Ginger-Prune Muffins
These tasty breakfast muffins are flavorful and filled with fiber from whole-wheat flour, oats, prunes, raisins and carrots. Baked with Greek yogurt and applesauce in place of oil or butter, they are lower in fat…
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Key Lime Mousse
This raw, vegan mousse is like a deconstructed Key lime pie. It’s made with fresh lime juice, avocados and banana and placed atop a raw crust of coconut, walnuts and dates.
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Livestock Antibiotics: Not Just Another Food Fight
Prophylactic use of antibiotics in animal feed helps livestock stay healthy and grow faster, but it also may speed the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria that, according to the Centers for Disease Control, kill…
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Organic Goes Mainstream
Until recently, shopping for organic foods required a special trip to a natural foods store or farmers market. As interest in organics grew, organic foods became widely available in conventional supermarkets, but…
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Pickled Grapes Recipe
These slightly sweet and sour grapes (flavored with cinnamon ) are good on their own or enjoyed as part of a cheese plate, on salads or in a cocktail.
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Renée Mitchell Simpson: “Green Is the New Black”
Through her private practice, Renee Simpson, RDN, counsels predominantly African American women because, "with an overwhelming four out of five African American women being obese, I found this to be the niche I…
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Sosaties
This popular South African kebab is commonly served at braais, or barbecues. Meat seasoned in a spicy apricot-curry marinade is skewered with apricots and onions before being cooked on a hot grill. Although…
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Spectacular Stone Fruits
Nothing says summer quite like the sweet, juicy flavors of stone fruits. Whether you prefer peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots or cherries : or any of their hybrids : act quickly: Unlike apples or pears, fresh…
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Two Grand (Version 2.1.8)
Synopsis of the App Two Grand is designed to help track your food intake in less than 3 minutes per day. The app encourages weight loss hopefuls to follow community members who have already met their goal weight to…
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Education and Nutrition Informatics
My experience with nutrition informatics began after I graduated from school and started working in a hospital. All the pharmacists were using handheld devices called personal digital assistants, or PDAs, to access…
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The Formula for Healthy Snacks
When planning out your day’s snacks , try to always focus on pairing your food groups. What do I mean? Take a look at this super-simple formula. I promise you it is foolproof and, when practiced with portion control,…
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Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls: Easter Bunny’s Delight
The Easter Bunny will be here before we know it, and that makes me think of two things: carrots and Easter Egg Hunts. Easter in my house growing up always meant indulging in all the sweet goodies we had given up for…
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Diffusing the Benefits of Essential Oils
For centuries, essential oils have been used to treat a variety of conditions, from lack of mental clarity and alertness to depression and indigestion. Today, practitioners employ essential oils using a combination…
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The Rasp Grater: From Woodshop Tool to Kitchen Essential
When brothers Richard and Jeff Grace invented the Microplane ® rasp in 1990, they weren’t envisioning it in the hands of cooks. The long, thin tool with sharp ridges was designed to mount on a hacksaw for smoothing…
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DIY Kitchen: Tortillas Step-by-Step
To make Basic Flour Tortillas , first combine your dry ingredients: whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour and salt. Next, add oil and stream in water, a little at a time, until water is absorbed and dough ball begins…
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Doro Wot
Popular in the East African country of Ethiopia, doro wot is a dish with a wonderful blend of peppers and aromatic spices. Although ground spices can be used, the whole spices present a much more robust flavor.
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Elevate (Version 1.15)
Synopsis of the App Elevate is a daily brain training game designed to improve key cognitive skills that may help improve productivity, self-confidence and more.
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Fares of Faith: Celebrating Seder
Steeped in family togetherness and traditional foods among the Jewish community, Passover celebrates the Israelites' liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt. Seder dinner occurs on the evening of the 15th day of…
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Honey-Harissa Roasted Carrots
With a complex flavor that delivers the heat, harissa is a North African hot chile paste that transforms carrots into an adventurous side dish. Carrots are massaged with a sweet and spicy honey-harissa, then roasted…
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Lark (Version 1.3)
Synopsis of the App Lark acts as a personal coach to help you move more, sleep better, eat healthier and stress less. Using sensors in select smartphones, Lark tracks your activity, sleep and eating data and…
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MyFuelUp (Version 1.05)
Synopsis of the App MyFuelUp is an automatic diet generator and tracker designed especially for fitness enthusiasts.
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Not Always Better Together: Herbs, Spices and Medication Interactions
A teaspoon here, a dash there … For people who regularly take medications, could drugs interact with the spices and herbs used in recipes?
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SeAnne Safaii: Diabetic Support in Virtual Reality
When SeAnne Safaii was in high school, a coach gave her poor nutrition information, which ultimately hurt her athletic performance. That experience, she says, eventually led to a career in dietetics. "That bad…
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Unpretentious Horseradish Leaves a Tongue-Tingling Impression
Since ancient times, horseradish has been prized for its medicinal and gastronomic qualities. A few centuries ago, central Europe was the hotbed of horseradish consumption. Today, horseradish is grown in the U.S. :…
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