The Challenge of Halloween for Kids with Diabetes
Kids with diabetes face a challenge on Halloween: what to do with all the candy. While their friends are busy consuming their trick-or-treat booty, kids with diabetes must be more careful.
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Pumpkin Selection, Preparation, and Nutrition
Learn how to select the perfect pumpkin, different ways to prepare and cook it, how to puree it, and get the nutritional content for fresh and canned pumpkin.
Weight Control: It’s Not All or Nothing
The most recent report on weight control, issued by the National Institutes of Health, strongly counters the common “all or nothing” attitude of many dieters.
Don’t Cheat Yourself…Go Whole Grain
Whole grains can be helpful in controlling blood sugar and insulin levels in people with diabetes, and a new study has suggested that including whole grains regularly may even help prevent diabetes.
Focus on Fiber For Fitness
Perhaps more than any other nutrition practice, good fiber intake is important to our daily quality of life.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Are They Good Fats??
Omega-3 fatty acids have been making sensational nutritional headlines recently, which seems to be at odds with health news about fat intake. What are these fatty acids?
Your Summer Garden: A Nutrition Smorgasbord
One of life’s greatest culinary treats is the taste of a fresh, juicy tomato ripe off the vine from your bountiful home garden. When you add the fresh green peas, zucchini, green beans and summer squash, you have a real summer smorgasbord of both great taste and nutrition.
Dietary Fat: Finding A Healthy Balance
Fat is a nutrient that is both much feared and much loved. It is a source of pleasure, guilt and confusion for many people. While eating some fat is both necessary and health promoting, eating too much fat is detrimental. When over-consumed, fat may contribute to some major health risks: heart disease, cancer, excess body fat, high blood pressure and adult onset diabetes.
