Nutrition Spotlight

Cookie Monster or Veggie Monster

Nov 4th, 2009 | By Kimberly Fox | Category: Nutrition Spotlight, Parenting & Family Focus

Sesame Street is getting ready for their 40th season starting November 10th with a revamp of the show and lots more memories to come. But one of the big questions on everybody’s minds is “Who is the veggie monster?”
The the new season will reportedly feature lots of celebrities including First Lady Michelle Obama, new store [...]



7 Healthy Tailgating Recipe Ideas

Oct 19th, 2009 | By Mathew Brown | Category: Nutrition Spotlight

Lets face it, the average stereotype of a  football fan is an overweight man with a big old beer belly sitting on the couch all day on football Sunday shoveling in greasy pizza and pounding calories in a can but it doesn’t have to be that way.
There are tons of delicious low fat foods for [...]



Five Foods to Prevent Prostate Cancer Diet Matters

Oct 8th, 2009 | By Jeremy Alexander | Category: Men's Health, Nutrition Spotlight

Looks like mom was right. Eating your veggies will make you grow up big and strong.
Prostate Cancer, a cancer that forms in tissues of the prostate (a gland in the male reproductive system found below the bladder and in front of the rectum), affects hundreds of thousands of men. In 2009 alone there were 192,280 [...]



More Proof – Eating Right Helps Prevent Breast Cancer

Oct 3rd, 2009 | By Jennifer Anderson | Category: Nutrition Spotlight, Women's Health

A new study by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has confirmed that certain diets lower your risk of breast cancer dramatically.
In the study more than 50,000 African-American women, researchers found that the women that had a more nutritiously prudent diet lowered their risk for developing breast cancer by a whopping one third.
Eating whole grains, [...]