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Changing Your Diet: Choosing Nutrient-rich Foods

Changing your diet to include nutrient-rich foods is a healthier option and can reduce your risk for chronic diseases.

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Diet Choices to Prevent Cancer

A healthy diet can lower your risk of certain cancers. It also may help prevent other conditions such as type…

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Emotional Eating

Emotional eating is when you eat to make yourself feel better or because you are bored. It is different than…

Health Effects of Added Sugar

Sugar is a simple carbohydrate that provides calories for your body to use as energy. There are two main types…

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern. You fast during a certain period of time each day. You then eat during…

Keto Diet

The keto diet, or ketogenic diet, is one that is high in fat intake and low in carbohydrate intake.

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Low-Calorie Diets

Eating fewer calories typically results in weight loss. If you add exercise, you may not need to lower your daily…

The paleo diet, often known as the "caveman diet," focuses on lean meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, and healthy fats.

The paleo diet is sometimes nicknamed “the caveman diet,” as it is tied to the diets of our ancestors. It’s based on food sources for humans during the Paleolithic area — or the “Stone Age.” The staples of the paleo diet are lean meats…