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How Single Moms Incorporate Healthy Diet and Exercise Habits
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02.08.2017

How Single Moms Incorporate Healthy Diet and Exercise Habits

By Eric LeClair, ASU Communication Nutrition Student Part 1 of a Series We have all made the excuse that we’re just “too busy” when talking…

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We Need to Have a Heart to Heart about Dairy
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02.06.2017

We Need to Have a Heart to Heart about Dairy

By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern Something has happened in the last 20 years, and fast-fading fad diets have become a societal norm. To…

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Give Your Gut what it Needs: Fiber
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02.01.2017

Give Your Gut what it Needs: Fiber

By Nathan Chambers,  Recent ASU Communication Nutrition Student   We all know that we should eat more fiber because it aids in digestion. But you…

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Smuggling Veggies into your Kid’s Favorite Foods
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01.30.2017

Smuggling Veggies into your Kid’s Favorite Foods

By Lori Meszaros, Recent ASU Nutrition Communication student As a parent, I want to make sure my kids are getting their 5 a day but…

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Getting Kids to Take Control of Their Nutrition
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01.27.2017

Getting Kids to Take Control of Their Nutrition

By Kevin Dietmeyer, Recent ASU Nutrition Student  Are you in control of your nutrition or does the endless pursuit of making healthy choices seem to…

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Exercise and Your Brain
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01.25.2017

Exercise and Your Brain

By Nathan Chambers, Recent ASU Nutrition Student  With an ever-aging population, more and more time is being spent studying diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia. We…

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Omega 3 Fatty Acids
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01.09.2017

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Omega 3 Fatty Acids

By Laura Slatalla, Recent ASU Nutrition Student Part 1: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Cholesterol Part 2: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know…

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Everything You Ever wanted to know about Fiber
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12.23.2016

Everything You Ever wanted to know about Fiber

By Laura Slatalla, recent ASU Nutrition Student Part 1: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Cholesterol  On average, American adults only eat about 15…

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Hydration
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12.12.2016

Hydration

By Laura Slatalla, recent ASU Nutrition Student Warm weather always seems right around the corner in Arizona even in the middle of winter. There’s one…

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Can Rewards Encourage Kids to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables at School?
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11.16.2016

Can Rewards Encourage Kids to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables at School?

  By Lori Meszaros, Nutrition Communication Student at ASU   Using rewards to get children to eat isn’t anything new. If you think about it,…

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Eat Your Proteins
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11.07.2016

Eat Your Proteins

By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern This article is the fourth installment of a series Part 1: Eat Your Veggies Part 2: Eat Your…

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Eat Your Greens!
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11.02.2016

Eat Your Greens!

By Nathan Chambers, ASU Nutrition Student   Thirty-three percent of adults over the age of twenty have hypertension2. In 2010, the death certificates of 1…

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The Magical Fruit
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10.31.2016

The Magical Fruit

By Jacob Gerdes, recent Arizona State University Nutrition Communications Student   This fruit comes in all colors and shapes and can take many forms in…

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