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Enticing Young Eaters to Eat Fruits & Vegetables
Good nutrition is essential for a young child’s optimal growth and development. Specifically, maintaining a diet that’s rich in fruit and vegetables and establishing healthy eating habits earlier in life can decrease your child’s...
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How to Lower Your Risk for Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal or colon cancer accounts for one-third of all cancer-related deaths in the United States, affecting men and women of all racial and ethnic groups, especially in people...
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Maintaining a Healthy Weight for Cancer Prevention
Many studies show convincing evidence that there is a strong link between excess body fat and cancer risk. The mechanism of how excess body fat increases cancer is...
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How to Eat an Anti-Inflammatory, Immune-Boosting Diet
It’s no mystery that there are many foods with proven benefits for your immune system. When you consume these foods, it helps support our body’s acute inflammatory response (the...
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What Are Antioxidants?
Terms like antioxidants and free radicals tend to be thrown around a lot, especially in the cancer area, where these compounds are supposed to help prevent or fight...
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The Facts about Fiber
Fiber is a type of carbohydrate and should be one of your favorite parts of a cancer-protective diet. There are two types, soluble fiber, and insoluble fiber, and...
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Pairing Your Foods To Get More Nutrition
Did you know that pairing different foods together can help increase the amount of nutrition you get from foods? Here are simple ways of getting more of these...
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What Can I Eat on a Bland Diet?
My doctor told me to go on a bland diet after surgery. What can I actually eat?
When prescribed a bland diet, people often feel doomed to culinary purgatory. ...
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Top 3 Questions I’m Asked As An Oncology RD
Alexandra Rothwell is a registered dietitian, with a specialization in oncology nutrition. Currently in private practice in the Bay Area, while she was in New York Alexandra worked...
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Ask Esther: Lowering Cholesterol
Lifestyle changes are a terrific way to address high cholesterol. As a registered dietitian-nutritionist, I’ll walk you through some things you can do. But keep in mind that...
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Frozen Vegetables: Is Thawing Okay For Nutrient Retention?
Many people are concerned about getting the most nutrients from their food – and rightly so. Vegetables are chockful of nutrients so it’s important to get your daily...
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Ask Esther: BPAs & Food Storage
Can I use plastic containers to store food? I heard it is toxic.
One of the components of some plastic containers, as well as the lining of some cans,...
