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How to Incorporate Prebiotics Into Your Eating Pattern
Now that you know what prebiotics are (and the positive impact they can have on your health) it's time to talk about incorporating them into your eating pattern. Here are some ideas: Build your meals and snacks around plants, filling 75% of your plate with fruit,...
How well do you know the protein group?
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!”
How well do you know the dairy group?
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!”
What’s Your Veggie IQ?
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.
Do Foods Need to be Colorful to be Healthful?
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,...
What Are Prebiotics?
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 healthy...
A New Health Claim for Magnesium
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...
Explore Diverse Backgrounds – challenge starts January 30
Get Ready for your next team challenge! The Explore Diverse Backgrounds Challenge starts on January 30. In this challenge, learn more about different identities and our own biases. This will help us better understand various challenges that people with different...
Soup’s On!
The beauty of soup is that it’s one of the most versatile, inexpensive meals you can make. All you really need is a handful of ingredients, a pot, and a little imagination. Even if you’re not a whiz in the kitchen, soup is simple to prepare and always appreciated on...
Now that Open Enrollment is over….
For employees of The Arc of Washington County and their eligible family members: Thank you for helping to keep everything on track during our Open Enrollment for the 2023 employee benefits plan year. Now that you’ve made your benefit elections, what happens next?...
How Much Vitamin A Do I Need?
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamin A is in retinol activity equivalents (RAE) to account for the different bioactivities of retinol and provitamin A carotenoids, all of which are converted by the body into retinol. The RDA is set to provide the...
Tips to Rethink Your Drink
The next time you go grocery shopping, read the nutrition labels on the items in your cart to see which ones have the most added sugars. You may be surprised to see the amount of added sugars in some drinks. Sugary drinks are the leading source of added sugars in the...