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Food and Nutrition

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Children's Nutrition, Fitness & Weight Control
• Ask The Expert: Overweight Teen
• Audio: Kids and Obesity
• Book Review: Fast Food Nation
• Children and Exercise
• Delicious Ways to Sneak Fiber Into Your Child's Diet
• First Person: Dysfunctional High School Days
• Food Safety for Kids
• Guidelines on Childhood Obesity
• How to Get Your Child to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables
• Multimedia: Fitness for Toddlers
• Multimedia: The Edible Schoolyard
• Organic Fruits and Vegetables
• Overweight Kids
• Picky Eaters
• Q & A: My Teen's Weight
• Q&A: Pre-Teens and Exercise
• Quick and Healthful Breakfasts for Kids
• Quick and Healthful Dinners for Kids
• Quick and Healthful Lunches for Kids
• Quick and Healthful Snacks for Kids
• Quiz: How's Your Kid's Diet?
• Skinny Kids, Ages 3-12
• Special Report: Is Soda Making Kids Fat?
• Special Report: School Lunches
• Vegetarian Diets for Kids
• Weight Loss for Children: A Family Affair
Fats, Carbs, Protein (Macronutrients)
• Depression and Fish Oil
• How Much Sugar is Too Much?
• Low-Fat Meals
• Preventing Heart Disease: Watch Your Cholesterol
• Special Report: Craving Sugar
• Special Report: Low-Carb Diets
• Special Report: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and the Heart
• Trans Fats
Food & Water Safety
• Avoiding Bad Eggs
• Cooking a Perfect Turkey
• Food Poisoning: How to Avoid It
• Foodborne Illness
• Quiz: Your Kitchen Habits
• Safe Ways to Prepare Fish
• Seafood and Mercury
• Seafood, Mercury, and Pregnancy
• Special Report: Sushi Worms
• Water Safety
Healthy Eating and Cooking
• A Thanksgiving Worth Celebrating
• Basics of Healthy Eating
• Book Review: Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
• Book Review: Fast Food Nation
• Book Review: Fat Land
• Book Review: Healthy Jewish Cooking
• Book Review: Light Ethnic Cooking
• Book Review: The Dreaded Broccoli Cookbook, Essentially Eggplant, and This Can't Be Tofu!
• Caffeine
• Diet and the Color Code
• Downsize This! The Fun of Smaller Portions
• Eating Healthy alla Italiana
• Fast Food Pitfalls
• First Person: Fat of the Land
• First Person: Junk Food Heaven
• First Person: Love Those Chips!
• Food Labels 101
• Get Your Juices
• Healthy Eating for One
• Healthy Eating in a Hurry
• Healthy Eating on a Budget
• Heart-Healthy Cooking with Recipe Substitutions
• Quick & Healthy Eating Tips
• Quick and Healthful Breakfasts
• Quick and Healthful Dinners
• Quick and Healthful Lunches
• Quick and Healthful Snacks
• Special Report: Cinco de Mayo
• Special Report: What's Wrong With the American Diet?
• Special: Happy Thanksgiving!
• The New Food Pyramid
Nutrition During Pregnancy
• Artificial Sweeteners and Pregnancy
• Caffeine
• Calcium and Pregnancy
• Controlling Junk Food Cravings
• Diet for a Healthy Pregnancy
• Fats a Pregnant Woman Can Love
• Folic Acid
• Foods to Help Your Baby Grow
• Iron and Pregnancy
• Prenatal Vitamin Supplements
• Quiz: Do You Know How to Eat Smart While Pregnant?
• Seafood, Mercury, and Pregnancy
• Special Report: Cravings During Pregnancy
• Twins: Special Nutrition and Exercise Needs
• Weight Gain During Pregnancy
Nutrition Rx
• Alcohol and the Heart
• Book Review: Heart-Healthy Recipes
• Caffeine and Conception
• Depression and Fish Oil
• Diet and Cancer
• Diet and Diabetes
• Diet and Headaches
• Diet and High Blood Pressure
• Diet and Menopause
• Diet and PMS
• Diet for Healthy Bones
• Diet for a Healthy Heart
• Eat Right for Energy
• Eating to Ward Off Heart Disease
• Food Rx: Eating Right to Stay Healthy
• Food and Mood
• Food and Pain
• Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention
• Heart-Healthy Cooking with Recipe Substitutions
• Preventing Diabetes Through Diet and Exercise
• Preventing Heart Disease: Watch Your Cholesterol
• Salt and High Blood Pressure
• Special Report: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and the Heart
Recipes
• Multimedia: Farm-Fresh Cooking
• Recipe: Apple Brown Betty (Dessert)
• Recipe: Pan-Seared Salmon With Couscous
• Recipe: Winter Squash Soup With Garlic Toasts
Special Diets
• Calcium Without the Cow
• Eat Right for Energy
• Lactose Intolerance FAQ
• Macrobiotics
• Vegetarian
• Weight Loss Programs vs. Fad Diets
Vitamins & Minerals
• Calcium
• Calcium Without the Cow
• Calcium and Pregnancy
• Chromium
• Chromium Picolinate
• Daily Nutrition Calculator (Vitamins and Minerals)
• Folic Acid
• Iron
• Iron and Pregnancy
• Multivitamins
• Potassium
• Prenatal Vitamin Supplements
• Quiz: Vitamin ABCs
• Selenium
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E
• Zinc
Weight Loss Programs vs. Fad Diets

Useful sites
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
- Nutrio.com: Nutrition
- Delicious Decisions
- Live Healthier, Live Longer
- Betty Crocker
- Healthy Refrigerator
- CyberDiet

News archive

In the News
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-Skip the Burgers and Throw Some Veggies on the Grill
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-Mediterranean Diet Cuts Death From Chronic Diseases
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Cool Tools
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Calorie Need Calculator
Daily Food Diary
Daily Nutrition Calculator (Vitamins and Minerals)
Fast Food Fact Finder
Healthy Eating Guide
Healthy Shopping Guide
How Many Calories Are You Drinking?
Quiz: Do You Know Your Mexican Food?
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Carbs?
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Sugar?
Quiz: Vitamin ABCs
Quiz: What Do You Know About Trans Fats?
Test Your Serving-Size Smarts
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