Healthy Finger Foods for Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day means… Romance. Love. Candlelight. There is no better way to celebrate the feelings of the heart than with a romantic meal at home…
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Games that Teach Kids about Fruit & Vegetable Nutrition
Check Out OurKids’ Website, FoodChamps.org, for games that teach kids about fruits and vegetables and healthy eating.
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App In A Snap
The term “hor d’ouevres” can be a bit intimidating; it sounds fancy, complicated, and to be honest, it’s even hard to spell! Let’s take a deep brea…
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Savvy Fruit & Veggie Shopping Tips
Get Smart!
It’s easy to include more without spending more. Remember to look for weekly specials throughout the store and try these other tips for including…
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Back To School with Fruits & Vegetables
What better way to boost that brain power than to fuel those bodies with healthy fruits and vegetables. Here are a few tips to make your kids the envy of the l…
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Eating Fruits & Vegetables On The Go
Eating on the go can feel chaotic, but it’s easy to include more fruits and vegetables away from home.
Try these easy to prepare ideas and tips to avoid last…
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Easy Dinner Solutions With Fruits & Vegetables
Adding more fruits and vegetables to your dinner doesn’t have to be a struggle. Hey, why not add them to the meals you are already making? Try these tips for…
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Shopping for Fruits & Vegetables
As you cruise the grocery aisles, remember all forms count. Pick up fruits and veggies throughout the store; it’s okay to grab canned and frozen. Try dried…
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My mother is 84 years old and her appetite is’nt very good. I would like her to drink V8 funsion juice, but some are too sour – can I add water and have the juice still be an effective source of nutrients? Serving is 1 cup – I added 1 cup of water.
Adding water to juice will dilute the concentration of nutrients in the juice. If she is drinking the full 2 cups of diluted juice, she will get the amoun…
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My mother is a stroke victim who still has, after one year, a feeding tube. She is still completely bedridden and cannot speak. She has good days and bad ones, as expected. She is alert at times and doesn’t respond at others. The doctors very quickly gave up on her and wanted us to use a drip (they prescribed “Jevity”) for all her nutrition. She is at home in the round-the-clock care of my sister who feels that she needs nothing but juicing and refuses to listen to the doctors because “they only want to maintain her and we want to rebuild her”. She has obtained different recipes of fruits and vegetables needed for each different thing such as cleansing arteries, dissolving an aneurysm, building cells, etc. My mother has lost quite a bit of weight (she is only 5’4″ and was very overweight before – my guess is that she’s lost about 40 pounds) since we brought her home and my other sister feels she is being starved and wants her to be given something else, such as Ensure or go back to the ‘Jevity’ drip. She is also being given Chinese herbs and other supplements suggested by a medical doctor who has an acupuncture business is an adjoining town. Please give me your opinion/suggestions as I seem to be caught in the middle.
Your sister’s dedication is to be commended. Fruits and vegetables are wonderful sources of many nutrients that are essential for health, but may not pro…
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I am a new learner. I bought wheat grass for using in juices but I don’t know how to keep because I cannot use it all at one time. Should I keep in the refrigerator or outside? Also can I just cut the tips and if it keeps growing. Thanks in advance for educating me.
Wheat grass is the young shoots of wheat plants. If no instructions came with your wheatgrass, there is some information available on line (Google wheatgrass).…
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Heart Health Protection – Guaranteed!
February is American Heart Month and there are numerous ways a better lifestyle can help reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke, improve cardiovascular fu…
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