nutrition
What To Do When Your Toddler Won’t Eat
When it comes to eating habits, toddlers can be hard to predict. Some days they may not eat much. Other days it may seem they’re eating all day long. They may want one food every day for weeks, and...
What You Can Do to Maintain Your Health
A lot of factors play a role in staying healthy. In turn, good health can decrease your risk of developing certain diseases or conditions. These include heart disease, stroke, some cancers, and inj...
Overeating in Children and Teens
Sometimes it may seem your child or teen eats all the time. It may seem they are eating lots of snacks between meals or overeating at meals. How do you know if this behavior is something to worry a...
Nutrition: How to Make Healthier Food Choices
A healthy diet has a many benefits, including maintaining your desired weight. It also can lower your cholesterol and prevent certain health conditions. A healthy diet fuels your body and gives you...
Healthy Ways to Gain Weight If You’re Underweight
Weight loss is a serious issue in the United States. Consumers constantly see advertisements and news reports on trendy diets, flashy products, and magic pills promising to help them lose weight. G...
Dietary Fat: What’s Good and What’s Bad
Certain fats should be part of your diet. But you should make sure you’re eating good fats instead of bad fats. Your body uses fat for energy. It builds nerve tissue and hormones and controls infla...
Changing Your Diet: Choosing Nutrient-rich Foods
Choose a diet made of nutrient-rich foods. Nutrient-rich (or nutrient-dense) foods are low in sugar, sodium, starches, and bad fats. They contain a lot of vitamins and minerals and few calories. Yo...
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Diet
Normal, healthy kidneys remove waste from the blood. If you have chronic kidney disease, your kidneys are not working as well as they should. They have trouble removing the waste. This causes the w...
