healthy eating

We've all been there maybe you just got home from work or school, or maybe it's the middle of the night, and you decide to check the fridge for a snack.

Your taste buds will welcome this sweet salad topped with fresh strawberries tossed with tangy raspberry vinaigrette.

Just a few ingredients give your broccoli a flavor lift. This Simply Salad contest winning dish was submitted by Linda Ciccone, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA. (Serves 4)

Ingredients

• 2 c. fresh broccoli florets
• 1/8 c.

Enjoy this flavorful salad blending the flavors of pineapple, green apple and yellow pepper.

If you don't have a family meal each day, it's time to get out the plates. Table time yields benefits that go far beyond food. The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University says that the more often children eat dinner with their parents, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.

When you have arthritis, your body is in an inflammatory state, and what you eat may not only increase inflammation, it can also set you up for other chronic diseases such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Think twice about eating these eight inflammation food triggers:

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Do you like salt? Do you love salt? If you answered yes to either question, you're not alone. Salt finds its way into an abundance of foods. Needless to say, this is not ideal for our health. So what can we do? In this post, we will discuss the dangers of including too much salt in your diet.

"Bacteria" is a negative word, right? Not necessarily. If a bacterium comes in probiotic form, you ought to jump at the chance to take it in. It's about time the good bacteria stop getting a bum rap. Just look at the origin of the word.

Heading to a holiday party? Visiting a friend's house? Getting ready for company?

The American Diabetes Association uses this analogy - In some ways, the A1C test is like a baseball player's season batting average, it tells you about a person's overall success.