FCS3-590: Seafood: Are You Reeling in the Benefits?

Ingrid Adams, Nellie Buchannan, Brenda Cockerham, Janet Tietyen-Mullins | Aug. 6, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Seafood includes a large group of marine animals that live in the sea, fresh water, lakes, and rivers. Fish such as salmon, tuna, trout, and tilapia, along with shellfish such as shrimp, crab, and oysters, are included in this group.
Seafood is an important part of a balanced diet because it contains high-quality protein, good fats called omega-3 fatty acids, and other nutrients. However, many of us do not include enough seafood in our diets to get the full range of benefits.

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FCS3-562: MyPlate: Tools for Building a Balanced Plate

Ingrid Adams | Jul. 19, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Building a balanced diet is much like building a house: you must begin with a good foundation. A healthy eating foundation means including a variety of foods like fruits and vegetables, whole grains, dairy, and a mixture of lean proteins into an eating pattern.

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FCS3-560: Beverage Breakdown

Ingrid Adams | Jul. 11, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Water, 100 percent fruit and vegetable juices, and unsweetened beverages like coffee, tea, and sparkling water provide proper hydration. However, we often see sweetened coffee drinks, soda, lemonade, energy drinks, sweet tea, sports drinks, and more sugar-sweetened beverages on the menu or shelves at the grocery store. Often, these drinks contain high amounts of added sugar and little amounts of valuable nutrients that support our health.

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FCS3-524: Dietary Supplements: What are They and Who Needs Them

Sandra Bastin | Jul. 1, 2024 (Major Revision)

Choosing the right supplement is not a simple task, but with a little information, you can choose the best daily supplement for you. Traditionally, dietary supplements are products made of one or more essential nutrients, like vitamins and minerals, but they may also include amino acids, botanicals, or herbal ingredients. Supplements come in many forms including capsules, pills, gummies, powders, drinks, and bars.

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FCS3-525: Dietary Supplements: Be an Informed Consumer

Sandra Bastin | Jul. 1, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Vitamins, minerals, and herbal products are commonly referred to as dietary supplements. Botanicals or herbs, amino acids, and probiotics may also fall under the heading of dietary supplements. Sometimes, a health-care professional may recommend supplements to make sure an individual gets enough essential nutrients for the purpose of maintaining or improving health. Let's look at some basic information that will help you be a more informed consumer when choosing dietary supplements.

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FCS3-105: Nonnutritive Sweeteners

Sandra Bastin | Jun. 25, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Sucrose, or table sugar, is one of the most widely used ingredients in the foods we buy. We compare the sweetness of all other sweeteners to sugar, which is classified as a "nutritive sweetener." Nutritive sweeteners not only add flavor to our foods, but they also provide calories from carbohydrates. They are found naturally in some foods, like fruit and milk, and are added to other foods. Other nutritive sweeteners found on ingredient labels include fructose, dextrose, lactose, maltose, honey, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), molasses, invert sugars, concentrated fruit-juice sweeteners, sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, and other sugars.

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FCS3-618: Sweet Enough Without All That Sugar

Melissa Goodman, Jill Harris, Heather Norman-Burgdolf | Jun. 25, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Sweeteners have been around since the earliest history of man and provided carbohydrates as a source of energy. Fruit and honey were the first sweet foods available. Today, sugar is often added to foods for preservation, fermentation, and flavor addition or enhancement.

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FCS3-570: Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D?

Ingrid Adams | Jun. 20, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Vitamin D, also known as calciferol, is important for people of all ages. Vitamin D is unique in that it is a vitamin in foods we eat and is also a hormone that our bodies can make in small amounts. Research shows us that Vitamin D is important in a wide range of body functions, including supporting bone health, managing inflammation, maintaining immune health, and even managing blood sugar.

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FCS3-548: Think Your Plate

Ingrid Adams, Heather Norman-Burgdolf | May. 31, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Making nutritious food choices is a great way for people with diabetes to manage their blood glucose. Managing blood glucose helps reduce the risk for health complications.

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FCS3-554: Family Mealtime: Using MyPlate for Our Plates

Ingrid Adams, Anna Cason | May. 23, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Family mealtime gives us the opportunity to communicate, strengthen relationships, and introduce healthy eating habits. MyPlate gives a guideline for building nutritious meals. Small changes over time add up. Here are some simple steps to begin.