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September is National Potato Month

Hooray!  A whole month to celebrate the potato!  I really don’t need a reason.  Potatoes are my comfort food.  I’ve been known to stop on my way home from work just to get some hot mashed potatoes or to heat up some leftover potatoes from the previous night’s dinner. Potatoes sometimes get blamed for being […]

WRITTEN BY: Barbara Hennard, Educator, OSU Extension, Family & Consumer Sciences

REVIEWED BY: Shawna Hite, Healthy People Program Specialist, OSU Extension Family & Consumer Sciences

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • Pixabay.com

SOURCES:

  • Iowa State University Extension: https://iastate.app.box.com/s/v938wtxytvyxnci0ct1vlzhwn0gcttna
  • University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension http://food.unl.edu/documents/Potato.pdf
  • National Potato Council: http://www.nationalpotatocouncil.org/potato-facts/
  • Potato Goodness: http://www.potatogoodness.com/

A Tomato A Day…

  Ohio farmers and gardeners harvest a cornucopia of tomatoes in late summer. Yes, they are a fruit from a horticultural perspective, but nutritionists would say they’re vegetables since they’re low in fructose but high in phytonutrients, vitamins A and C. A tomato a day, no matter what the form whether consumed fresh, frozen, sauced, […]

Healthy Eating for Fast Paced Lives

Though our days are not getting any longer, we tend to squeeze more and more into our schedules.  We move faster and expect things done instantly. The same attitude can be adopted with eating. Our food environment has been shaped to the moving pace we’ve set, as well as our desire to have whatever we […]

WRITTEN BY: Daniel Remley, Assistant Professor, Food, Nutrition, and Wellness,College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Reducing Saturated Fat in Your Diet But Still Eating Meat

The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines recommend we reduce the saturated fat in our diet.  This usually means limiting your intake of red meat, which is high in saturated fat. The problem with saturated fat is it raises our blood cholesterol level, especially the LDL (bad) cholesterol  increasing our risk of heart disease and stroke.  However, many […]

Smoothie Bike Blends Nutrition and Physical Activity

OSU Extension specialists have been taking a “smoothie bike” –a stationary bike with a blender powered by pedaling—to trainings and events around Ohio.   Both kids and adults love creating recipe combinations and revving up the blender.  Dozens of smoothie batches have been created, and each one was declared delicious! The smoothie bike activity has great […]

WRITTEN BY: Carol Smathers, MS, MPH, OSU Extension Field Specialist in Youth Nutrition and Wellness, smathers.14@osu.edu

REVIEWED BY: Jenny Lobb, MPH, RD, LD , Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, OSU Extension Franklin County

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • Marilyn Rabe and Carol Smathers, OSU Extension

SOURCES:

  • Ohio State University Extension. http://cfaes.osu.edu/sites/cfaes_main/files/site-library/site-documents/News/chow_smoothies.pdf
  • National 4-H Council. http://www.4-h.org/youth-development-programs/kids-health/programming-resources/health-nutrition-fitness/youth-voice/eat-move-o-matic/
  • Health Education and Behavior. http://heb.sagepub.com/content/42/4/487
  • Journal of Child Nutrition and Management. https://schoolnutrition.org/uploadedFiles/5_News_and_Publications/4_The_Journal_of_Child_Nutrition_and_Management/Fall_2015/ExploringMilkandYogurtSelection.pdf
  • United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/cn/SP10_CACFP05_SFSP10-2014v3oss.pdf
  • Ohio Department of Education. http://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Other-Resources/Food-and-Nutrition/National-School-Lunch-and-Breakfast/School-Breakfast-Program/2015_SBP_Fact_Sheet.pdf.aspx

Making the New Dietary Guidelines a Part of Your Life: Dairy

The New Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020 was released this year. You may ask, “So what does that mean for me?” Find out in this 3rd post, reviewing the Guideline’s Key Recommendations and how to use them in everyday life! Today, we’re going to cover the Guideline’s dairy recommendations, but don’t forget to check out the past posts […]

WRITTEN BY: Shawna Hite, OSU Extension, FCS, Healthy People Program Specialist

REVIEWED BY: Dan Remley, OSU Extension, FCS, Assistant Professor, Field Specialist, Food, Nutrition, & Wellness

SOURCES:

  • Center for Science in the Public Interest (2014). Healthy School Snacks. Retrieved from: http://cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/healthy_school_snacks.html
  • UCSF Medical Center (2016). Calcium Content of Foods. Retrieved from: https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/calcium_content_of_selected_foods/
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (2016). Dairy Tips. Retrieved from: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/dairy-tips

REFERENCES:

  • Ervin, R. B., Wang, C. Y., Wright, J. D., & Kennedy-Stephenson, J. (2004). Dietary intake of selected minerals for the United States population: 1999–2000. Energy, 1(5):6.
  • Gunther, C., Hite, S., (2016). Calcium. Ohio State University Extension. Retrieved from: http://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5506
  • National Institute of Health (March 2013). Calcium. U.S Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved from: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Calcium-Consumer/#h5
  • Quann, E. E., Fulgoni III, V. L., & Auestad, N. (2015). Consuming the daily recommended amounts of dairy products would reduce the prevalence of inadequate micronutrient intakes in the United States: diet modeling study based on NHANES 2007-2010. Nutrition Journal, 14(1), 1-11. doi:10.1186/s12937-015-0057-5
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (March 2016). Dairy. Choosemyplate.gov. Retrieved from: choosemyplate.gov/dairy
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (Feb 2016). Choosemyplate.gov. Retrieved from: choosemyplate.gov/oils-fats
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (January 2016). Dietary guidelines for Americans 2015-2020, eighth edition. United States Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved from: health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines

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