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Four Tips for Eating Healthy Without Going on a Diet
Eating healthy can seem daunting, especially with all the conflicting messages about nutritious eating that bombard us on a daily basis. Such confusion can cause some to doubt their food choices or...
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Where Do Sustainable and Healthy Food Choices Intersect?
Healthy food choices are often on many of our minds as we plan what our next meal will include. Many of us are also focused on sustainability and the environmental aspects of our food chain that impact...
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What is the pegan diet?
What is the Pegan Diet?The pegan diet is a mash-up of two popular styles of eating: vegan and paleo. With the vegan diet’s strict adherence to animal-free eating and paleo’s reputation for being...
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What You Need to Know About Climate Change and Our Food
Many of us have heard the term “climate change” and may wonder what exactly it means and if it could impact the world’s food supply. Certainly, the term itself implies a change in weather patterns, so...
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What is Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting has fast become a diet trend worth noting. For the past two years, the IFIC Foundation’s Food and Health Survey has found that intermittent fasting is one of the most widely cited...
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Top Five Foods To Avoid for Food Safety
While we often recommend our safe food-handling practices like using clean utensils and storing foods properly to help reduce the risk of foodborne illness, we thought for this year’s Food Safety Month...
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Reducing Food Waste On the Go
Sustainability is an important topic, and many of us want to do our part in decreasing waste and improving the well-being of our planet. But many of us are really busy, which can potentially compromise...
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What is Regenerative Agriculture?
Climate change is affecting all our favorite foods — from avocado toast to acai bowls — and how farmers grow food matters more now than ever. One way farmers are improving their food-growing game is...
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Nutrition 101 Video Series: Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
This is the seventh installment of our “Nutrition 101” video series, presented in partnership with Osmosis, a group that focuses on health science education, highlighting the basics of several...
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What is Zinc?
HighlightsZinc is an essential mineral that is involved in the body’s immune function, growth, development, wound healing and cell production.Zinc deficiency can lead to stunted growth in children and...
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What is the Flexitarian Diet?
HighlightsThe flexitarian diet can be generally defined as a semi-vegetarian diet with moderate intake levels of animal products.The principles of the flexitarian diet are aligned with the 2015 Dietary...
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Transglutaminase: Safety, Function and Benefit to Our Food Supply
With the rise and fall of nutritional trends, scary news about new food ingredients, and rediscoveries of traditionally used ingredients, some common parts of our food supply often fall in and out of...
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Six Tips To Make Your Holiday Meal Planning Easy
A few years ago, I hosted my first Thanksgiving dinner, which turned into a wild scramble in my tiny apartment kitchen while I cooked a meal for seven. On top of all that, my sister-in-law was coming,...
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Understanding Date Labels on Packaged Foods
Our 2019 Consumer Behaviors & Perceptions of Food Waste research found that a top reason consumers throw away food is because it’s become spoiled or stale. This finding lends itself to two...
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Struggling With Late-Night Snacking? Read This.
Late-night snacking has a bad reputation because it’s often associated with less healthy foods, weight gain or a lack of willpower. But many people report engaging in this behavior. So what should you...
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Biodiversity 101
We share our planet with a multitude of other living creatures — plants, animals, insects and microorganisms. Derived from the words “biological diversity,” biodiversity is defined formally as the...
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What is Food Combining?
While most Americans eat meals with a mix of healthful nutrients, a small set of eaters are going in the opposite direction: completely separating out their food groups. They’re following a new trend...
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Consumer Survey on Plant Alternatives to Meat Shows That Nutrition Facts Are...
Consumer Survey on Plant Alternatives to Meat Shows That Nutrition Facts Are More Influential Than the Ingredients ListSurvey Highlights66% of respondents identified as omnivores.Nearly half (49%) have...
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Coronavirus and Safe Food Handling: What You Need to Know
It’s likely you’ve seen the news headlines or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updates about a recently spreading pathogen, the coronavirus. With travel restrictions rising, many...
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The Dirty Dozen 2020: Remembering Our Safety Seven
While many of us are currently trying to plan our grocery store trips carefully and still adhere to our budgets, nutritional goals, and taste buds, hearing about another list shaming us into buying...
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