Strategies for Managing Processed Foods in Your Eating Pattern

Encourage your clients to plan meals and snacks to include more unprocessed or minimally processed foods. That way they can decrease the amount of ultra-processed foods in their eating patterns...

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Untangling Processed Foods: Ultra Processed, Minimally Processed, and More

It’s not as simple as processed vs unprocessed because even washing or packaging a food makes it technically a processed food...

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Nutritional Needs in Times of Stress

Recently one of our readers reached out to ask about meeting “nutritional needs in times of stress.” It turns out that what you eat can have an impact on your mental health, so "lettuce" take a closer look at food and mood and other ways to deal with stress...

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Get Enough Zinc, Iron, and B12 Each Day

Now that we've established that it’s important to focus on three individual nutrients that are more prevalent in animal products (zinc, iron, and vitamin B12) when eating a plant-based diet, it's time to look at ways to get enough of these nutrients.

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Sodium and the American Diet

Sodium is hiding everywhere. Shocking amounts of it are in restaurant and frozen foods, while many packaged and canned foods have tons of sodium as well. The first step towards reducing sodium intake is learning about which foods have what levels. That's where this chart comes in...

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