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Healthy Eating Habits Start at Home
The American Heart Association offers helpful information on making healthy choices for your whole family to achieve a heart-healthy diet.
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Top 10 Tips for Dealing With a Picky Eater
The American Heart Association offers these top 10 tips for dealing with a picky eater.
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Eating When Not Hungry
The American Heart Association explains the different reasons why you may eat when you're not hungry, and how to control your binges.
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What's so super about superfoods?
The American Heart Association explains that many so-called ?super? foods may be good for your heart and your overall health, but not by themselves. Learn more about how to incorporate them into an overall healthy diet to gain the benefits.
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How to Prevent Heart Disease and Be Heart Healthy
Adopting simple lifestyle changes can help prevent heart disease and be heart healthy. Learn tips on how to be on the path to heart healthy life.
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How the Heart-Check Food Certification Program Works
Look for the Heart-Check mark when grocery shopping or dining out to quickly and easily spot heart-healthy foods with confidence.
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Cutting Sugar Causes Drop in Heart Disease Risk Factors Among Obese Children
Reducing sugar consumption in obese children, rather than cutting calories or starch, or losing weight, leads to a sharp decline in triglycerides and a key protein called ApoC-III – two features that are associated with heart disease in adulthood.
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Why Cutting Back on Fat Isn’t Enough to Help the Heart
You shouldn't just avoid fatty foods like red meat, dairy and cheese
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Understanding Expiration Dates: How do I know when my food's gone bad?
The American Heart Association's Simple Cooking with Heart program helps you understand expiration dates on various types of food products.
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Baby Food: How to Make Your Own
The American Heart Association shows you how to make your own heart-healthy baby food in this lesson and video. It's easier than you think!
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More Than Two Thirds of Americans Are Overweight or Obese
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10 American Foods You Should Never Eat
Most US foods, like farm-raised salmon and genetically modified (GM) papaya, are banned in other countries due to harmful food additives.
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Less Than 3 Percent of Americans Live a Healthy Lifestyle
Factors studied included not smoking, eating right, exercising and keeping a low percentage of body fat
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What’s on your table? How America’s diet has changed over the decades
We're eating more chicken, cheese and yogurt, but less beef, margarine and ice cream.
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Quiz: The Facts About Fish Oil and Omega-3s
Just how much does fish oil help your heart and your overall health? Take WebMD’s quiz to find out about omega-3s, mercury worries, and how to avoid fish burps.
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When Vegetable Oil Isn't as Healthy As You Think
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Brown Rice: Health Benefits & Nutrition Facts
Brown rice is a highly nutritious grain. It is good for the heart, aids digestion and may reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes and high cholesterol.
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Sugar is Killing Us. Here's Everything You Need to Know.
Sugar-related illnesses are skyrocketing (diabetes, heart disease, and dementia, among them). Yet Americans are shoveling in more sweet stuff than ever. We know it's bad. We just can't stop. Science shows it's not simply a matter of self-control: Sugar, it turns out, might be as addictive as hard drugs. Could you be hooked?
