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Category: Nutrition
Super Bowl Survival Guide
Hey football fans! Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the biggest football game of the season is 2 days away! Whether you’re hosting or attending a party, you’ll be surrounded by all sorts of waistline-expanding food. … Continue reading
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Are you making your kids fat?
Childhood obesity is on the rise with 30% of kids either overweight or obese. Even worse, many of these kids are getting diagnosed with diseases once only seen in adults – high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and sleep apnea. … Continue reading
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Quinoa Jambalaya Recipe
Quinoa is an amazing grain. Well, technically it’s a fruit, and a relative of spinach and swiss chard, but we consider it a grain. Native to the Andes mountains, Chenopodium quinoa, Wild, has been eaten for over 5,000 years by … Continue reading
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Oven-roasted Root Vegetables
If you didn’t already know it, we are HUGE fans of oven-roasting vegetables. This technique uses high heat to cook the veggies, caramelizing the natural sugars found in them, resulting in a sweet and intensely-flavored dish. Now that we are … Continue reading
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Cinnamon-dusted Butternut squash
The months of October and November are all about the pumpkin. But let us not forget about its cousin, the Butternut squash. A member of the same family as melon and zucchini, butternut squash delivers in flavor and versatility, as … Continue reading
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Breast Cancer Prevention Diet
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it’s never to late to make changes to your diet to reduce your risk of cancer. We know that what you eat can impact not only your risk of cancer, but help you … Continue reading
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Rustic Sweet Potato recipe
With the fall season upon us, there’s definitely a change in the air and a change in what our bodies are craving. We want warm, comforting foods, like chili, soup, stews, and hearty veggies like winter squash, mushrooms, and sweet … Continue reading
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It’s the Great Pumpkin!
Fall is here which means that those lovely orange gourds will be prominently displayed in your local supermarket. A relative of cucumbers and melons, the pumpkin is actually a fruit and not a vegetable (nutrition fun fact of the day: … Continue reading
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Ch-ch-ch Chia!
You know the cute little Chia Pets that seem to pop up every year around the holiday time. Spread the seeds, water, and watch them grow “hair” over a few short weeks. The hair is actually the sprouts of the … Continue reading
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Breakfast of Champions
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!” How many times have you heard that? And do you know why? Let’s take a look at the word breakfast and split it into it’s two components: break and fast. It’s … Continue reading
