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Take a role in kid’s health at school
Last month the American Dietetic Association published the first School Nutrition Dietary Assessment study. This study showed that children and adolescents are not meeting their dietary recommend...
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Small changes now in eating and good exercise can make a big difference later
March has been designated National Nutrition Month. It is a month when the focus is on the importance of making good food choices and developing healthy eating and physical activity habits. Now i...
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Preventing vitamin D deficiency in infants
Due to the fortification of milk with vitamin D, rickets was nearly eradicated in the 1930s. A case study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine discussed a 9-month-old boy who...
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Some bacteria can help digestive health
With everything from yogurt to soy products and nutrition supplements fortified with probiotics, it is difficult to turn on the television without hearing someone touting the health benefits of i...
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Healthy diet is one way to promote heart health
While heart disease has been seen as a “man’s disease” it is now the leading cause of death among women in the United States. In 2005, more than 454,000 women died of heart disease, according to t...
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Take proper precautions to avoid foodborne illness
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there are 76 million cases of foodborne illness and 5,000 associated deaths occur in the United States every year. Foodborne illness is caus...
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Is soda the cause of obesity?
by Melissa Black
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As the number of obese people continues to rise, scientists are continually looking for the causes and ways to correct the problem. An analysis of energy consumed from soft drinks, fruit drinks...
Women can prevent neural birth defects by taking folic acid
by Melissa Black
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As Part of Birth Defects Awareness Month, Jan. 5 through 11 is National Folic Acid Awareness Week. This is a week in which the Center for Disease Control and Prevention focus on the importance of...
A healthy lunch can help keep you moving all day long
by Melissa Black
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It is time for lunch and the meal you choose to eat may be more important than you think. We all would like to live long, vigorous lives and a healthy lunch can help. If you strain to concentrate...
More nutritious snacking can help promote good health in teenagers
by Melissa Black
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A study at the Beltsville Human Nutrition research center looked at the eating habits of more than 4,000 teenagers nationwide and how snacking frequency impacts intake of nutrients and food group...
Eat a healthy balanced diet to avoid iron deficiency
by Melissa Black
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Iron deficiency, a condition in which the body’s iron stores become too low, is considered by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as “the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide.” ...
Tips to overcome the yo-yo diet
by Melissa Black
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Anyone who has battled with weight loss is familiar with the problems of the yo-yo effect. The yo-yo effect is a term defined in “Krause’s Food, Nutrition and Diet Therapy,” by L. Kathleen Mahan ...
Eat your way to a healthy immune system over winter
by Melissa Black
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Now that winter is upon us, it is important to maintain an active immune system to stay healthy all season long. The immune system is one of the best defenses against illness. The National Instit...
Avoid emotional eating to achieve a healthy weight
by Melissa Black
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Weight loss is accomplished by eating fewer calories than you use up with activity. While that is easily said, we all know that it is difficult to do. One reason it can be difficult is because ea...
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