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Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Bet Big on Brown Rice!
When it comes to putting more fiber in your diet, eating whole grains like brown rice is a good place to start. Brown rice has three times the fiber and a quarter more protein than white rice, read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Savor Some Soup!
Did you know that a cup of soup a day keeps the pounds away? No, we’re not talking about the cabbage-soup diet fad, or the chicken-soup-for-the-soul craze. This is about having a cup of read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Make Breakfast No Yolk!
Eggs are a terrific source of lean protein, but if you’re trying to cut the cholesterol in your diet, you might want to go yolk-free — each yolk contains an eye-popping 186 grams of read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Dress Up Your Salad!
Bottled dressings make eating salad anytime a breeze, but they’re full of additives, preservatives, and artificial flavors (MSG and potassium sorbate, anyone?). Why not try making up an read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Start the Day with a Smoothie!
Want a satisfying super-healthy breakfast that takes only 10 minutes to make and gives you healthy servings of fruit and dairy? All you need is a cup of low- or nonfat milk, 1/3 cup plain or read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Trade Out Store-Bought Pasta Sauce!
You don’t have to be Italian to know that pasta and tomatoes just go together — and tomatoes are vitamin C superstars. But commercial tomato-based pasta sauces amp up the sodium (more than read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Pop Goes the Healthiest Snack!
Forget the potato chips. Dust off the popcorn popper and you’ll have a zero-cholesterol, whole-grain nosh that’s fun to eat and packed with fiber. Plus, according to the U.S. Department of read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Get Sauced with Cranberries!
Sure we eat cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving, but how many of us eat it throughout the year? Making cranberries a more regular part of your diet may help prevent breast cancer, according to read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Fry Your Chicken—in the Oven!
Crunchy, moist and delicious, chicken cooked up in the frying pan is a pretty hard dish to give up. But you can have all the flavor minus half the fat if you ditch the bubbling oil on the read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Have Your Cake!
But switch up the slice of chocolate or yellow cake for a sweet, airy piece of angel food cake. Unlike traditional cakes, angel food is made with whipped egg whites and contains no fat, no read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Pour on the Red Wine!
You can protect your heart and even drop a few pounds by making the switch from white wine to red. Now, that’s a resolution you can easily keep! A favorite Zinfandel or Pinot Noir, read more -
Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Make Peace with Frozen Peas!
Not all frozen vegetables are created equal: Peas — harvested at their flavor peak and flash frozen to protect their nutrients — are a healthy staple that often taste better than fresh read more