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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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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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Tips for Preventing Stomach Bloating

Tips for Preventing Stomach Bloating

The consequences of eating nutritionally dubious foods are pretty obvious, even to those who know little about proper dieting or nutrition. Consuming a steady diet of junk food is a surefire way to increase your risk of hypertension, heart disease ...

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Preventing Food from Going Bad

Preventing Food from Going Bad

Care to guess how much food Americans throw out every year? The answer is probably much larger than you might think. According to the National Resources Defense Council, the average American discards a whopping 25 percent of the food and ...

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Making Cookies A Healthier Snack

When it comes to snack foods, America has had a long love affair with cookies. In 2012, shoppers in the United States bought over $1 billion dollars worth of Oreos alone. Like so many other popular foods, however, cookies are ...

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How to Prevent Indigestion

There’s a good chance that, after eating a particularly large meal in a short amount of time, you felt all but incapacitated afterwards. You don’t have to mimic the accomplishments of Joey Chestnut to develop indigestion (for those not aware, ...

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Ingredients for a Healthier Smoothie

Fruit smoothies are usually considered to be very good for the body, providing valuable nutrients while adding only a limited number of calories to your diet. Unfortunately, many smoothie mixes are chocked full of an ingredient that is the exact ...

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