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While everyone is prepping for the holidays, it’s time for nutrition and health educators to think about what comes next – New Year’s resolutions. Year after year, people make – and fail to keep – diet-related resolutions. They usually vow to completely change how they...

Eggs are a fun and traditional Easter staple. Did you know that at one time they were banned during Lent and became a treat to eat on Easter? Eggs also symbolize fertility and renewal. They are associated with the end of winter and the coming...

We haven’t had butter in our house for over eight months. We’ve made a conscious effort to do this. It all started while reading and learning about the Mediterranean Diet. Traditionally people that live in this region of the world eat lots of fruits and...

Easter is the second biggest candy holiday in the United States.* According to the National Confectioners Association (NCA), over 120 million pounds of Easter candy is purchased each year. This includes 16 billion jelly beans, 90 million chocolate bunnies, and an untold number of marshmallow...

The other day, I roasted a 15-pound turkey, but I was only serving two people. What was I thinking? Actually it’s a simple answer. Before Thanksgiving last year, our grocery store offered whole turkeys at $0.37 per pound if you bought $35 worth of groceries....

Things change. I looked around the dinner table this past holiday and realized that things were different. We had a wonderful group of people, both family members and friends… all people that we enjoyed spending time with in the past. Nothing about that has changed....

According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 9.3% of all Americans have diabetes. That's over 29 million people! Over the years, my team and I have devoted ourselves to creating materials that can help you help people...

Let’s talk about prunes. I know, I know! This is not a topic that most people would consider for dinner conversation. But I do have a few prune stories. We'll start with a trip I took. A couple years ago, my mom and my sisters...

There’s an old saying that you shouldn’t eat oysters in months that don’t have an “R” in them? That would be May, June, July and August. The idea behind this may have originally been sound. These months are summer months when coastal waters where shellfish...

They're orange and you eat them with lots of marshmallows at Thanksgiving. What else do you know about one of the worlds most nutritious vegetables? Take this sweet potato quiz to find out. True or False? A sweet potato can be eaten raw. A sweet...

Everywhere you look this time of year, someone is suggesting a resolution (or two or three) that you should keep. I’m going to chime in on this, too, with four really simple things that you can do to help keep your family healthy. Invest in...

Have I mentioned that I just updated all of our comprehensive wellness programs? Because I have, and I’m really proud of what my team and I have created. The latest updates include information from the 2015-2020 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, along with...