Salads that make one-bowl meals. What’s not to love! Check out Salad Days!, Nutrition Action‘s newest cookbook by Kate Sherwood, The Healthy Cook. Here’s a sample. The recipe in this post was developed…
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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…
This is one of my favorite solutions to “what’s for lunch?” Toss cooked lentils and whole grain with some shredded or chopped vegetables, a bit of fresh or dried fruit,…
“If it wasn’t on a caveman’s menu, it shouldn’t be on yours.” That’s the basic premise of a Paleo diet. The question remains, as it should for any diet—is Paleo healthy?
Maybe you’ve heard of the Nordic diet, the Mediterranean diet, and more recently, the gluten-free diet, but these are all very different from the primal diet known as Paleo.
But is the Paleo diet healthy?
Protein is hot, hot, hot! It’s one of the latest marketing buzzwords. From shakes to cereals and granola bars, companies are scrambling to market foods that have—or pretend to have—more…
It’s not just kids’ cereals that are too sweet. Adult cereals like Kashi GoLean Crunch have 3 teaspoons of added sugars per (3/4 cup) serving. The American Heart Association recommends…
Remember when salad dressing meant Italian, French, Thousand Island, or something called Catalina? No longer. These days, even balsamic vinaigrette, blue cheese, Caesar, honey mustard, and ranch are run of…
Moove over, cow’s milk. A growing number of Americans are ditching dairy for “milks” made from almonds, cashews, coconut, flax, hazelnuts, hemp, oats, rice, soy, or other plants. But what…
Milk Although the variety in the dairy case is impressive, the steps you should take to protect yourself from most dairy-related foodborne illnesses are blessedly simple. Never drink unpasteurized milk,…
What are sugar substitutes? Sugar substitutes are sweet substances or products that have no calories or far fewer calories than regular sugar (sucrose). Some are artificial, and some are derived…