound ways to improve your health is by skipping meat and thereby eating lower on the food chain every Monday.

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A Healthier America

Anna Deavere Smith | Posted 08.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health, Nutrition, Home News

If a new improved era in health care comes to pass, we will need to reclaim our bodies back from medicine. We need to revise not just health care, but also our relationship to it.

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Mind Your Own Fat

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Over-Eating, Dr. Regina Benjamin, Exercise, Nutrition, Oprah, Fat, Fox News, Genetics, Obama, Medication, Surgeon General, Obesity, Living News

Let's talk about fat. Really talk about it. Oprah does. Why not the rest of America?

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Wheaties - Breakfast of Champions or Just Sea Monkeys?

Fred Hahn | Posted 08.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Athletes, Nutrition, Sea Monkeys, Wheaties, Healthy Eating, Health, Cereal Grains, Health Food, Cereal, Sugar, Living News

The real breakfast of champions would consist of real foods - meat, eggs, fish, vegetables and fruit - foods that actually exist in real life.

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Why Self-Help Can't Solve It All

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Crisis, Food Choices, Dieting, Fda, Nutrition, Weight Gain, David Kessler, Diet, Living Ne, Food Industry, Food Policies, Living News

The rest of us have to subsidize food industry profits through covering the health care costs of the resulting health problems.

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Snack Attack: U.S. Schools Should Rethink Vending Machines Right Now!

Susan Weissman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, USDA Policy, Obama Nominee Kevin Concannon, Healthy Snacks, Vending Machines in Schools, Nutrition, School Funding, Living News

it just doesn't make sense to encourage a child to run a soccer field with the "empty calories" of Doritos in her stomach. Some schools around the U.S. are addressing that health contradiction.

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