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Healthy Halloween Tips: How Parents Can Find a Sweet Balance
Halloween night is a fun and spooky occasion, but for many parents it can trigger something even scarier: the candy. Navigating a night filled with endless sweets can feel challenging. How do we balance the celebratory spirit of Halloween with healthy moderation? As a mom and dietitian, I have a few thoughts. A version of… Read more
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What is the Deal with Seed Oils?
A Look at the Science and the Skepticism In the masterpiece that was Mean Girls, Regina George once said “why are you so obsessed with me?” In my mind, that is what seed oils must be thinking too. In recent years, lowly seed oils have found themselves at the center of a heated health debate.… Read more
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees
The Not-So-Secret Key to Health and Vitality that Health Professionals Want You to Know About Nearly every day I see a headline or social media post about a food, ingredient or chemical that’s supposedly the underlying cause of what’s “making us sick.” The story is typically sensationalized coming from misinterpreted data or an unqualified interpreter… Read more
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
5 Public Health Success Stories Being Turned Upside Down by Modern Misinformation I just read Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Song of the Cell and I can’t help but feel inspired and in awe of how far we’ve come in medical science. From the discovery of the cell to germ theory, from in vitro fertilization to T-cell… Read more
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