Nutrition

Healthy Servings: Recipes Galore

Cooking Tips

• Cooking Low-fat With 12 Healthy Food Substitutions
  In most baked foods, you can decrease fat content by 25 to 50 percent. Try these tips.
• Putting the Spice Back into Your Cooking
  Deep in the corner of every kitchen is a spice rack filled with jars of forgotten herbs and spices.
  • Herbs and their uses
  • Spices and their uses
• Tips for a Healthy Barbeque
  Barbeques are a fun part of the summer months and a great way to spend time with family and friends.
• Olive Oil
  Oil really can be good for you!
• Great Grilling: Your Personal Pizza Oven
  Use your backyard BBQ to grill up a great pie that won't pack on the pounds.
• Cholesterol Facts
  The good, the bad and the ugly.
• The Truth About Trans Fats
  What makes trans fats different from other fats?
• Avoid Trans Fats
  There are benefits to eating some fats; learn which fats to avoid.
• Fat is Back
  Two local doctors write the book on dieting myths.
• Avoid an Attack by a Killer Tomato
  Ground meat scares make us all pay more attention to food safety. But what about those side dishes?
• 12 Ways to Trimness During the Holidays
  Here are 12 ways to make it to the new year.

Tips for Dining Out

• Dining Out the Guilt-Free Way
  Dining out doesn't necessarily mean playing Russian roulette with your diet.
  • Italian food
  • Chinese food
  • Mexican food

Portion Sizes and Recommendations

• The Mighty Food Guide Pyramid
  Here are the USDA recommendations for a day of healthy eating.
• A Little of This and More of That?
  Our forefathers probably never said, "Super Size it," but are portion sizes today really any different than they were years ago?
• Take 5
  Do you eat five servings of fruits and vegetables each and every day? Be honest. Cherry soda doesn't count and neither do potato chips.
• Breakfast: Are You a Champion?
  If your mother told you that breakfast was the most important meal of the day, she wasn't wrong about that, either. 
• Healthy Breakfast in a Hurry? No Problem.
   Tips for breakfast on the go.
• Tower of Power: Drink to Your Health
  When it comes to seniors, the well-known food pyramid may need some fortifying. 

Grocery Tips

• Can You Afford to Eat Healthfully?
  The good news is that it's possible to eat more nutritiously without breaking your food budget.
• Eating Economics
  Try these tips for saving at the supermarket.
• Eating on the Cheap: Bean Cuisine
  Adding beans and bean dishes to your family's meals is one of the easiest, healthiest and most delicious ways to stretch your food budget.

Kids and Teens

• Teens: Skipping Breakfast and Eating Fast Food
  As teens enter adulthood they are more likely to skip breakfast and consume more fast food, causing the risk of weight gain.
• Please Pass the Vegetables
  Getting kids to eat healthy foods. Plus, hear what the kids have to say about it.
• Teens and Energy Drinks
  Although they can replenish some important nutrients lost during vigorous exercise, energy drinks, parents should give energy drinks a second thought.

Specific Foods

• All About Beans
  The versatile bean has its advantages.
• Cereal Scores Again
  Healthy cereals have long been touted as a great way to start the day.
• Chocolate Addicts, Unite!
  Need the sweet stuff? Here's a healthy excuse.
• Healthy Pickings
  The turning leaves signal prime time for one of Rhode Island's best products—apples.
• Oh, Nuts!
  They're tiny, tasty and tempting—and you can't eat just one.
• Pizza Parties
  Pizza—a health food? That's happy news to the average American who devours 46 slices a year.
• Dud Spuds
  The humble potato—a dinner table staple around the world—has a nasty little secret: those green spots can make you sick.
• Tea Time
  Not only does tea provide inner warmth on frosty New England days, it may also ward off disease. Plus, tea trivia.
• Water, Water Everywhere
  And not a drop that's fit to drink. With municipal systems reporting that there's something funny in the pipes, more and more people are turning to the bottled version.

Nutrition for Women

• PMS Pill?
  For women who suffer from PMS, a daily dose of Tums®, those tried-and-true chewables for sour stomach, may also be the ticket to relief from premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
• Pregnancy and the Vegetarian
  What you need to know to ensure a healthy pregnancy on a vegetarian diet.
• Morning Sickness and Nutrition
  An unpleasant side-effect of pregnancy, morning sickness can leave you in need of nutrients.
• Pregnancy and High-Risk Foods
  What foods to avoid to ensure the health of you and your child.