Food & Nutrition Archive
Diet and Nutrition
- 70 and beyond: what you need to eat
- Are three squares a day the only healthy way?
- Avoiding gas-producing foods
- Balanced diet
- Cueing into your eating patterns
- Deciphering the Nutrition Facts label: do you really know what you are eating?
- Diet detectives: spotting sensible diets
- Do raw food (living food) diets promote good health?
- Eat well, exercise well, be well: dietary and fitness guidelines
- Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
- Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables
- Eating a diet moderate in protein-rich foods
- Eating during pregnancy: a labor for Dad, too
- Eating healthfully on a tight budget
- Eating healthy: Tips to make it easier
- Eating well—and safely—during your golden years
- Eating with color
- Empty plates for empty nesters
- Food cravings
- Fast food salads: making smart and healthy choices
- Fruit and vegetable servings for children
- Gluten-free MyPlate
- Health nuts: eating nuts may be healthful
- Healthful eating for teens on the run
- Healthful snacking: is it possible?
- Healthy snacks to prevent tooth decay in kids
- Improving nutrition in the elderly
- Is there such a thing as "junk food"?
- Just how much food is on that plate? Understanding portion control
- Kids and cholesterol: keeping cholesterol levels under control
- Limiting potassium in your diet
- Limiting your intake of sugar
- MyPlate kids' place: food guidelines for children
- New ways to be "creative" in the kitchen
- Nutrition and menopause
- Supermarket savvy
- The best diet for you
- The DASH diet
- The ketogenic diet and epilepsy
- The Mediterranean diet and good health
- The truth behind nutrition folklore
- True or false: eating at night will make you gain weight
- Understanding what's on MyPlate
- Vegetarian diet for kids: what you need to know
- Vegetarian myths
- What is the glycemic index?
Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements
- Biotin
- Calcium
- Choline
- Chromium
- Folate
- Iodine
- Iron
- Magnesium
- Niacin (vitamin B3)
- Phosphorus
- Potassium
- Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
- Selenium
- Sodium
- Thiamin (vitamin B1)
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin K
- Zinc
- Antioxidants and your health
- Deciphering the nutrition facts label: do you really know what you are eating?
- Dietary reference intakes
- Eat a diet rich in calcium
- Eat a diet rich in vitamin D
- Folic acid: a "family values" vitamin
- Good food sources of folate
- Good food sources of iron
- Good food sources of vitamin B6
- Good food sources of vitamin B12
- Limiting potassium in your diet
- Omega-3 fatty acids and mental health
- Ordinary foods, extraordinary health claims
- Soy: can you get too much of a good thing?
- Supplements: to take or not to take, that is the question
- Are there any benefits of fish fat?
- Vitamin D: let the sun shine?
Heart Healthy Diet
Getting to the Heart of a Healthful Diet
- Choose fats with 2 grams or less saturated fat per serving
- Eat a variety of grain products, including whole grains
- Eat less than 6 grams of salt
- Empty-calorie foods
- Fats
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet
- Have no more than one alcoholic drink per day if you're a woman and no more than two if you're a man
- Include fat-free and low-fat milk products, fish, legumes (beans), skinless poultry, and lean meats
- Limit foods high in saturated fat, trans fat, and/or cholesterol
Special Foods and Special Occasions
- All about shellfish
- Apples: the not-so-forbidden fruit
- Avocado: the misunderstood fruit
- Bulking up on fiber
- Could you be allergic to sulfites?
- Decreasing your caffeine intake
- Demystifying oil
- Dining with an International Flair: Eating Healthy in Greek, Indian, and Japanese Restaurants
- Eating healthy while on a cruise
- Eating out: good for the tastebuds, bad for the waistline
- Eating whole grains
- Eggs by design
- Garden vegetables: more healthful than vegetables from the market?
- Health nuts: eating nuts may be healthful
- Holiday eating: it's about enjoyment, not guilt
- Holiday food: drafting a winning lineup
- How far has your food travelled?
- On the road again…but with healthful snacks
- Ordinary foods, extraordinary health claims
- Summertime…and the grilling is easy
Conditions and Treatments
- A family's guide to tackling eating disorders
- Anemia: how food and vitamins can help
- Colon cleansing: don't be misled by the claims
- Diabetes and alcohol: caution when mixing
- Do you have prehypertension?
- Eating disorders: when food and weight take control
- Eating well while receiving chemotherapy
- Food allergy—it's nothing to sneeze at
Food Safety
- Preventing foodborne illnesses from the farm to the fridge
- Acrylamide: snack food cancer risk or not?
- Food additives: friends or foes?
- Food expiration dates: what do they really mean?
- Food safety
- Grillmasters get a food safety lesson