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2024 Predictions and 11 Trends for Food and Nutrition Education
As we welcome 2024 and a new year, it is often fun to contemplate where we have been and where we are going on our food, health, and nutrition education journey. The nutrition research, as we have seen over numerous years of Dietary Guideline reviews and in the present 2020-2025 edition, has corroborated a whole-food, plant-based, minimally-processed diet that is low in added sugar, salt, and processed fat especially with regards to trans fat and saturated fat.
Go Foods for Better Weight Control
Should Cravings Be Your Guide?
Carbohydrate 101
Carbohydrates are one of three macronutrients: carbohydrates, protein, and fat. They contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. Carbohydrates provide most of the energy needed in our daily lives for normal body functions such as heartbeat, breathing, and digestion and for physical activity and exercise.
Elementary School Nutrition Presentations
Fast and Cheap School Lunches
We still need to feed our families and make the most of our meals...
Food News: Shop with 3
Here are three easy goals to keep front and focus when you are grocery shopping.
3 Cancer Risk Reduction Strategies
The National Cancer Institute has revealed that some risk factors for cancer can be controlled. Choosing the right health behaviors and preventing exposure to certain environmental risk factors can help prevent cancer development. In other words, taking steps can reduce your risk of cancer is possible. Let’s look at some specific strategies.
Pleasure versus Hunger Eating
The research on cravings suggests that eating for pleasure versus hunger may drive us to crave highly palatable foods.
Greens
If you are tired of romaine, iceberg and grocery store lettuce and greens, wait until you see the list of items we just found in a farmer's market. Braising, salad, sprouts and so many flavors await!
Farmer's Market Meal Planning
Here is how to shop and plan meals using a farmer’s market. Lots of delicious ideas.
Go green, go!
Let’s go green for more sustainability, better, health, nutrition month, and St Patrick’s Day
After School Snack: Apple Nachos
Whole Grain and Lentil Pasta Bowl
Gifts for the Heart
Nutrition Month Bingo
Kale Pasta With Walnuts and Sun-Dried Tomatoes
This pasta dish is a winner dinner! Flavorful, healthy, easy.
Mushroom Alfredo Pasta - Healthful Style
Mushrooms add an umami meaty flavor to vegetarian pasta.
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