• Easy Halloween Treats

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:50:53
    Looking for some easy last minute Halloween treats? Try the following recipes and ideas from the best of the web! Creepy Cupcakes If you want to get brains, bats, ghosts or creepy crawlie bugs, why not do it in the form of cupcakes, where things get a little too cute to be scary.

  • The Best and the Worst of the Halloween Candy

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:36:12
    Have you been sneaking the kids Halloween candy? I know I have, especially after our church's Trunk or Treat event got cancelled because of snow...yes snow, in October, in Pennsylvania.

  • November: National American Diabetes Month

    Updated: 2011-10-31 03:50:59
    Are you aware that November is National American Diabetes Month? Chances are you know someone with Diabetes. The recent estimates project that 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes in 2050 unless something is done to stop it in its tracks.

  • Pop Quiz: Can You Identify This Alien Vegetable? [Halloween Special]

    Updated: 2011-10-31 00:17:58
    Good Morning. And Happy Halloween!! What is this Vegetable? Hint: This is not an alien. It actually grows on earth, and even in the US. What you need to know: This is Brassica oleracea Gemmifera, more commonly known as … Brussels sprout. A cousin of the cabbage family, many of us might recall this veggie from [...]

  • 8 Nutrition Tips for Road Warriors

    Updated: 2011-10-30 13:28:13
    Here’s a note we got from Carrie, a Fooducate community member. LOVE your blog and your app! I’m so glad I found you — I don’t follow every “rule” every time, but it is important to me that the vast majority of the food I eat be — err, actually food. I travel for business [...]

  • Study shows what kids eat at McDonald’s

    Updated: 2011-10-29 01:15:27
    This is a guest blog post by Dr. Ayala Laufer-Cahana M.D. Eating out, and especially eating at fast-food restaurants, is considered a risk factor for obesity, poor diet and chronic diseases. Yet eating fast food is a major American habit: At least one quarter of adults eat fast food daily, as do 25 – 30 percent of [...]

  • “The Dirty Dozen”: Fact, Fiction, or a bit of both?

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:22:00
    : , , Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG The Dirty Dozen” : Fact , Fiction , or a bit of

  • How Becoming a Mother Has Changed the Way I Eat

    Updated: 2011-10-28 01:11:11
    This is a guest blog post by Alice Callahan, PhD  I have a PhD in Nutrition. Yet, spending all those years in the classroom and the lab, investigating minute mechanisms of nutrient metabolism, didn’t do any favors for my own diet. In fact, my grad school friends and I joked that our own nutrition was [...]

  • Dinner is a Date with the Doctor 5 Asian Superfoods

    Updated: 2011-10-27 07:48:42
    : Dr Hyman.com Private Practice About Mark For Practitioners Get Dr . Hyman’s Weekly Newsletter DrHyman.com Physician Advocate Educator You are the CEO of your own wellness . You need to take back your health from the disease-care . system Dr Mark Hyman , MD Functional Medicine , Books Supplements Home 7 Keys to Ultrawellness Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact You are here : Home Dinner is a Date with the Doctor : 5 Asian Superfoods Dinner is a Date with the Doctor : 5 Asian Superfoods Tweet Print This Post Email to friend M edicine doesn’t always come in a pill . In fact some of the most powerful medicines are delicious and can be found at your local supermarket or farmacy . Healing foods have been used for centuries in Asia as part of the cuisine . In Asia food and medicine

  • DrHyman.com Dinner is a Date with the Doctor 5 Asian Superfoods Print

    Updated: 2011-10-27 07:48:39
    : DrHyman.com http : drhyman.com Dinner is a Date with the Doctor : 5 Asian Superfoods Posted By Mark Hyman , MD On October 26, 2011 6:07 pm In Articles,UltraWellness Library No Comments 1 M edicine doesn’t always come in a pill . In fact some of the most powerful medicines are delicious and can be found at your local supermarket or farmacy . Healing foods have been used for centuries in Asia as part of the cuisine . In Asia food and medicine are often the same . thing Here are five foods you may never have heard of but can be found at most Asian markets and even places like Whole Foods . Try them . You might be surprised by their unique and extraordinary good taste . And they may help you lose weight , reverse diabetes , lower cholesterol and prevent . cancer Konjac : The Asian Super

  • Mott’s for Tots Bone Health Juice [Nutrition Impostor]

    Updated: 2011-10-26 14:51:42
    Take a look at this juice. You’d think it was some magic elixir that will help your baby grow strong and healthy bones. What your toddler will be getting is an addiction to sweet and cavities. That’s because there are 4 tsp of sugar per cup of this juice, despite the “40% Less sugar” claim. [...]

