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Reducing alcohol intake with mocktails can positively affect your health.

The concept of “food as medicine” recognizes the role of your diet in managing your health.

Smart decisions on how to snack can improve health and make road trips a little easier.

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.