What’s Cooking Wednesday! Blogger Alison Bickel shares a recipe for Spring Quinoa, her family’s favorite way to fuel up with grain foods. Filled with the fresh flavor of spring, one taste and you’ll be hooked!
La Fuji Mama helps you get one-step closer to your daily dose of whole grains with her recipe for Brown Rice & Veggie Stuffed Eggplant.
In recognition of American Hearth Month, blogger Bree Hester shares one of her favorite whole grain recipes.
We applaud the USDA’s recent announcement about its revamped school meal nutrition standards while acknowledging that school food service personnel have worked long and hard to deliver the most nutritious meals possible for the budgets they’ve been given. The new guidelines are a clear indication of the USDA’s dedication to the health and well-being of this country’s children and we look forward to their implementation.
Today kicks off American Heart Month and in recognition, we’d like to discuss some of the simple steps you can take to keep your ticker healthy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 27 million American adults are living with heart disease, making it the leading cause of death in the United States.
Approximately 300 million sandwiches are eaten in America each day. Americans have certainly embraced sandwiches as a go-to meal for breakfast, lunch, or dinner so it’s only right we give this ingenious creation the recognition it deserves! So, join us in celebrating National Sandwich Day today!
Planning nutritious meals on a budget may seem like a challenge, but with a little help from grains, you can be turning out cost-efficient and nutrition packed meals in no time!
An old diet really can do new tricks. A study published in this month’s Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine revealed that adolescent girls who closely followed the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, widely known as the DASH diet, had a smaller tendency to gain extra weight by early adulthood than girls who followed it less closely.
The eagerly awaited MyPlate icon was released today and we commend the USDA for its work in developing it. The new icon replaces the MyPyramid graphic, aiming to help consumers follow a healthy eating pattern based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans released earlier this year.
At a recent American Heart Association conference, researchers presented study findings showing that eating breakfast cereal regularly can decrease the risk of developing high blood pressure.