“For the love of all that is dairy, why are we still eating low-fat?” asked Bon Appetit last year. “Science has come around on full-fat dairy. Why haven’t we listened?”…
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Think all lentils are brown? Wait until you meet these dazzlers. All recipes in this post developed by Kate Sherwood, The Healthy Cook. Click here for a printer-friendly version of…
Only 1 in 10 American adults say that they eat the recommended 2 to 3 cups of vegetables every day. If that doesn’t include you, take heart. If you have access…
We recently posted about how to cut calories and boost nutrients when you’re on the go and eating out. Here are a few more examples. Subway If you take Subway’s…
What you put in or on your burrito, sub, smoothie, latte, pizza, bagel, or plate of fast-Chinese food matters. Here are a few examples of how to slash the calories…
Get Life-Saving Information on Diet and Nutrition Right Now! Dear Friend, You’ve always wanted life-saving information about the foods you eat. You should know, for example, that Marie Callender’s Chicken…
Most ploys for getting kids to eat vegetables just create lifelong negative attitudes about veggies. And bribery to eat their vegetables is even worse! That tells a child that vegetables…
“Say cheese! It’s yummier than yogurt!” says the label of Elli Quark. Quark may be new to Americans (so new that Elli may not have reached your area yet), but Europeans…
Most people know that calcium is good for bones, fiber is good for constipation, and iron is good for blood, to name a few. But once you go beyond the basics, the picture gets murky.
Here’s a healthy food quiz (questions and answers included) to see how well you know which foods or nutrients can prevent or promote which diseases.
Feel free to cheat. The questions aren’t really a test of how well you read (and remember) every issue of Nutrition Action. They’re just a sneaky way to get you to look at the answers, which contain a wealth of information on how your diet affects your health.
Beans, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, milk, bran. Those are some of the usual suspects when people are trying to figure out, ahem, what foods cause gas. And those foods can cause gas.
But most of us overlook a growing source of the problem: inulin, or chicory root extract, one of the most popular ingredients in “high-fiber” foods.