Healthline Blogs
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Get an Early Start to Ward off Childhood Overweight
Here’s more fuel to add to the childhood obesity flame. A couple of interesting reports came out this week highlighting risk factors that may predispose our kids to being overweight. Listen up if you want to know what to be on the lookout for.The ...
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Holiday Food Safety Tips
We talked about turkey safety already back in November and now that Christmas is coming up it's time for some additional food safety steps you should take when hosting the 'big meal'. Here are five that'll get you started.1. Stick to the two-hour ...
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Grand Rounds Strikes Again!
Many thanx to Bob at Health Care Law Blog for hosting this week's huge undertaking of Grand Rounds aptly titled Grand Rounds 3.5: A Visual Tour. WOW! Bob really presented a plethora of the best medical and healthcare blogs out there. You've got to...
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Welcome to the Family Fork
Welcome to “The Family Fork: Feeding the Kids and You.” As a consumer, parent, child caretaker or educator you probably feel bombarded with all the conflicting messages and information you are hit with on a daily basis coming from the media, othe...
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When Potassium Needs Are Low
Usually I am pushing people to try to get more potassium into their diets because of the numerous health benefits it confers, such as keeping blood pressure in check and helping to maintain strong bones.But we've received a request from a reader w...
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The Food Label Can be Your Friend
I had a meeting today with a local superintendent for Los Angeles Unified and he shared with me that he and his family have recently started trying to eat more healthfully. But like many people he is often swayed by clever marketing when grocery s...
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Revisting Holiday Healthy Eating Tips
The same tips apply from Underindulging on Thanksgiving for all the other holiday parties you'll be swinging by or hosting these last two weeks of December. But I wouldn't be a proper dietitian if I didn't offer up some more before the end of the ...
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Grand Rounds: Diet and Food
Many thanx to Dr. LaPuma at DrJohnLapuma.com for hosting this week's Grand Rounds: Diet and Food. As a registered dietitian I am especially appreciative that he sees food as medicine and highlights the role food plays in keeping us optimally healt...
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Have You Tried MyPyramid.gov Lately?
Do you want to know how many calories you or your kids should be eating every day; or how much fruit and veggies, meat, bread or dairy foods? If you haven't already checked out the website MyPyramid.gov check it out!It's a great tool that is so ea...
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Get Your Potassium
I've had a couple of questions regarding potassium recently which sparked me to post a reminder to make sure you're getting enough from your daily diet. I am speaking to those of you generally in good health and conscious of your nutrient needs. (...
