10 Nutrition Tips
Make your own healthy guacamole by combining an avocado with cut up tomatoes, onions and chilies to taste. Eat it with baked tortilla chips or cut up oven-baked pieces of pita bread. Remember that ...
Teens learn nutrition do's in supermarket
For a group of urban teen girls, lessons in nutrition began in the produce section and ended in dairy at a suburban supermarket a few miles from their school. But the give-and-take was the most energe ...
Pack extra nutrition into every bite with these expert tips
In 2005, the government's revised Dietary Guidelines for Americans introduced the term "nutrient density," which sounds complicated but simply refers to how much nutrition a food provides. For example ...
New guide promotes Latin American Diet Pyramid
A new food pyramid, designed to encourage Latinos to eat healthier, touts the staples of traditional Latin-American cooking as the path to better nutrition.
The Latin American Diet Pyramid emphasizes ...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Nutrition: Proteins
When deciding what's healthy and what's only marketed to appear healthy, how does one know for sure? Here's a table of the healthy foods vs. the unhealthy ones:
BEANS: Good: Beans cooked witho ...
Eating on the Run
Runners on the go with limited time and money need a food plan that combines solid nutrition, convenience, and relatively low cost. We need our carbs, moderate protein and fat, preferably consumed w ...
Learning to make the right decisions if you must eat fast food
If You Must...
...Go to Jack in the Box, get the Southwest Chicken Pita. With only 230 calories and3.5 grams of fat, 34 g carbs, 3 g fiber, 18 g protein, this is a good choice if you must.
...Go to ...
Chinese restaurants a nutritionist's nightmare, group says
The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found.
A plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more tha ...
10 Nutrition Tips
10 Nutrition Tips
If you buy butter or margarine, look for the whipped, lower fat versions available in tubs. Use them sparingly though, because they're still concentrated sources of fat.
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