Healthline Blogs
Get advice on healthy eating, nutrition, and weight loss from expert dietitian Tara Gidus.
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Apr 13 2010
Less Sleep = More Weight
If you are night owl and can't seem to get yourself to bed at night, starving your body of the sleep it requires, you may be in for another unpleasant side effect: weight gain.Quite a few studies in the past have connected sleeping fewer hours to...
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Apr 10 2010
New Tasty Food Find for Young Kids
I wrote recently about raising adventurous, non-picky eaters. Getting kids to eat the right kinds of food is a constant challenge!My two year old loves fruit snacks, so I was thrilled when I found some organic fruit snacks. These snacks are Tast...
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Apr 07 2010
Calories Posted at Most Chain Restaurants
Did you realize that somewhere in the depths of the health care bill that was just signed was something that will impact if you order a Big Mac?In the new health care bill there is a new requirement that all chain restaurants with over 20 stores h...
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Apr 02 2010
Good For Me, Bad for You
When I saw this study in the Journal of Consumer Research I thought immediately of myself. The study found that people choose healthier foods for themselves than when they are choosing for others. This is so interesting to me and struck a cord a...
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Mar 29 2010
Eat Eggs for Easter
What better time of the year to eat eggs than for Easter? Easter is one of my favorite times of the year. Bring on the eggs!Not too long ago eggs were shunned because we thought they were bad for the heart. But medicine and research has evolv...
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Mar 27 2010
My Two Year Old Eats Octopus
I recently wrote a post about feeding kids and creating healthy eaters. I have to do a follow up on this post with a book I found recently on the subject.The title alone will hook you: My Two-Year-Old Eats Octopus: Raising Children Who Love to ...
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Mar 19 2010
Truth in Packaging: Translating Food Label Terms
Are you completely confused when it comes to reading food labels? What exactly does natural mean? What exactly is unprocessed food vs processed food?Let's look at some terms and decifer their meanings. Thanks to the American Dietetic Associatio...
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Mar 18 2010
Nutrition Made Easy
I am celebrating National Nutrition Month the entire month of March. This is about as exciting as it gets for us in the nutrition world.People think eating right has to be difficult or that everything healthy has to taste like cardboard. Not tru...
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Mar 16 2010
Is Fresh Better Than Canned or Frozen?
While fresh fruits and vegetables are good, they often sit in my crisper drawer and rot. The biggest food cost is when food is wasted and not eaten. That is why I love frozen vegetables so much. They can sit in my freezer for weeks or months, j...
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Mar 05 2010
Nutrition Quiz: Myths About Dieting
I started a quiz in yesterday's post and I know you could barely sleep last night, anxious for the answers, right?True or False: Calories eaten at night are more fattening. FALSE. It doesn't matter what time of the day that you overeat, your bo...
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