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Healthy, hearty foods for winter nutrition

January 11, 2024 Nutrition,  soup,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center

Teresia O’Connor provides insight on how certain healthy and hearty meals we eat during this time of year are good for our body.

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Is your lunchbox lacking? Tips for packing healthier lunches

December 5, 2014 back to school,  Dr. Karen Cullen,  Dr. Teresia O'Connor,  healthy lunches,  Nutrition,  Nutrition and Wellness,  packed lunches,  school lunches,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center

While they may be packed with love, researchers at the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital found most lunches packed

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Breakfast key for student focus

September 19, 2014 breakfast,  Dr. Teresia O'Connor,  Healthy Eating,  Healthy Lifestyle,  Nutrition,  Nutrition and Wellness,  pediatrics,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center

Children who eat a nutritious breakfast in the morning have an easier time focusing on their schoolwork since they are not distracted by hunger, according

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Natural way to help premature infants grow

August 15, 2014 Dr. Amy Hair,  Healthcare,  human milk fat,  Nutrition,  Nutrition and Wellness,  pediatrics,  premature babies,  Research,  Texas Children's Hospital,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center

Baylor researchers have found a natural way to supplement premature infants diets. Instead of using oils or infant formula, they found that a cream supplement,

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Recipe: Your new go-to muffin

April 30, 2014 Children's Nutrition Research Center,  Healthy Eating,  Nutrition,  Nutrition and Wellness,  Recipes,  Sugar Heart and Life,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center

Wake up with a sweet tooth? Step away from the cheese danish and pastry. Move past that sugar-laden cereal and head into the kitchen to

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What’s a serving size?

March 17, 2014 Andy Phifer,  Healthy Eating,  Nutrition,  Nutrition and Wellness,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center

Sure you know what the five food groups are, but how well do you know the recommended serving sizes of a particular food? While you

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Looking to improve your health? Know your BMI

March 3, 2014 Children's Nutrition Research Center,  Healthcare,  Healthy Eating,  Healthy Lifestyle,  Men's Health,  Nutrition,  Nutrition and Wellness,  pediatrics,  Teen Health,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center,  Women's Health

Throughout the month of March, Momentum will be featuring health and wellness information in celebration of National Nutrition Month. Looking to get a read on

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‘Science Guys’ merge research and entrepreneurship

January 15, 2014 Avon Foundation,  Breast Cancer,  Breast Cancer Startup Challenge,  Cancer,  Center for Advancing Innovation,  Education,  National Institutes of Health,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center

David Ferguson and Ryan Fleischmann, two self-proclaimed “science guys” at Baylor College of Medicine, are expanding their horizons from the lab to the board room

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Do kids need sports drinks?

August 6, 2013 Baylor College of Medicine,  Nutrition,  Nutrition and Wellness,  pediatrics,  sports drinks,  USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center

Although children may request sports drinks, they offer little advantage over cool water, say nutritionists at Baylor College of Medicine and the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition

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Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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