Did you know that over 29 million Americans are living with diabetes according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)? Another 86 million Americans are living with pre-diabetes,
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IBS affects between 25 and 45 million people in the United States with two-thirds of those being female.
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Due to federal nutrition label reform, the Nutrition Facts Label will get an update.
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With all the hype surrounding diet and nutrition, it can be easy to become confused in the whirlwind of latest fad diets and contradictory recommendations. So what is a person to eat?
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Due to the focus on nutrition over the last 100 years, many nutrient deficiencies have been eliminated. But now we find an increasing number of the population suffering from chronic diseases related to poor diet as well as decreased physical activity. What if the top chronic diseases including heart disease and type 2 diabetes could be eradicated by
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Food and nutrition professionals everywhere are celebrating March as National Nutrition Month®. What started in March of 1973 as National Nutrition Week grew into a month-long celebration by 1980 due to the rising interest in nutrition. The American Dietetic Association (now known as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics or AND) started this campaign to bring
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When it comes to handling stress, are you cool as a cucumber or hot as a hot pepper? Stress is present every day but how we choose to handle that stress can impact our physical and emotional well being. So how does stress contribute to heart disease? Stress can increase blood pressure. If you already have hypertension, the
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Exercise! Some people love it and some hate it. But staying active is a vital ingredient in the recipe for health. Exercise does many things for us: It helps us control our weight. It reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. (Lowers blood pressure and LDL cholesterol while increasing HDL cholesterol) It reduces the risk of
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Can you prevent heart disease with a healthy diet? And if so, what does that look like? We have touched on diet in previous posts but let’s look at what research says about diet and heart health. There are so many diets touted to improve health and reduce heart disease risk but which ones actually
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When you think about heart health, you may not necessarily connect it to your blood sugar. If you have diabetes, you may not realize that your risk of having heart disease is higher because of the diabetes. But the truth is diabetes is a major risk factor for heart disease. If you also experience metabolic
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