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September 23, 2016

The Right Calories for You!

When it comes to maintaining a healthy weight for a lifetime, the bottom line is—calories count! Weight management is all about balance—balancing the number of calories you consume with the number of calories your body uses or “burns off.” This 30-minute webinar will be packed with information about resting metabolic rate, energy requirements, tools to […]

WRITTEN BY: Cindy Conway, MS, RDN, LD Research Associate, Ohio SNAP-Ed Program

Categories: Food, Webinars
Tags: #dietaryguidelines, balanced diet, calories, diet, Dietary Guidelines for Americans, healthy eating, physical activity

September 9, 2016

The Ins & Outs of Tracking Your Intake

You hear all the time that to lose weight, you should track what you eat. Research has shown the more a person records what they eat, the more weight they lost in the end. We’ve always encouraged daily food and fitness tracking for people who want to lose weight, but it’s time to dig a […]

Categories: Food, Webinars
Tags: calories, diet, diets, healthy eating, nutrition

May 4, 2015

Yes? No? Maybe so? Discovering the Truth in Nutrition Information

Let’s talk about eggs for a second. Eggs are full of cholesterol and are probably not heart healthy.  But go ahead and enjoy an egg for breakfast each day, as they are an inexpensive and complete source of protein. While you’re enjoying that breakfast you just made, remember that eating an egg is just as […]

WRITTEN BY: Kate Homonai, Family & Consumer Sciences Program Coordinator, Vinton County

REVIEWED BY: Amy Habig, MPH RDN LD, Program Specialist, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

SOURCES:

  • http://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(12)00504-7/abstract?cc=y
  • http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/foods/fn600.pdf
  • http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09350.html
  • http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/16/is-eating-eggs-really-as-bad-for-your-heart-as-smoking/
  • http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2010/dietaryguidelines2010.pdf

Categories: Food
Tags: diet, information, media, nutrition

December 24, 2014

C-O-N-T-R-0-L: That’s the Way you Spell Success

Two words with similar meanings that you will never find paired in a thesaurus are budget and diet. A budget is a system or plan used to manage your money.  If you spend more than you earn, you need to do one of two things:  decrease expenses or increase income……or try a little of both. […]

WRITTEN BY: Donna Green, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, Erie County

REVIEWED BY: Melissa Welker, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, Fulton County

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • http://search.creativecommons.org/

Categories: Money
Tags: budget, diet, self control, willpower

January 4, 2010

Think Simple with this Year’s Diet Resolutions

New year, new you?  Think that requires drastic change?  Here’s a reason not to adopt the latest diet outlawing your favorite food group.  Changing habits is a gradual process of tweaking and making adjustments in behavior. It’s not something you can turn on like a light switch.  So forgot about adopting rules will you will break before the end […]

Categories: Food
Tags: behavior change, diet

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