• What Is It Like to Get a Mammogram?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 17:31:01
    If you have never gotten a mammogram, you may be a little anxious about the process. Here is what it is like and what you can expect during your first mammogram. I remember the first time that I got a mammogram.

  • Valentine Breakfast in Bed

    Updated: 2012-01-31 14:35:55
    Breakfast in bed is a small luxury that can make a big impact for your valentine. Start the day off right with a celebratory breakfast. Here are are a couple of ideas. One is sweet and the other is savory Choose the one that works best for you and your love. Whipped cream is optional.

  • About that Plastic Used to Package Your Food

    Updated: 2012-01-31 00:47:00
    Plastic is everywhere:  In our homes, in our schools, in our kids’ toys, even in the pens we inadvertently chew on. Plastic is also in landfills. About 85% is never recycled! Plastic is how the food industry packages a sizeable percentage of our food. Have you ever noticed the markings on the packaged foods you [...]

  • Objective Assessment

    Updated: 2012-01-30 13:53:00
    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 Objective Assessment January 30, 2012 07:53 by Erica

  • Carbs: The Good, the Bad, and the Debatable

    Updated: 2012-01-30 00:07:05
    A recent article in the Chicago Tribune, Good Carb, Bad Carb, caught our eye because of its title “Good Carbs, Bad Carbs”. Carbohydrates, to remind you are one of the three macronutrients making up almost all foods, alongside with fat and protein. Over the years both fats and carbs have been vilified and exonerated, to the [...]

  • Enoch Arden, Michi and Jackie

    Updated: 2012-01-29 07:49:15
    Laurie says: Kyoko Michishita was one of the women I worked with on my Women of Japan project. She is a noted feminist and does strong anti-military work.  Michi is also a well known translator. .. .. She recently published a Japanese translation of Tennyson’s Enoch Arden,  a remarkable accomplishment, particularly given the language differences. [...]

  • Food Safety: Even Salt Gets Recalled by the FDA!

    Updated: 2012-01-29 00:21:54
    This is a guest blog post by Olivia Ho, M.S., R.D. It’s only January but we’re already seeing a long list of food recalls on the FDA’s website foodsafety.gov. Here are some examples, thankfully non are too major: - M.E. Thompson’s deli turkey and ham - Winn-Dixie Stores’s bean sprouts - Coyote Joes Shredded Taco Cheese [...]

  • Three Easy and Healthy Superbowl Snacks for the Whole Family

    Updated: 2012-01-28 00:04:40
    This is a guest blog post by Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD Getting your fruits and vegetables may be the last thing on your mind on Superbowl Sunday. Don’t give it another thought. These winning munchies are so delicious that your family and friends may forget they’re good for you, too. Serve the dips with baked [...]

  • New Cure for Chronic Disease Discovered

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:37:56
    Dr Hyman.com 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 Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact You are here : Home New Cure for Chronic Disease Discovered New Cure for Chronic Disease Discovered Tweet Print This Post Email to friend L ast year my friend , Chelsea Clinton recommended I read a book by the former head of the National Health Service in Great Britain called Turning the World Upside Down about what we can learn from poor countries in the developing world about

  • DrHyman.com New Cure for Chronic Disease Discovered Print

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:37:54
    DrHyman.com http : drhyman.com New Cure for Chronic Disease Discovered Posted By Mark Hyman , MD On January 27, 2012 2:23 pm In Articles,UltraWellness Library No Comments 1 L ast year my friend , Chelsea Clinton recommended I read a book by the former head of the National Health Service in Great Britain called Turning the World Upside Down 2 about what we can learn from poor countries in the developing world about putting patients and communities at the center of health care , not doctors and . hospitals It inspired me to find ways to build community based solutions for the epidemic of chronic lifestyle driven disease an epidemic that now kills twice as many around the world every year as infectious disease . Chronic disease is a slow motion disaster , a tsunami of suffering whose global

  • Can the Psychology of Eating Change Your Metabolism

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:37:53
    Dr Hyman.com Private Practice About Mark For Practitioners Get Dr . Hyman’s Weekly Newsletter DrHyman.com Physician Advocate Educator The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet food is the most powerful medicine to heal Chronic . illness Dr Mark Hyman , MD Functional Medicine , Books Supplements Home 7 Keys to Ultrawellness Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact You are here : Home Can the Psychology of Eating Change Your Metabolism Can the Psychology of Eating Change Your Metabolism Tweet Print This Post Email to friend W e all know that good nutrition is one of the greatest keys to optimal health . What’s not so obvious is that often times , our relationship with food gets in the way of healthy eating . Far too many people face the challenges of

  • DrHyman.com Can the Psychology of Eating Change Your Metabolism Print

    Updated: 2012-01-27 22:37:50
    DrHyman.com http : drhyman.com Can the Psychology of Eating Change Your Metabolism Posted By Mark Hyman , MD On January 27, 2012 1:36 pm In Articles,UltraWellness Library No Comments 1 W e all know that good nutrition is one of the greatest keys to optimal health . What’s not so obvious is that often times , our relationship with food gets in the way of healthy eating . Far too many people face the challenges of overeating , binge eating , unhappy body image , excess weight , and more . And a great number of people , despite eating the right diet , may be losing the benefits of their good nutritional habits by making some very common mistakes that a few key lessons in eating psychology can powerfully . correct Have you noticed how so many of us know what to eat , know about good nutrition

