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Healthy Halloween Treats: Recipes to Diet By

Trick or treat with healthy Halloween snacks this year. Roasted pumpkin seeds and healthy Halloween dessert recipes can help you stay on your diet during the biggest candy holiday of the year.

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Pumpkin Seed Recipes Make Use of Carved Pumpkins

The Twilight pumpkin carving is all done, and there's a big pile of Halloween pumpkin seeds and pulp left over. Quick & Easy Roasted Pumpkin Seed Recipe uses up all those seeds that would have ended up in the compost bin. Don't through away those seeds after pumpkin carving. Eat them!

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Fast Food That's Good for Your Health

New cookbook, called Raw Food Quick & Easy, makes nutritious raw food recipes easier and faster than ever.

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Green Smoothie Recipes Are Powerful Healing Drinks

A very healthy way to start on a energetic enhancing lifestyle is to start with a green smoothie, every day first thing in the morning, using any of green smoothie recipes that you know of.

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Healthy food availability could depend on where you live

The availability of healthy food choices and your quality of diet is associated with where you live, according to two studies conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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The Obamas: New Home, Same Food

Moving can be hard for any family but even more so if your new address is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Still sometimes it’s the little things that make the change easier, your favorite meal for instance; to that effect President Obama has brought a familiar face to the White House dinner table, Chef Sam Kass.

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Food advertisements in your magazine

In the first-ever study of food adverts in UK magazines, researchers found them filled with sugary, salt-filled options often contradicting the health messages the articles were trying to put across.

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Calories from homecooked recipes grow over time

Recent research presented today at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Small Changes Summit that addresses childhood obesity shows that calories in recipes have gradually increased over time.

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Labeling of Bug-Based Food Colorings Will Help Some Consumers

Statement of CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson on the latest from FDA about food labeling.

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Young Adults Need to Make Time for Healthy Meals

While young adults enjoy and value time spent eating with others, 35 percent of men and 42 percent of women say they do not have time to sit down for a meal, according to a study by researchers at the University of Minnesota.

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Young adults need to make more time for healthy meals

As adolescents mature into young adults, increasing time constraints due to school or work can begin to impact eating habits in a negative way.

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Route to obesity passes through tongue

Obesity gradually numbs the taste sensation of rats to sweet foods and drives them to consume larger and ever-sweeter meals, according to neuroscientists. Findings from the Penn State study could uncover a critical link between taste and body weight, and reveal how flab hooks the brain on sugary food.

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