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Tomato season is upon us! So many of us love a fresh sliced tomato on our sandwich or a diced tomato placed on top of a crisp salad. There are approximately 7,500 tomato varieties grown around the world for various purposes.  It wasn’t until the 1900s that the tomato gained some measure of popularity in […]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is required to remove Social Security Numbers (SSNs) from all Medicare cards by April 2019. A new, unique Medicare Number is replacing the SSN-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) on each new Medicare card. Starting April 2018, CMS began mailing new Medicare cards to all people with […]

The DASH Diet is a heart healthy diet that has been studied in multiple trials in regards to heart health. The studies described below were funded by The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health). The main findings from each trial were: • DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension […]

Strawberry season is upon us! Strawberries are nutritious and can be included in any meal or snack of the day! Strawberries contain plenty of nutrients such as vitamin C, folate, and fiber.1   Fun Strawberry Facts: California is the largest producer of domestically grown strawberries, supplying almost 90% of the strawberries grown in the United States.2 […]

Dried fruits are sweet on their own, but some food manufacturers will add sugar to dried fruits to make them even more palatable. Be cautious about added sugars with dried fruits. The sugars listed on the food label include sugars natural to the food as well as added sugars, so it is difficult to determine […]

Do you like to have a sweet treat while watching the Super Bowl? Why not try a healthier dessert, so that you can enjoy something sweet without a lot of calories and fat! Lower calorie desserts can be quite tasty and satisfy a sweet tooth! We commonly bring finger foods to a party such as […]

Every autumn, usually from mid-September until around mid-November in North America, cranberries are ready for harvesting. Cranberries come from bogs, an area of soft, marshy ground with acid peat soil, usually near wetlands, where the cranberries grow on long-running vines. You can find them all over North and South America. Wet harvesting is when the […]

There are plenty of times in our lives we are not in the mood to turn on the stove, preheat the oven, or fire up the grill. Take out and fast food allow us to eat quickly, but do not always have the healthiest options. There are plenty of recipes online that solely use the […]

Improve your health with our registered dietitian, Kaitlin Slone, RDN, LDN. What You Get: Expert Education & Training Hands-on learning and group discussion with a registered dietitian. All educational materials for the class are provided. Learn About: Reading Food Labels Diabetes Nutrition Plant Based Meals Using Technology for Healthy Lifestyles Diet for Healthy Hearts Nutrition […]

According to the literature, more than 10,000 years ago, and before they were domesticated, cows produced only the A2 beta casein protein.1 Around 8,000 years ago a natural gene mutation occurred and was passed on to many breeds.1 Slowly, the A1 beta casein variant became dominant in milk.1 While dairy herds in many parts of […]