  • Sixty Percent of Consumers Worldwide Are Confused by Food Labels

    Updated: 2012-01-27 00:51:37
    Nielsen recently surveyed over 25,000 people around the globe to learn about healthy eating trends. The marketing research firm published a report earlier this week,with some interesting findings. The most interesting for us is how confused people are by nutrition labels, with 6 out of 10 people saying they don’t always understand the nutritional pros and [...]

  • Fuel for Your Car, Fuel for Your Body?

    Updated: 2012-01-26 13:21:07
    This picture was taken at a Shell Gas Station in the San Francisco area. Just a friendly reminder from the convenience store inside to fuel up on sugars and fats as you’re fueling your car. While automobiles can consume only one type of fuel, humans are a much more complex machine. We can ingest a wider variety [...]

  • Insight for healthcare marketers: rise of the e-patient

    Updated: 2012-01-25 14:51:03
    Good presentation from Pew Internet Project Director Lee Rainie to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, CA, on understanding social networking and online health information seeking. You can view the presentation here. Key takeaways: • new social operating system: networked individualism • impacts include: “second opinions, allies and complements for care delivery, providers assessed [...]

  • Paula Deen Queen of Disease or Healing Food Fairy

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:36:48
    : Dr Hyman.com Private Practice About Mark For Practitioners Get Dr . Hyman’s Weekly Newsletter DrHyman.com Physician Advocate Educator All medicine comes down to this : Find out what’s bugging you get rid of it . Find out what you need get it . The body does the . rest Dr Mark Hyman , MD Functional Medicine , Books Supplements Home 7 Keys to Ultrawellness Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact You are here : Home Paula Deen : Queen of Disease or Healing Food Fairy Paula Deen : Queen of Disease or Healing Food Fairy Tweet Print This Post Email to friend I n a spate of recent media appearances , Paula Deen , the unapologetic queen of culinary excess and indulgence would have us believe that she didn’t eat herself into type 2 diabetes that it was just Russian Roulette . Genes do

  • Instead of New Pop-Tart Flavors, How About Pop-Tarts 2.0?

    Updated: 2012-01-25 00:58:18
    It’s always interesting to see what commercials will air during “The Biggest Loser”. Last night, Pop Tarts grabbed our attention with their new “Wildlicious” line of toaster pastries: Buckle up and unwrap a fusion of fruit flavor. Cherry, orange, strawberry, raspberry and blueberry-flavored fruit filling. Bright yellow frosting, orange icing drizzle and multi-colored sprinkles on [...]

  • Strange Fruit. What’s a Persimmon?

    Updated: 2012-01-23 00:27:25
    The recipe we posted yesterday included persimmons. A comment by one of the readers bluntly asked – “This might sound goofy, but what are persimmons?” Here’s the answer: Persimmons are a fruit that can be likened to a cross between a tomato and an orange. The fruit, when ripe, is very sweet. But if you [...]

  • Superbowl Snacks: Persimmon-Avocado Nachos [Recipe]

    Updated: 2012-01-22 13:39:04
    To counter our processed-food bashing and ensuing depression, we like to showcase healthy, tasty recipes here on Fooducate. With the Superbowl coming up, you may be tempted to Dorito-fy your household. STOP! We want to show you how easy and fun it is to prepare finger foods that are both tasty and healthy. If you’d [...]

  • Obesity Prevention Efforts Finally Paying Off?

    Updated: 2012-01-20 14:33:00
    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 Obesity Prevention Efforts Finally Paying Off January

  • NYC Decides It's Time To Scare

    Updated: 2012-01-13 13:52:00
    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 NYC Decides It's Time To Scare January 13, 2012 07:52 by

  • Physical Activity: Stop the Decline Before It Happens!

    Updated: 2012-01-09 13:44:00
    : 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 Physical Activity : Stop the Decline Before It Happens

  • USDA Releases Online Nutrition SuperTracker

    Updated: 2012-01-06 14:27:00
    Check out the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) new www.ChooseMyPlate.gov website and SuperTracker tool. Create a profile; set goals; track your weight, food, and physical activity; and run reports to see how you are progressing.  Give it a try for a few days and let us know what you think! Which features are helpful? Which features do you like better on other lifestyle tracking websites or apps?

  • New Year’s Resolutions: Lose Fat Hatred

    Updated: 2012-01-04 05:10:29
    Laurie and Debbie say: Happy New Year! We’ve been big fans of s.e. smith at This Ain’t Livin’ for a long time, so it’s great to have such a timely post to write about. In the maelstrom of New Year’s resolutions, she wants us all to remember: Fat hatred kills. It kills every day in [...]

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