During National Nutrition Month, quiz yourself on how well you know the protein food group and its importance in your diet. Get 10/10 right and you’ll be “MyPlate Master!.” [wp_quiz id=”2301″]
During National Nutrition Month, quiz yourself on how well you know the dairy group and its importance in your diet. Get 10/10 right and you’ll be “legen-dairy!” [wp_quiz id=”2300″]
If you carrot all about your health, take this quick quiz and see if you can squash the competition with your knowledge of the vegetable group. 0% About how much of your plate should be fruits and vegetables? One quarter One half Three quarters All of it Correct!...
While choosing a rainbow of colors of fruits and vegetables provides a wide variety of phytonutrients that the plants make to protect themselves (and which also benefit our overall health), many people forget that white foods fit into a rainbow of color too! Onion,...
We’re learning more about the important role of the gut microbiome –- the millions of bacteria that populate our intestines, a.k.a. “guts” –- in promoting good health. The gut microbiome contains both helpful and potentially harmful bacteria, and when the...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new health claim for magnesium and its role in reducing the risk of high blood pressure. A health claim can be used on food and supplement label packaging to characterize the relationship between a substance...
