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Protein Pointers: Tips to Boost the Benefits

Beginning in their 40s, adults typically lose 1 to 2 percent of their muscle mass every year. Eating the right amount of protein throughout the day can help maintain muscle mass. Other benefits of pr...

How Much Water Should You Drink? It Depends!

Of all the nutrients in your diet, water is one of the body’s most essential. However, many people struggle to meet their daily fluid needs. The old advice is to drink 8 cups of water per day, but t...

The Key to Smart Snacking? Snack with a Purpose!

Between meal snacking sometimes gets a bad reputation, but it can be a healthy way for some people to fill nutrient gaps or fuel throughout the day. The key to smart snacking is to snack with a purpos...

Types Of Salt: Which Is Best?

We all know that it is important to eat less salt. Eating too much sodium can increase your risk for serious medical conditions such as high blood pressure, stroke, and heart disease. When at the gr...

Showing Carbs Some Love During American Heart Month

Carbohydrates deserve a lot of love as they are very important for our overall health and serve many beneficial roles in the body. Currently, carbs are getting demonized and many people are avoiding...

When To "Unfollow" A Diet Trend

When looking on social media you will find many self-proclaimed nutrition experts touting the latest diet trend. Many of these individuals are selling a product and are looking for your money. Other...

What is the Diverticulosis Diet?

Managing your diet with diverticular disease can be challenging and confusing, especially with how much nutrition advice has changed over the years. With 58% of Americans over the age of 60 (and nearl...

Apple vs Pear: How Your Body Shape Impacts Your Health

  Healthy people come in all shapes and sizes: short, tall, lean, muscular, big-boned, apple- or pear-shaped. Genes, lifestyle, and certain health conditions can all impact our body’s size...

One Thing the Paleo Diet Gets Right

Back in the Paleolithic time period when people had to hunt and gather for food, the nutrient make-up of human diets looked much different than our diets today. Due to the freshness of the food they...

What Are Nootropics and Where Can You Find Them?

One of the predicted dietary trends for 2020 is nootropics. Nootropics first arrived in the supplement industry as a way to allegedly enhance cognitive function. The lack of regulation for supplemen...

Is It Really More Expensive To Eat Healthy?

People often say they cant' afford to eat healthy. But is this really true? Some of the most nutritious foods are very affordable. Whether you're trying to stick to a budget with a family or are livin...

4 Bad Excuses for Skipping Breakfast

We all have heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but at least 15% of Americans skip it! Studies flip flop on the impact of breakfast on weight loss but there is no denying tha...

Food Trends For 2020

With the new year comes new food trends. Some of the trends of the past year we will be happy to say goodbye to and others will linger or grow in popularity in 2020. With food trends it is impo...

Probiotics Rich Foods to Boost Your Health

As we enter the season of sniffles and coughs, we are all focused on how to keep ourselves healthy. We all know how bad bacteria can make us sick. But what about the “good” bacteria that can actua...

Healthy Holiday Ingredient Swaps

It's holiday time, which for some means getting into the kitchen to prepare dishes for holiday gatherings or baking cookies for gift-giving. But if you're looking to cut back on fat or cholesterol, co...

Forget Yo-Yo Dieting

Weight management is a struggle for many people and while a healthy focus on weight loss is necessary to help our country’s growing obesity epidemic, some measures for weight loss need to come with ca...

Game Plan for Dealing with Eating Triggers

In an ideal world we would eat when we are hungry and stop when we are full, but for most of us there are many additional reasons why we eat. Many of us start to get influenced by outside so...

Happy and Healthy Holidays

5 Fresh, Dietitian-Approved Tips for a Healthier Holiday Season The holidays may be filled with celebrations, traditions, and special meals but that doesn't mean your healthy habits have to take a bac...