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Six Food Swaps for Healthier Meals

Six Food Swaps for Healthier Meals

Cutting unhealthy food out of your diet is a goal that is often much easier said than done. Compounding this problem is that many popular foods aren’t especially great for your waistline, containing sizable amounts of sodium, sugar and calories. ...

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Why Are More Young Adults Suffering Strokes?

Why Are More Young Adults Suffering Strokes?

When looking at the top causes of death in the United States, it becomes clear that older adults and senior citizens bear the brunt of many notorious ailments. This is especially true of strokes, which claimed nearly 130,000 lives in ...

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Five Practical Alternatives to Halloween Candy

Five Practical Alternatives to Halloween Candy

There’s no other time during the year where candy is more in-demand than Halloween. Americans spent well north of $2 billion on Halloween candy every year, a figure that continues to rise. The sweet taste of various candy products make ...

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Are You at Risk of Salmonella Poisoning?

Are You at Risk of Salmonella Poisoning?

When most of us go to the grocery store, we tend not to worry if the food we buy can make us sick. Many shoppers associate contaminated food with developing nations, and don’t consider food poisoning to be all that ...

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Olestra: A Controversial Ingredient

Olestra: A Controversial Ingredient

As popular as they may be, potato chips can best be described as a guilty pleasure. In order to make a chip that is amenable to the taste buds, food producers tend to pour globs of salt, cholesterol and fat ...

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Can Drinking Coffee Protect Against Depression?

Can Drinking Coffee Protect Against Depression?

There is no denying that coffee plays an indispensable role in the lives of millions of Americans. According to the National Coffee Association, 63 percent of adult Americans drank coffee daily in 2012. This figure rose to 75 percent when ...

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Rethinking Dairy: Does it Need to Be in Your Diet?

Rethinking Dairy: Does it Need to Be in Your Diet?

You’ve almost certainly heard about the benefits of dairy products. The major proponents of dairy aren’t limited to just doctors and various publications; in its 2010 dietary guidelines, the US Department of Agriculture’s encouraged all Americans over age 9 to ...

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Going Gluten Free: What You Should Know

Going Gluten Free: What You Should Know

Like ever-shifting trends in fashion and popular music, the American public is no stranger to new fad diets. Over the past several decades, substances such as fat, red meat and carbohydrates have been forbidden or strictly limited by certain diets, ...

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