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Spice Advice: Do You Know Your Spices?

When it comes to lightening up recipes, it is important to understand how to keep flavor when reducing fat, sugar or sodium. One way is by adding spices, herbs or other flavorings. Get to know your spices. 

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Spices

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Roast Garlic?

When roasted, garlic caramelizes and its sharp bite mellows. It's delicious spread on warm, crusty bread, and it adds layers of flavor to many recipes. Best of all, roasting garlic is easy!

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Roasted Garlic

Food for Strength:
Fuel Your Workout

Listen to locker room talk at the gym and you'll hear lots of conflicting tips about what you should eat and drink before and after you work out. These answers to five questions about fueling your workout sort fact from fiction.

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Dumbells

Lighten Up Your
Southern Favorites

With plenty of produce on your plate and a few tweaks to traditional cooking methods, Southern food—yes, even fried chicken!—can be enjoyed on a healthful eating plan.

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Southern Food

Tip of the Day: White Whole-Wheat Bread?

Have you ever wondered why some whole-wheat bread or flour is white? White whole-wheat flour comes from a different type of wheat that's naturally lighter and milder than the red wheat used to make traditional whole-wheat flour.

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Keep Leftovers Safe

Saving leftovers to eat later is a great way to practice portion control and save money, but it’s important to make sure leftovers are safe to eat according to Home Food Safety, a collaborative program of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and ConAgra Foods.

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Academy Supports Dairy Farmers/Farm Bill

Amid one of the most severe and widespread droughts to affect the United States in a half-century, the plight of the nation’s agricultural community, including its dairy farmers, is uppermost in the minds of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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