A Healthy Pregnancy
with Faith Bontrager, RN, BSN
The CDC released some great news this week. From 2000 to 2008 the percentage of mothers who initiated breastfeeding increased over 4 percentage points.
This is great news for babies [...]
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I’ve been saying for years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Here at Dr. Gourmet we’ve reported on research with a variety of results, including: 1. Protein at breakfast will help you [...] Dear Dr. Gourmet, Q: How can you say thatBody Mass Index is “a good tool” when it doesn’t apply to everyone? Lots of athletes and body builders have a BMI in the overweight range (according to your chart), but they have very low body fat. Are [...] Dear Dr. Gourmet, Q: I checked out your recommended breakfast bars. The number one bar had 1.5 grams of saturated fat. I didn’t purchase it because I was concerned about the saturated fat and I don’t know what is the acceptable number of grams for good [...] Dear Dr. Gourmet, Q: Do you recommend against adding table salt while cooking and before eating? Can we get all the required sodium from the vegetables that we eat? I have heard that the amount of sodium [...] Dear Dr. Gourmet, Q: Just wondering what you think about the Paleo Diet. My son, a physical therapist and a CrossFit trainer thinks it is a good diet. As I understand it, it goes a little further than just being a diet that will help those [...] These recipes can be made with stevia instead of Splenda. Use 12 packets of Truvia brand for each 1/2 cup of Splenda. Z Sweet brand measures like sugar so you will need the same amount of that product as the amount of Splenda indicated in [...] Baked Eggs with Hashbrowns I like eggs for dinner. While this is a great dish for a weekend brunch, it makes an equally good choice for a weeknight dinner. The veggies take about 5 minutes to [...] Dr. Tim Says…. Back in the 1970’s and 80’s eggs got a really bad rap – and not for very substantial reasons. Much of what happened in the late 1960’s that laid the groundwork for the egg’s poor reputation wasn’t based on sound science, but over the [...] |
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