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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

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

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 to think that your body d...

By: Joe Dively

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 underestimate the importan...

By: Joe Dively

Pet food company linked to thousands of pets' deaths proposes settlement with owners.

A pet food maker whose contaminated product may have led to the deaths of thousands of dogs and cats in North America has agreed to settle lawsuits with pet owners in the United States and Canada.

ALMOST a third of Australians believe they have suffered food poisoning in the past year, a government food survey reveals.

PUBLIC hospital food was so "atrocious" and menus so inflexible that half of all patients were "starving" and ended up staying twice as long as a result, an inquiry heard yesterday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will study the safety of cloned animals for food, after a report concluded there is no biological difference in the meat and milk of cloned and non-cloned cattle, officials sai...