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Fitness & Nutrition
Food and Nutrition


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Children's Nutrition, Fitness & Weight Control
• Ask The Expert: Overweight Teen
• Audio: Kids and Obesity
• Book Review: Fast Food Nation
• Children and Exercise
• Delicious Ways to Sneak Fiber Into Your Child's Diet
• First Person: Dysfunctional High School Days
• Food Safety for Kids
• Guidelines on Childhood Obesity
• How to Get Your Child to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables
• Multimedia: Fitness for Toddlers
• Multimedia: The Edible Schoolyard
• Organic Fruits and Vegetables
• Overweight Kids
• Picky Eaters
• Q & A: My Teen's Weight
• Q&A: Pre-Teens and Exercise
• Quick and Healthful Breakfasts for Kids
• Quick and Healthful Dinners for Kids
• Quick and Healthful Lunches for Kids
• Quick and Healthful Snacks for Kids
• Quiz: How's Your Kid's Diet?
• Skinny Kids, Ages 3-12
• Special Report: Is Soda Making Kids Fat?
• Special Report: School Lunches
• Vegetarian Diets for Kids
• Weight Loss for Children: A Family Affair
Fats, Carbs, Protein (Macronutrients)
• Ask The Expert: Eggs and Cholesterol
• Ask the Expert: Cheese and Cholesterol
• Depression and Fish Oil
• How Much Sugar is Too Much?
• Low-Fat Meals
• Preventing Heart Disease: Watch Your Cholesterol
• Special Report: Craving Sugar
• Special Report: High Protein Diets
• Special Report: Lowering High Cholesterol
• Special Report: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and the Heart
• Trans Fats
Food & Water Safety
• Avoiding Bad Eggs
• Cooking a Perfect Turkey
• Food Poisoning: How to Avoid It
• Foodborne Illness
• Quiz: Your Kitchen Habits
• Safe Ways to Prepare Fish
• Seafood and Mercury
• Seafood, Mercury, and Pregnancy
• Special Report: Sushi Worms
• Water Safety
Healthy Eating and Cooking
• A Thanksgiving Worth Celebrating
• Basics of Healthy Eating
• Book Review: Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
• Book Review: Fast Food Nation
• Book Review: Fat Land
• Book Review: Healthy Jewish Cooking
• Book Review: Light Ethnic Cooking
• Book Review: The Dreaded Broccoli Cookbook, Essentially Eggplant, and This Can't Be Tofu!
• Caffeine
• Diet and the Color Code
• Downsize This! The Fun of Smaller Portions
• Eating Healthy alla Italiana
• Fast Food Pitfalls
• First Person: Fat of the Land
• First Person: Junk Food Heaven
• First Person: Love Those Chips!
• Food Labels 101
• Get Your Juices
• Heart-Healthy Cooking with Recipe Substitutions
• Quick & Healthy Eating Tips
• Quick and Healthful Breakfasts
• Quick and Healthful Dinners
• Quick and Healthful Lunches
• Quick and Healthful Snacks
• Special Report: Cinco de Mayo
• Special Report: What's Wrong With the American Diet?
• Special: Happy Thanksgiving!
• The New Food Pyramid
Nutrition During Pregnancy
• Artificial Sweeteners and Pregnancy
• Caffeine
• Calcium and Pregnancy
• Controlling Junk Food Cravings
• Diet for a Healthy Pregnancy
• Fats a Pregnant Woman Can Love
• Folic Acid
• Foods to Help Your Baby Grow
• Iron and Pregnancy
• Prenatal Vitamin Supplements
• Quiz: Do You Know How to Eat Smart While Pregnant?
• Seafood, Mercury, and Pregnancy
• Special Report: Cravings During Pregnancy
• Twins: Special Nutrition and Exercise Needs
• Weight Gain During Pregnancy
Nutrition Rx
• Alcohol and the Heart
• Book Review: Heart-Healthy Recipes
• Caffeine and Conception
• Depression and Fish Oil
• Diet and Cancer
• Diet and Diabetes
• Diet and Headaches
• Diet and High Blood Pressure
• Diet and Menopause
• Diet and PMS
• Diet for Healthy Bones
• Diet for a Healthy Heart
• Eat Right for Energy
• Eating to Ward Off Heart Disease
• Food Rx: Eating Right to Stay Healthy
• Food and Mood
• Food and Pain
• Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention
• Heart-Healthy Cooking with Recipe Substitutions
• Preventing Diabetes Through Diet and Exercise
• Preventing Heart Disease: Watch Your Cholesterol
• Salt and High Blood Pressure
• Special Report: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and the Heart
Recipes
Special Diets
• Calcium Without the Cow
• Eat Right for Energy
• Lactose Intolerance FAQ
• Macrobiotics
• Vegetarian
• Weight Loss Programs vs. Fad Diets
Vitamins & Minerals
• Calcium
• Calcium Without the Cow
• Calcium and Pregnancy
• Chromium
• Chromium Picolinate
• Daily Nutrition Calculator (Vitamins and Minerals)
• Folic Acid
• Iron
• Iron and Pregnancy
• Multivitamins
• Potassium
• Prenatal Vitamin Supplements
• Quiz: Vitamin ABCs
• Selenium
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E
• Zinc
Weight Loss Programs vs. Fad Diets

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In the News
Mediterranean Diet Cuts Death From Chronic Diseases
HealthDay
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Acrylamide Raises Kidney Cancer Risk
HealthDay
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High Blood Pressure Runs in Families
HealthDay
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Cool Tools
Calorie Need Calculator
Daily Food Diary
Daily Nutrition Calculator (Vitamins and Minerals)
Fast Food Fact Finder
Healthy Eating Guide
Healthy Shopping Guide
How Many Calories Are You Drinking?
Quiz: Do You Know Your Mexican Food?
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Carbs?
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Sugar?
Quiz: Vitamin ABCs
Quiz: What Do You Know About Trans Fats?
Test Your Serving-Size Smarts
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Related Topics
Dental Health Center
Eating Disorders
Sports Nutrition & Supplements
Weight Control Center
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Useful sites
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
- Nutrio.com: Nutrition
- Delicious Decisions
- Live Healthier, Live Longer
- Betty Crocker
- Healthy Refrigerator
- CyberDiet

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