Sugar Substitutes and Your Health

Sugar Substitutes and Your Health

As a society, we crave sweets. Excessive sugar intake could be contributing to many health conditions including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and kidney disease.   The search for the perfect sugar substitute continues. However, despite all...
How the WIC Program Can Help You

How the WIC Program Can Help You

Providing a child a healthy diet through pregnancy and into childhood is important to promote adequate weight gain/loss and/or adequate growth and development. For starters, women need a variety of nutrients such as, folic acid, iron, protein, calcium, fiber, and...
Cover Your Butt

Cover Your Butt

Colorectal cancer is the second leading deadliest cancer that affects both men and women in the US. This statistic doesn’t have to be this way because early screenings can catch precancerous polyps before they become cancerous. The CDC recommends that all men and...