  • Amazon.com The Blood Sugar Solution The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight Preventing Disease an

    Updated: 2011-10-25 21:48:40
    : : , , : amazon.com . Hello Sign in to get personalized . recommendations New customer Start here Shop Halloween Costumes , Candy More Sponsored by Hershey's Your Amazon.com Today's Deals Gifts Wish Lists Gift Cards Your Digital Items Your Account Help Shop All Departments Search All Departments Amazon Instant Video Appliances Apps for Android Arts , Crafts Sewing Automotive Baby Beauty Books Cell Phones Accessories Clothing Accessories Computers Electronics Gift Cards Grocery Gourmet Food Health Personal Care Home Kitchen Industrial Scientific Jewelry Kindle Store Magazine Subscriptions Movies TV MP3 Downloads Music Musical Instruments Office Products Patio , Lawn Garden Pet Supplies Shoes Software Sports Outdoors Tools Home Improvement Toys Games Video Games Watches Cart Cart Wish List

  • Kraft Milk & Granola Bars. Fortified Candy.

    Updated: 2011-10-25 01:45:20
    Here’s a note we got from a a long time reader of the Fooducate blog, Alison: Just curious to see if you have looked at the new Kraft Milk and Granola bars? I saw these at my local grocer in with the milk! The packaging claims its a good source of fiber, 7g of whole [...]

  • The Eyes Don’t Lie: We Don’t Really Read Nutrition Labels

    Updated: 2011-10-24 15:08:33
    Note: See below reminder for Today’s Food Day Supermarket Tour Here’s an interesting piece of research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association: People don’t really read nutrition labels as much as they report they do. Researchers used sophisticated computer software to track the eye movement of 200 participants who viewed various product [...]

  • Healthcare marketing – a basic guide to Twitter

    Updated: 2011-10-24 02:08:36
    We all know the name, but truth be told, are not all in the know about this microblogging site. So here’s a great read. A compact, 32 page e-book, Twitter Business Guide: Communication and Marketing, written by Jean-Christophe Barre’ and Dr. Andreas Schroeter. It covers everything from what and why and starting out, to understanding [...]

  • Nutrition Labels – US vs Europe. Who’s Better?

    Updated: 2011-10-23 14:12:21
    This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. At the risk of causing some to choke on their French canned duck leg confit (a great product, despite no Nutrition Facts), I’d like to highlight some little-known or underappreciated facts about US nutrition labeling. Yes, US nutrition labels have [...]

  • 9 Things to Know About Surimi [Fake Crab]

    Updated: 2011-10-22 01:11:43
    A Fooducate community member, Sofia, recently emailed us with this question: What is it about “Surimi” (or crab sticks), I often see women who are on protein diet eating surimis, I see them in my sushis, I see them in every supermaket but I really wonder if they are ok to eat? Are they healthy [...]

  • Food Day 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-21 14:17:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Food Day 2011 October 21, 2011 08:17 by Rachel Huber MPH

  • Love Your Body Day: Beautiful Fat Nudes

    Updated: 2011-10-20 05:13:07
    Laurie Says: Today, the National Organization for Women Foundation celebrates its 14th annual Love Your Body Day — a day when women of all sizes, colors, ages and abilities come together to celebrate self-acceptance and to promote positive body image. So, some beautiful fat nudes for Love Your Body Day. .. .. .. .. This [...]

  • Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins

    Updated: 2011-10-19 12:48:50
    Dr Hyman.com Store Private Practice About Mark For Practitioners Get Dr . Hyman’s Weekly Newsletter DrHyman.com Physician Advocate Educator You are the CEO of your own wellness . You need to take back your health from the disease-care . system Dr Mark Hyman , MD Functional Medicine , Books Supplements Home 7 Keys to Ultrawellness Store Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact You are here : Home Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins Tweet Print This Post Email to friend D o vitamins kill people How many people have died from taking vitamins Should you stop your vitamins It depends . To be exact , it depends on the quality of the science , and the very nature of scientific research . It is very hard to know things exactly through

  • DrHyman.com Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins Print

    Updated: 2011-10-19 12:48:44
    DrHyman.com http : drhyman.com Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins Posted By Dr . Hyman Staff On October 18, 2011 3:34 pm In Articles,UltraWellness Library No Comments 1 D o vitamins kill people How many people have died from taking vitamins Should you stop your vitamins It depends . To be exact , it depends on the quality of the science , and the very nature of scientific research . It is very hard to know things exactly through science . The waste bin of science is full of fallen heroes like Premarin , Vioxx and Avandia 2 which alone was responsible for 47,000 excess cardiac deaths since it was introduced in 1999 That brings us to the latest apparent casualty , vitamins . The recent media hype around vitamins is a classic case of drawing the wrong conclusions from good . science

  • Healthcare – shifts are about to hit the fan

    Updated: 2011-10-18 01:45:23
    “The doctor knows best.” No, your consumer actually knows best. And what they want is a mutually dependent, beneficial relationship. So begins a good article in Bloomberg Businessweek called Shift Happens from G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Viton of Maddock Douglas innovation consultancy. Their premise is that at critical times in history, business sectors go [...]

