The Ga Nuong banh mi from Banh Mi Brothers. Alex Barrymore/courtesy of Hau Doan READ MORE How to eat healthy at Charlotte restaurants in 2024 If you’re trying a new diet and don’t know how to order when you go out to eat, check out our guide: Going on a low-fat diet in Charlotte in 2024? Don’t worry, it doesn’t mean giving up the joys of dining out. On a low-fat diet, the goal is to limit the intake of […]
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Grass-fed beef and beef fat can make a huge impact as for adding flavor to a dish. Courtesy of Don Mauer This column was first published on March 7, 2018. The original name of this column was going to be: Low-Fat and Loving It. That’s because, back in the early 1990s, fat was our dietary devil. At that time, I never thought that fats would ever be considered even a small part of a healthy food plan. Fortunately, my wise […]
Taco Bell is launching its new value menu, which offers 10 items for $3 or less and a new, vegetarian “Build-Your-Own-Cravings-Box”. The fast food chain is set to launch the new Cravings Value Menu on Thursday, Jan. 11, the company said in a news release. It will feature six new items and four classics. The value menu prices vary from $1.19 to $2.99 and feature a variety of options for meat eaters and vegetarians alike, like the Cheesy Bean & […]
CONSUMER TRENDS … Key differences in food sustainability and values emerge between generations PUBLISHED ON January 11, 2024 In the latest Consumer Food Insights Report, Joseph Balagtas, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University and director of the Center for Food Demand and Analysis, asked consumers to decide about discarding or consuming a food item based on different hypothetical “use by” dates. (Purdue Agricultural Communications photo/Tom Campbell) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Building off the previous month’s survey, the December 2023 Consumer […]
Lentil recipes aren’t just dinner inspiration; they’re a way to make the most of a well-stocked pantry. (And often fix a meal without a trip to the store.) Lentils can fortify simple soups and add texture to pasta sauces. Mix these quick-cooking legumes with quinoa, cabbage, and a lemony dressing, and you’ve got a tote-anywhere lunch that you’ll actually look forward to. Toss whatever mix of dals you have on hand into your Instant Pot with pearl barley, rice, and […]
It’s true. Milk does the body good. Milk and other dairy foods provide protein, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, vitamins A, D, and B12 and other nutrients that are vital to your body and how it functions. On the flip side, however, some dairy foods also contain saturated fat — a fat that can raise low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, which increases the risk of heart disease. But some recent research suggests that eating milk, cheese and yogurt — regardless of fat content […]
A UC Riverside study to motivate your new year’s resolutions: it demonstrates that high-fat diets affect genes linked not only to obesity, colon cancer, and irritable bowels, but also to the immune system, brain function, and potentially COVID-19 risk. While other studies have examined the effects of a high-fat diet, this one is unusual in its scope. UCR researchers fed mice three different diets over the course of 24 weeks where at least 40 percent of the calories came from […]
With the flip of a calendar year often comes the resolution to be the best new version of ourselves. With this fresh start, we promise that we’ll be better, do better, cut things out and swear things off. The majority of people’s resolutions revolve around physical and mental health, finances and losing weight, but these typically last only two to four months. Instead of cutting things out, research has shown that focusing on adding things in can make small changes […]
With the flip of a calendar year often comes the resolution to be the best new version of ourselves. With this fresh start, we promise that we’ll be better, do better, cut things out and swear things off. The majority of people’s resolutions revolve around physical and mental health, finances and losing weight, but these typically last only two to four months. Instead of cutting things out, research has shown that focusing on adding things in can make small changes […]
The new year is here and the insanity of the season has come to an end. As the holiday fog begins to lift from our brains, we now have more time to focus on the intentions we set for 2024. Some people may have set intentions that are health-related, like moving your body more or eating more nutritious foods, and some may have set the goal of losing a few pounds. If healthy, sustainable weight loss is on your resolutions […]
