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VA dietitian has holiday suggestions for recipe swaps and cookbook options. Holiday traditions can continue while you benefit from healthy ingredient substitutions.

A VA dietitian nutritionist celebrates Sweet Potato Month with healthy food facts for Veterans. February is also African American Heritage Month: Check out her West African sweet potato peanut stew.

Beth Blair, a MOVE! Dietitian, dives into the first episode […]

Tucked away in the far corner of a refrigerator or a pantry shelf is a container whose contents are past their prime. Here are tips to reduce food waste.

Fear was a great motivator for Marvin Williams. His younger brother died from a heart attack, a sad wake-up call telling him to do something about his weight. He did. So far, he’s lost 100 pounds.

The program is designed for Veterans who are currently overweight or obese, with a BMI of 25 or greater. The meetings are a time for nutrition and physical activity education along with a weekly weigh-in.

Osteoporosis means “porous bone” and, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, up to half of women and up to a quarter of men over 50 will break a bone due to this “silent disease”. Most people don’t know that their bones have weakened until a break occurs. Other possible signs of osteoporosis include a reduction in height or the upper back curving forward.