What is Choline?
Highlights Choline is an essential nutrient involved in brain and nervous system function, cell membrane support, making DNA, fat transport and metabolism. The Food and Nutrition Board…
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A Printable Guide for Introducing New Foods to Your Baby
Download the Calendar (PDF) Being unsure about how and when to introduce new foods to your baby is common. We’re here to help with even the pickiest…
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Fast Take: The EAT-Lancet Report on Sustainable Diets
Key Highlights Report states that feeding 10 billion people by the year 2050 with a healthy and sustainable diet will be impossible without changing eating habits, improving…
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What is the MIND diet?
Highlights: The MIND diet is a hybrid of the Mediterranean and DASH diets with its goal to reduce dementia and the decline in brain health that usually…
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Going Low-Carb? Here’s What Your Diet Will Be Missing
Whether it was cookies or candy, frozen or fried, or chocolate or crackers, I’m willing to bet that there was no shortage of carbohydrates in most of…
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How’d This Get on My Plate: Breakfast
Good ol’ breakfast—it’s the meal many of us eat to start off our days in a healthy way. There are many great options for our first meal…
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Five Food Trends To Watch in 2019
Five Food Trends To Watch in 2019 Consumers Adopting an Origins-Focused Approach When Buying Food (Washington, D.C.) — While consumers cite broad aspects like taste, price and…
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First Year Feeding Practices [Video]
Infancy and early childhood are significant stages of growth and development, particularly during the first twelve months of life. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) notes that “given the…
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What is Xylitol?
Highlights: Xylitol is a type of carbohydrate called a sugar alcohol, or polyol. Xylitol occurs naturally in many fruits and vegetables. It is also commercially produced from…
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What a Dairy Farmer Wants You to Know
Many healthy and delicious foods that come from cows, including milk, cheese and yogurt, are staples in many of our homes. While some people opt for cow’s…
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