Nutrition Notes: Savvy Summer Salads
Hot summer nights call for a quick and easy meal to keep you cool, hydrated and satiated. With many different fruits and vegetables in season during the summer months, it is the perfect time to…
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Nutrition Notes: Serving up the scoop on ancient grains
Below are a few of the great grains. This week, try incorporating one or two of them into your favorite dish. You will not be disappointed!1. Quinoa: (pronounced “keen-wah”) This South America native grain can…
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Nutrition Notes: Savory & Delicious Stuffed Acorn Squash
With fall season in full swing, I thought it would be a good idea to share my favorite healthy and absolutely delicious fall recipe with you all! These sweet and savory squash bowls are nutritiously…
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Nutrition Notes: Pack a Punch into Your Sandwich
Sandwiches are amazingly versatile and can be easy to put together, less messy, healthy and satisfyingly scrumptious. They can also be made to accommodate most eating choices including vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, soy-free and…
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Nutrition Notes: Protein – Why is it Important?
We all need protein, but how much is enough? Most people (ages 9 and older) should eat 5 to 7 ounces of protein-rich foods each day. What does 5 to 7 ounces look like? Well…
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Nutrition Notes: Snacking with a purpose
All parents understand that it is important to provide healthy snacks to children, but did you know most kids get over a quarter of their daily calories from snacking? A 2010 study reported that sixty…
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Nutrition Notes: S is for Spring… and Strawberries!
Springtime offers a bounty of fruits and vegetables. Because they are one of the first fruits to ripen in the spring, May is the month of strawberries! Strawberries are rich in vitamin C, folic acid,…
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Nutrition Notes: New Year, New You!
Happy New Year! The first few weeks of January are always a time where you can never have enough Wite-Out as we train our brains to remember to write 2014 instead of 2013! New Year’s…
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Nutrition Notes: Nutrition Label Makeover
Deciding which foods to buy at the grocery store may soon get a little easier. A major buzz over the past few weeks has involved the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed changes to food and…
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