  • Eat Your Medicine Food as Pharmacology

    Updated: 2011-10-15 05:08:17
    : Dr Hyman.com Store Private Practice About Mark For Practitioners Get Dr . Hyman’s Weekly Newsletter DrHyman.com Physician Advocate Educator The body is one integrated system , not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties . The medicine of the future connects . everything Dr Mark Hyman , MD Functional Medicine , Books Supplements Home 7 Keys to Ultrawellness Store Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact You are here : Home Eat Your Medicine : Food as Pharmacology Eat Your Medicine : Food as Pharmacology Tweet Print This Post Email to friend W hat you put at the end of your fork is more powerful medicine than anything you will find at the bottom of a pill bottle . Food is the most powerful medicine available to heal chronic disease , which will account for over 50

  • DrHyman.com Eat Your Medicine Food as Pharmacology Print

    Updated: 2011-10-15 05:08:14
    : DrHyman.com http : drhyman.com Eat Your Medicine : Food as Pharmacology Posted By Mark Hyman , MD On October 14, 2011 4:35 pm In Articles,UltraWellness Library No Comments 1 W hat you put at the end of your fork is more powerful medicine than anything you will find at the bottom of a pill bottle . Food is the most powerful medicine available to heal chronic disease , which will account for over 50 million deaths and cost the global economy 47 trillion by 2030. All you need to do is eat your medicine and think of your grocery store as your . pharmacy The Chinese have known this for centuries A Revelation about Food from My Recent Trip to China Recently I went to Asia to lecture on prevention , wellness , health , nutrition and the new field of nutrigenomics the science of how molecules in

  • Supporting Our Elders' Health Renaissance: An Audio with Macha!

    Updated: 2011-10-15 05:08:03
    Supporting Our Elders' Health Renaissance: An Audio with Macha!

  • Healthy Halloween?

    Updated: 2011-10-14 13:56:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Healthy Halloween October 14, 2011 07:56 by Rachel Huber

  • Health Transcending Borders, Language, and Culture

    Updated: 2011-10-14 04:14:48
    In 2002 I partnered with Field to Plate  to bring 30 nutrition and foodservice professionals to Challans, France to look at an innovative school lunch program designed to tackle France’s growing childhood obesity epidemic head-on. Our American group stared in disbelief as a roomful of kindergartners enjoyed a leisurely 45 minute lunch of 3 courses [...]

  • Improving the healthcare experience: an idea from GE

    Updated: 2011-10-10 23:11:23
    There must be a better way. While these words are being used in the context of GE’s desire to help improve approaches to mammography and breast cancer, I think the majority of us would agree they apply to the healthcare experience in general. GE is inviting women to share their mammography and/or breast cancer experience [...]

  • How Can We Ensure the Next Generation’s Wellbeing of Health and Sustainability?

    Updated: 2011-10-10 15:58:36
    If you’ve ever spent even 5 minutes in the same room with me, you find out pretty quickly that Italy runs through my veins. Or more accurately, through my heart and my stomach. While technically I’m 100% Irish, after living in Florence for 2 years and eating my way through the rest of the country, [...]

  • Once Again, Behaviorally Based Treatments Found Effective For Weight Loss

    Updated: 2011-10-07 14:29:26
    , Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Once Again , Behaviorally Based Treatments Found

  • Birthing Sophia: An Audio with Macha and Amanda

    Updated: 2011-10-07 06:27:43
    Birthing Sophia: An Audio with Macha and Amanda

  • Women Going Wild

    Updated: 2011-10-06 05:52:35
    Laurie and Debbie say: Turkey has been having a lot of trouble with fan violence at and after soccer matches, and one of the solutions being tried is all-woman audiences. Travis at Think Progress shared this brief video of a local Turkish soccer game attended by some 40,000 women and children, along with some thoughts [...]

  • Insight for healthcare marketers: the benefits of social media

    Updated: 2011-10-06 02:00:30
    Socialcast created this infographic visualizing a social media study conducted by the Center for Marketing at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on the use of social media in Fortune 500 companies. The majority of companies studied found social media, e.g. blogging, social networking and online video, to be successful. Even as far back 2007, a majority [...]

  • Photo of the Week

    Updated: 2011-10-04 06:39:44
    This is an “extract” from Familiar Men. It’s a section of a larger photo that I used as a small individual image for part of the book. .. ..

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