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Food Allergy Foes: Equipping Your Little One to Explain Food Allergies When You Aren’t Nearby
Food allergies in adults can be challenging, but food allergies in children take on a whole new level of both challenge and trepidation. Because our children can’t be with us all the time, we have to find ways to make sure they are safe and protected even when we aren’t nearby. Help your child become […]
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A Fresh Start: Starting Over After Making Diet Mistakes
It’s happened to us all at some point: you’re doing great following a healthy eating plan, then a couple of poor choices catapult you into a downward spiral to the point that you feel totally discouraged about your healthy eating plans. Whether you follow a specific eating plan as a personal choice, by medical mandate, […]
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Banning Processed Foods without Living at the Grocery Store: A How-To Guide
Whatever their views on other foods, all experts can agree upon the benefits of choosing whole foods over processed foods. When you fill your diet with real foods you are getting greater nutrient levels and fewer chemicals and undesirable ingredients. But even with all the benefits a whole foods based diet can give you, their […]
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Four Surefire Ways to Make Cooking at Home Easy Breezy
Eating at home offers plenty of benefits: more fresh ingredients, less chemicals and additives in your meal, budget savings, and more. Yet even with all of those benefits, cooking at home can seem unappealing sometimes because of the perceived time commitment it can take. While it’s true that elaborate gourmet meals can be a time […]
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Bean Ban: Evaluating the Popular Paleo Ban on Beans
Usually a good rule of thumb in deciding what foods to eat is if something is a whole, real food it’s healthy to eat, and processed foods should be avoided. While it is definitely still true that processed foods should be avoided, recent diet trends such as Paleo and Whole30 have caused us to question […]
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Five Things You Can Learn from the Mediterranean Diet
Diet trends come and go, but one way of eating that is perennially recognized for its healthy ways is the Mediterranean diet. Unlike some diets that require you to purchase expensive supplements or follow complex rules, the Mediterranean diet is really more a way of eating than it is a prescribed diet. Nutritionists and physicians […]
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Health Trend Investigation: Everything You Need to Know about FODMAP Diets
Perhaps you have seen the funny looking acronym pop up on your Pinterest homepage, or maybe you’ve had friends or family members mention their efforts to stay away from high FODMAP foods. But beyond a vague familiarity with FODMAP, most of us aren’t exactly sure what FODMAP is. Read on to find out what the […]
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Breaking the Sugar Addiction: Why Tapering Off May Be Your Key to Finally Succeeding at Sugar Detox
By now we all know refined sugars are bad for more than just our waistlines. Sugar consumption is a major contributing factor to a multitude of diseases, inflammation, skin problems, decreased energy, and much more. Yet with all the negative effects sugar can bring upon us, it can still be hard to break the habit. […]
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Brrr! Top Tips for Making Fabulous Freezer Meals
Regardless of how much you may enjoy cooking, there are times when it is nice to be able to just open your freezer and pull out a fully prepared meal that needs only to be reheated before you and your family can enjoy it. A freezer stocked with plenty of meals doesn’t just happen without […]
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Breakfast Foods You Should Be Eating
Three Foods that Aren’t on Your Breakfast Table…But Should Be! Tradition defines much of what foods we choose for breakfast. Foods like bagels, pancakes, processed meats, and more are all parts of a conventional breakfast. Yet just because such foods are a common staple on many breakfast tables, it does not necessarily mean they are […]
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