Do you know what the daily recommended values (DV) are for everything on that nutrition label? It’s like budgeting, you don’t know if you’re doing well or doing poorly unless you have a reference point. Daily recommended values is the FDA’s way of setting reference points and it’s important to know what they are, even [...]
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Daily Recommended Values
July 21st, 2008 — , Daily Recommended Values, Food, calories, carbs, cholesterol, fat, fiber, protein, saturated fat, sodium from jim @ Journal of Healthy Living
Key Messages for National Nutrition Month®
March 31st, 2008 — , Health & Fitness, cholesterol, eating right, mypyramid, national nutrition month, registered dietitian, saturated fat from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As March comes to a close, National Nutrition Month® also ends. This month’s theme, “Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact” focused on getting your nutrition information from facts (i.e., evidence-based medicine) and not just “believe everything you hear.” There were 10 key messages this month, and I [...]
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Dietary Fats–Sorting Through the Types
March 19th, 2008 — , Cooking, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, fat, heart disease, saturated fat, trans fat, unsaturated fat from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As we continue along through National Nutrition Month®, our final key message is: Find the healthy fats when making food choices. By choosing polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fats, you can keep your saturated fats, trans fat, and cholesterol low.
Not all fats are created equal. Some fats can help [...]
How to Read Food Nutrition Labels
March 19th, 2008 — , ADA, Foods, Health & Fitness, Weight Management, calories, carbs, diet, dietitian, fat, fiber, food label, healthy, mypyramid, national nutrition month, nutrients, nutrition, nutrition label, protein, registered dietitian, salt, saturated fat, sodium, trans fat, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. The next to last key message being promoted for National Nutrition Month® 2008 is:
Read food labels to get nutrition facts that help you make smart food choices quickly and easily.
It is important to know how to read a food label in order to know [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Traditional Irish Foods & Nutrition
March 16th, 2008 — , Cooking, Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, calories, eating, fat, healthy, heart, irish, nutrition, nutritional value, physical activity, recipe, salt, saturated fat, vegetables from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Many of you may be cooking Irish food today and/or eating/drinking Irish cuisine. I have a few strategies to this feast day:
Eat whatever you want, treating today as a “cheat day”, and not change your physical activity
Eat whatever you want, treating today [...]
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National School Breakfast Week
March 3rd, 2008 — , Food, Foods, Health & Fitness, Kids, News, breakfast, calcium, calories, cereal, children, healthy, milk, nutrition, protein, saturated fat, school lunch, vitamin from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. This week, March 3-7, is National School Breakfast Week and is sponsored by the School Nutrition Association. The purpose of National School Breakfast Week is to raise awareness of the healthfulness of school breakfast and the importance of breakfast in general. This year’s theme is [...]
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December 17th, 2007 — Cooking, Diabetes, Foods, Health & Fitness, baking, calories, carbohydrate, carbs, chocolate, cookies, dessert, diabetic, nutrient, recipe, registered dietitian, saturated fat, trans fat from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. Wondering what dessert to make for your holiday gathering, where several of your relatives, who are diabetic, will be there? Well, worry no more! Jackie Mills, a registered dietitian, (along with the American Diabetes Association) has written a “Big Book of Diabetic Desserts” to help [...]
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October 20th, 2007 — Cooking, Foods, calories, halloween, heart, nutrition, pumpkin, pumpkin seeds, saturated fat, seasonings, sodium, treat from Stacie @ Building Nutrition
Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As Halloween is fast approaching, many of us are carving pumpkins to put out on our doorstep. What can we do with the inside of the pumpkin once we carve it?
Let’s make a healthy snack with those pumpkin seeds! One of the easiest snacks you [...]
