Dining Out Strategies
Eating out in a restaurant can be challenging when you are trying to eat healthy and make weight-conscious choices. Things can get out of hand quickly when you are faced with too many options. It’s easy to consume more calories, fat, and sodium in just one restaurant...
Vegetarian Quesadillas: delicious + easy + loaded with fiber
Dietary fiber — found mainly in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes — is probably best known for its ability to prevent or relieve constipation. However, foods containing fiber can provide other health benefits such as lowering your risk of diabetes and...
Enjoy tasty food without too much fat, sugar, and salt
If this were 1990, people would laugh if you suggested adding avocado to toast. Fat was the enemy and low-fat and fat-free products including cookies, crackers, cheese, salad dressings took over the grocery stores. Thankfully science has progressed, and we know now...
Creamy Avocado Egg Salad
For many people, the Easter season brings with it the tradition of coloring and decorating eggs. But what do you do with the eggs afterwards – eat them or throw them away? Aren’t eggs too high in cholesterol? Questions about eggs and cholesterol come up throughout...
Tex-Mex Bean and Chicken Burrito
February is for love and heart health! It’s American Heart Month. Did you know that heart disease is the number one killer of Americans? Each year, more than two million heart attacks and strokes take place resulting in 800,000 deaths. Research shows that one in...
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