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Diet and Nutrition|Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements|Heart Healthy Diet|Weight Loss|Special Foods and Special Occasions|Conditions and Treatments|Food Safety
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
  • Balanced diet
  • Decreasing your triglycerides through dietary changes
  • Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
  • How much do you know about triglycerides?
  • Optimizing your triglycerides
  • Trans fats: the bad fat in town
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
  • Limit your intake of foods high in calories or low in nutrition
  • Protein-rich foods
  • Sodium
 
Weight Loss
  • Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
  • Balanced diet
  • Ghrelin, the hunger hormone: could it be the key to weight loss?
  • Internet-based weight loss services: how effective are they?
  • Real-life stories of weight loss
  • True or false: eating at night will make you gain weight
 
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
  • Tater talk
  • Thanksgiving, the sequel: making the most of leftovers
  • The great pumpkin
  • The papaya: a little taste of paradise
  • The whole scoop on whole versus refined grains
  • True or false: an apple a day keeps the doctor away
  • True or false: eating turkey makes you drowsy
  • Yogurt: the original health food
 
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
  • Gluten-free MyPlate
  • How to beat a hangover
  • How much do you know about triglycerides?
  • Nutrition and menopause
  • Preventing food allergies in infants and children
  • The importance of counting carbs if you have diabetes
  • The ketogenic diet and epilepsy: does it really work?
  • Understanding binge eating disorder in men
  • What does it really mean to have prediabetes?
  • What to eat if you have diabetes
  • When food doesn't taste good
 
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
  • Guidelines for organic products: what do they mean for you?
  • Irradiated food: an overview
  • Keep your holiday foods safe
  • Organically grown food: is it really a better choice?
  • Organic foods: to buy or not to buy?
  • Preparing for an emergency: a disaster supply kit
  • Safe microwave cooking
  • The growing problem of food poisoning: is irradiation the answer?

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