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Healthy Restaurant Dining
10 Tips to keep your family eating right
by Pamela White
Dining out is a necessity for many families. Finding time to cook between soccer practice and the junior high band concert is impossible. Parents working overtime at their jobs ease their time crunch by bringing take-out home for dinner. It's a way to cope with hectic schedules, yes, but families also dine out to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, good report cards, and raises.

Beantown's Best
Healthy eating in the Boston area
by Ursula Furi-Perry
Forget that calorie-packed clam chowder. Forgo that lethal Boston cream pie. Boston’s newest culinary attractions serve up a healthy and light fare, using a myriad of vegetarian, organic and raw ingredients. From ethnic-vegetarian to raw foods delights, many restaurants now offer a healthful yet tasty alternative to diners. Reviews of health-conscious restaurants are popping up in papers all over town, and loyal clients are proving that healthy eating isn’t just a passing phenomenon.

The Color of Health
Produce for Better Health Foundation
Even in winter, sweet, juicy grapes can grace your table and frequent your lunch bag. When it's winter here, it's summer in Chile; and thanks to dedicated growers and the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, enjoying a colorful array of grapes as part of your 5 to 9 daily servings of fruits and vegetables is deliciously easy. Three quarters of a cup of grapes provides about 90 calories, about six percent daily value of potassium, is a good source of vitamin C, and provides an abundance of health-promoting phytochemicals. These phytochemicals, particularly the flavonoids, are concentrated in grape skins. Flavonoids help fight heart disease by lowering blood cholesterol levels and all varieties of grapes contain flavonoids.

Go Meatless On Mondays
Resolve to feel, eat better in the new year
Each year at this time we start thinking about resolutions. For many, eating right and taking better care of themselves is a reoccurring, and quickly forgotten, declaration. This year, the Meatless Monday Campaign and Gardenburger offer a simple suggestion for health-seeking consumers: skip meat on Mondays. "Eating healthier and feeling better is an ideal way to jumpstart your New Year," says Ian Lev, national project director for the Meatless Monday Campaign. "Skipping meat just once a week will help reduce saturated fat, encourage healthier meal planning, and put you on the road to improved health."

News Briefs



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Cherries and Berries in Winter-Oh My!

Go Meatless On Mondays 

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Baja Fresh Introduces New 'Lifestyle Choices' Menu Items

One In Four American Women Make Commitment To Eat Healthier

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