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The Best and Worst Foods to Eat at Subway (the Sandwich Shop)
It seems that tons of people on a regular basis search for “the best” or “the worst” foods to eat at Subway, and end up being directed by Google to my story about the best and worst foods to eat ON the...
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Why You Should Feel Okay About Cooking With Salt
“I don’t cook with salt.” I’ve heard this refrain many times from people who have high blood pressure. I picture them slurping down tasteless soups and suffering through bland steaks, and am happy for...
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Will Ronald McDonald Retire?
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece today about the pressure being put on McDonald’s to stop marketing its food to kids, and to send its cherry-haired clown packing. People will pooh-pooh this kind of...
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LYFE Kitchen: Truly Healthy Food Brought to You By Former McDonald’s Execs?
Crazy! But great! Apparently a couple of former execs from McDonald’s are planning to open a “fast food” restaurant, LYFE Kitchen, that will serve truly healthy foods, including grass-fed beef and...
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The Chain Restaurant Trap: 1,300-Calorie “Healthy” Choices
We’re all super busy. We have to juggle work, chores at home, maybe taking care of kids as well. Unfortunately, cooking often falls to the wayside. And with so many places to eat out, well, why not...
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How Cooking Protects Us From Disease and Obesity
At the start of the 20th century, eating a meal out was a rare treat–only 2 percent of meals were eaten outside the home, in fact. But now, 50 percent of our meals are eaten away from home. And when we...
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My Dark Fast-Food Secret
As a holistic nutrition counselor, my job is to help people eat better and live healthier lives. Which is probably why at some point one of my kids said to me, “What if your clients found out you were...
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How the “Umami” Taste Affects Appetite
Growing up, you may remember learning about the four tastes that our tongues can detect: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. But it’s now generally recognized that there is a fifth taste, a taste that’s...
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Do You Suffer From “Portion Distortion”?
The more meals we eat outside of our homes, the more food we’re likely consuming. Why? Because restaurants give us huge servings of food—enough to feed a family of four sometimes. We get so used to...
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When the Number on the Scale Starts to Creep Up …
Inevitably, this seems to happen to all of us at one time of life or another. Maybe you haven’t weighed yourself in a while. And then you do. And the number is not what you expect. Wait, really? When...
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