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National Healthy Eating

Less time on your seat triggers other healthy behaviors

Most children dread when mom comes in and tells them to turn off the TV and go outside to play. Yet, researchers at Northwestern University...
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The joy of farm to table eating

I love farmer’s markets almost as much as I love summer…truly. In my home town, the markets and CSA’s have all begun to share...
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It's Spring! Eat a Salad! The Top 10 Spring Salads

The secret to any salad is the marriage of taste and texture and with the ten salads I'll be sharing with you (all with how-to pictures), you...
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100% beef: what’s really in that stuff?

There is a prevailing belief in our culture that we’re American, descendants of chest-thumping cowboys. We’re made of cheeseburgers and...
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Food for the healthy athlete

As the weather warms and we begin to shed the layers of sweaters we wore all winter, we may notice that we have…well…let things go a...
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What's so great about Chia?

The strange thing about nutrition is that the "rules" of what is good for you seem to change all the time as new research arrives to...
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How fast food has changed our nation

In order to regain control of our health, we need to let go of our childish attachments to food. I don’t mean we are behaving like petulant...
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Humans are meant to cook

If we took cooking seriously, we could change the human condition. French food expert, Jean-Anthelme Brillat Savarin held that cooking made us who...
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Seasonal foods for the month of April

  • What's in season in April
  • April 3, 2012
April is a great month for finding many seasonal fruits and vegetables. Local farmers markets are opening their gates in a lot of areas. Purchasing...
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Eat your veggies!

The question I am most often asked is: “If you could give people one piece of advice to begin to make the change to healthier eating, what...
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