Healthline Blogs
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Newsbites March 16
A couple of interesting studies came out this week that stuck out. Sugary soft drinks are being picked on again. Big surprise, but with lots of data behind it. A recent review has compiled facts and figures from almost 90 studies looking at the ef...
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Recipe of the Week: Spinach and Meat Cakes
Here's one that mixes some spinach in, not that we're trying to hide it.Spinach and Meat Cakes Ingredients:* 1 pound 7% ground beef or ground turkey* 1 pound bag/box frozen chopped spinach - thawed and drained* ½ onion, finely chopped* 2 garlic cl...
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Recipe of the Week: Jicama Orange Salad
Jicama (pronounced hee-ka-ma) is one of my favorite 'munch on' vegetables and gives a nice gnoshing break from baby carrots during the long winter. If you're not familiar with jicama you may know it by its other names 'yambean' or 'Mexican potato'...
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Labelman!
Are you a label reader? Are your kids? Do you know what you're looking at when you do read the Nutrition Facts food label?I'm a big Nutrition Facts label reader (kind of obsessed actually) and I assume everyone else is cause I just can't stop myse...
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Recipe of the Week: Lime-Cilantro Corn
I promised you at the beginning of the week I would work on posting the recipes I had the pleasure of tasting during the LAUSD Nutrition Network workshop I attended Monday called "Cooking in the Classroom". This first one I didn't think I would li...
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Blogs You Can Use and a Little NNM
National Nutrition Month continues and I thought I'd point out to you to a couple of other blogs I think you will find useful an interesting.Have you ever thought about how your diet affects your quality of sleep? In honor of National Nutrition Mo...
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Recipe of the Week
Ok, since we're on this salad kick for the moment here's a yummy one that not only gets in fruit and herbs, but some whole grains! Who woulda thunk it? This is a salad that I used to make for taste testing at Farmers' Markets and it was a winner. ...
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Nutrition News Roundup
Lots going on in the news this week. I was thinking of doing a roundup at the end of the week if there's enough newsy stuff to talk about. This week there are a few interesting items. I'll try to touch on a couple and we'll see how this goes.Fat F...
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Newsbites: March 3
Unlike last week all kinds of things happening this week. Here goes a sampling:Probably the biggest piece of news was schools may actually be the institution that's helping prevent obesity in children rather than exacerbating it. Or at least slowi...
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Time to Rethink Your Drink!
Sugary soft drinks are unbelievably popular with our kids and even adults. And I'm not just talking carbonated "sodas"; I'm also talking all soft drinks including "fruit" flavored drinks, sweetened ice teas, flavored waters, even juices are laden ...
