Category Archives: Nutrition

Cooking With Carbs

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Whole wheat pasta, wild rice and legumes.  These are all very healthy additions to our everyday meals.  Many people stay away from these items, not because they do not like them, but because they do not know how to prepare them correctly.  Others do not know how to figure cooked amounts.   For example-what is a serving of rice, and how much uncooked rice will serve a certain amount of family members?  I know that I have overestimated how much rice
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Small Steps to Health and Wealth

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New Years Day, 2009-millions of resolutions were made. Today, 75% of them have already been broken. The biggest problem when making resolutions is that people start out at full-throttle and then find it is too hard to maintain. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is here to help! They will be offering web seminars throughout the first half of the year to get you on your way. The secret to obtaining your goals is to do it a little at a time! Do
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High Fructose Corn Syrup, is it an Evil Sugar?

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In the media high fructose corn syrup has often been blamed for America's obesity epidemic.  High fructose corn syrup was quickly introduced to soft drinks and many processed foods in the U.S. from 1975-1985.  It is not naturally occurring in nature and is made when changing the sugar in corn into a type of sugar called fructose.  Fructose is the sweetest type of sugar and less can be used to sweeten products, thus making it an inexpensive food or beverage
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