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1: The Nutrients You Must Have Every Day

You hear it all of the time: cut back on those carbs, fats and proteins.  Your body isn’t meant to eat dairy or animals.  While the makers of a variety of fad diets may want you ...

By: Joe Dively

2: The Importance of Vitamins and Minerals

Never underestimate the power of the vitamin.  We need the right amount of vitamins and minerals every day in order to stay healthy.  While supplements are always a helpful way to fill...

By: Joe Dively

3: Water - The Forgotten Nutrient

Question:  What nutrient is the least discussed or thought of nutrient today?Answer: Water.Water may be the most forgotten nutrient of all time.  It’s easy to u...

By: Joe Dively

4: Eating Out Nutritionally

Most people believe that heading to a restaurant for dinner or special occasion means eating an unbalanced, overindulgent meal.  That simply isn’t true.  While it is a treat, eat...

By: Joe Dively

5: Is Breakfast really The Most Important Meal of the Day?

You’ve heard it your entire life: breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but is it true?  Really true?  You bet!When your body retires in the evening, it sl...

By: Joe Dively

6: Tips to Better Eating

It’s an amazing fact:  most American’s eat as much as three times what their body requires, yet few actually meet their daily nutritional needs.  How can you learn to break...

By: Joe Dively

7: The Food Pyramid

The Food Pyramid has been used for decades to show people what type (and how much) of individual foods they should eat every day for optimal health.  Redesigned in 2005, the new pyramid spo...

By: Joe Dively

8: Eat Your Way to Sexier Skin and Hair

Forget all of those hair gels, special shampoos, not to mention all of the lotions and wrinkle creams you’ve been wasting your time and money on.   You don’t need to spend ...

By: Joe Dively

9: Why is Your Glycemic Index So Important?

We are what we eat.  Who hasn’t heard that phrase before? But, if that were true there’s be an awful lot of Oreo Cookies and packages of French fries walking around out there.&n...

By: Joe Dively

10: Understanding Food Labels

Every food item you buy must list the nutritional food facts somewhere on its label. The trouble is, most of us have no idea how to read them.  Sure, the label may say the food we’ve ...

By: Joe Dively

Eat Your Way to Sexier Skin and Hair

Forget all of those hair gels, special shampoos, not to mention all of the lotions and wrinkle creams you’ve been wasting your time and money on.   You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars on t...

By: Joe Dively

Is Breakfast really The Most Important Meal of the Day?

You’ve heard it your entire life: breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but is it true?  Really true?  You bet!When your body retires in the evening, it slows your metabolism while...

By: Joe Dively

Eating Out Nutritionally

Most people believe that heading to a restaurant for dinner or special occasion means eating an unbalanced, overindulgent meal.  That simply isn’t true.  While it is a treat, eating out doesn’t hav...

By: Joe Dively

It's showering quarters, nickels and dimes today as the first ever Global Child Nutrition Month kicks off. This April, the School Nutrition Association (SNA), in conjunction with the Global Child Nutr...

Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition launches Master's Degree Program in Nutrition Science and Policy in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

Mayo Clinic nutritionists discourage families from applying special autism diets. Julie Matthews, a Certified Nutrition Consultant and author of 'Nourishing Hope', disagrees. She has helped hundreds o...

With America increasingly becoming a fast-food society, the art of cooking is becoming a lost skill; but the Young Chefs Academy in O'Fallon is combating that trend by offering classes for kids that n...

Sea Vegetables offer a bounty of deliciousness and nutrition--and are a unique alternative to the standard veggie menu! Ravens' Restaurant in Mendocino County in Northern California invites you to tr...