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Kellogg’s Recalls Frosted & Unfrosted Mini-Wheats Cereal

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100 Calories Serving of Mini Wheat Cereal in Milk

On October 8, 2012, the US FDA issued a press release announcing the voluntary recall by Kellogg’s of its Frosted & Unfrosted Mini-Wheats Cereal with the letters KB, AP or FK before or after the “Best If Used Before” date on the box. The cereal may be contaminated with metal ... more

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Steaming Vegetables

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Italian Vegetable Stand

Fresh vegetables have numerous essential vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. While most vegetables can be eating raw, usually they are cooked by boiling, baking or steaming. Boiling vegetables leaches many nutrients that are discarded with the water. Steaming is a great way to cook most vegetables. Because steaming is gentler ... more

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Med Diet and Diabetes

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Italian Vegetable Stand

More and more scientific studies are confirming a balanced Mediterranean style diet can reverse or prevent Type-II (non-insulin dependent) diabetes. The emphasis is on eating an abundance of whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, and limiting or eliminating highly processed foods high in refined grains (wheat flour) and sugar (white, ... more

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Let Food Be Your Medicine

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Ingredients for Stewed Bell Peppers

“Let food be your medicine. Your medicine shall be your food.” Hippocrates Dietary supplements; vitamins, minerals and herbs is a $30 billion per year virtually unregulated industry in the United States. It is a great example of deregulation at its worst. Vitamins, minerals and herbs are natural, in some cases ... more

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2,000 Calorie Lunch

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Panini

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Homemade Italian Sub Sandwich

Pane is Italian for bread and Panino is Italian for small bread or roll or sandwiches made using a roll or bun rather than sliced bread. The plural is panini which refers to a toasted or grilled sandwich in the United States. They have become so popular in the U.S. ... more

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Alfredo Sauce

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Homemade Pasta Alfredo Primavera

Mmmm. Fettuccine Alfredo. So simple, so easy and quick to prepare, but so delicious, and so high in calories and saturated fat. The white, cream based sauce Americans call Alfredo is less than 100 years old. Original Alfredo sauce didn’t use cream? Just butter, Parmesan cheese, and black pepper. It ... more

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Not So Healthy Salmon

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Salmon Burger Meal

Salmone. The king of fish when it comes to omega-3 fatty acids. Americans are encourage to eat more seafood especially salmon several times per week. Recent supermarket adds promote fresh, healthy, farm raised Atlantic salmon. Prices range from $4.99 to $8.99 per pound. Hardly a week goes by that some ... more

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Skip the Ramon Noodle Soups

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Bowl of Ramon Noodle Soup

They are quick, inexpensive and packed with sodium. One brand boasts in large type on the front of the package that their soups have zero grams of trans fat. On the back of the package in small type it states you can reduce the amount of sodium by simple using ... more

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Old Rules, New Rules?

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Doctor Mehmet Oz. Thanks to Oprah Winfrey he has become the go to authority on dieting especially for overweight and obese women. He promotes dietary supplements, foods and exercise that target problem areas and reveals “secrets” long kept from the American public by physicians, dietitians and experts with titles that ... more

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