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Category: Healthy Eating

We Love the Holidays!
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11.17.2017

We Love the Holidays!

By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Outreach Director Here at Arizona Farm Bureau, and especially with our farm and ranch families, we love the holidays!…

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Nuts for Nuts? You Should be!
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11.15.2017

Nuts for Nuts? You Should be!

By Jessica Bombace, ASU Nutrition Student Photo Provided by Green Valley Nuts may seem like just an ordinary snack or something you would find in…

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Scrub Your Grub!
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11.13.2017

Scrub Your Grub!

By Laura Slatalla, Recent ASU Nutrition Student Step one, before cutting into vegetables or taking a bite of fruit, is to wash all produce. Produce…

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5 Tips to Encourage Healthy Eating Habits
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11.10.2017

5 Tips to Encourage Healthy Eating Habits

by Lori Meszaros, Recent ASU Nutrition Communication student [caption id="attachment_14874" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Photo by Adam Harris of healthyhandyman.com[/caption]   If you walked into a school…

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Tips to Keep You on Track with Healthy Eating
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11.08.2017

Tips to Keep You on Track with Healthy Eating

 By Lori Meszaros, Former ASU Nutrition Communications student We’ve all been there, wanting to cook a healthy meal but home too late to even think…

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Acne is Not Just About the Diet
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11.06.2017

Acne is Not Just About the Diet

By Bailey Roden, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern You know that cliché movie where the teenage girl has a date coming up and a pimple appears…

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To Beef or Not To Beef: Nutrition Facts about a Misunderstood Food
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11.03.2017

To Beef or Not To Beef: Nutrition Facts about a Misunderstood Food

By Amanda Van Dall, ASU Nutrition Student It’s about progress, not perfection. We are all on divergent paths with different goals. Yet we share similar…

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Does Early Vitamin A Supplement Reduce Infant Mortality?
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11.01.2017

Does Early Vitamin A Supplement Reduce Infant Mortality?

By Jessica Bombace, ASU Nutrition Student   First and foremost, Vitamin A deficiency is well known in the world to poor and underprivileged populations. A…

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Diabetes and Better Eating
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10.30.2017

Diabetes and Better Eating

By Bailey Roden, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern Do you suffer from diabetes or know someone who does? According to the American Diabetes Association, in 2015…

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Know Exactly What You Get When Eating Broccoli
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10.27.2017

Know Exactly What You Get When Eating Broccoli

By Kevann Jordan, Recent ASU Nutrition Student Why should we eat our broccoli? Is it really that good for you? Of course, the answer is…

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Bad Eating Habits: Are Yours Hurting You?
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10.23.2017

Bad Eating Habits: Are Yours Hurting You?

By Bailey Roden Arizona Farm Bureau Intern We have all experienced that moment when we turn to food for comfort hence the term comfort food.…

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Soup: The next Greatest Diet or just Another Fad?
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10.11.2017

Soup: The next Greatest Diet or just Another Fad?

Lori Meszaros, Recent Arizona State University Nutrition Student   “Nutrient dense power meals wherever you go, feed, not starve your body, nourish your body… Incorporating…

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To Supplement or not to Supplement: That is the Question
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10.09.2017

To Supplement or not to Supplement: That is the Question

By Kat Brown, Recent Arizona State University Nutrition Student  What is the deal with supplements anyway? What ones should I be taking? How much should…

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