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5 Snacks for Your Bike Ride 

A good biking snack is about more than just energy. It needs to be portable, provide muscles with the nutrients they need, be eaten on a good schedule and can't melt. Here are five super snacks for you to tuck into your jersey pockets.

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Bike Snacks

Four Ways to Eat a
Better Breakfast

Based on modern science (and the wisdom of mothers throughout the ages), breakfast is a very important meal. Research shows breaking an overnight fast with a balanced meal can make a major difference in overall health, especially for children.

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Bring Back Breakfast

Tips for Eating Out 

Food choices away from home are important to your health and weight because many of us are eating more meals out. Fortunately, making healthful and delicious choices in restaurants is also easier today.

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tips for eating out

Calcium and Bone Health

Bones don't come with a lifetime guarantee. They need continuous maintenance or they can weaken and break. If your diet is low in calcium, your body will take calcium from your bones to keep blood calcium at normal levels. 

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Bowl of Yogurt

Tip of the Day: Food Safety through the Years

Did you know that food safety practices such as pasteurization, safe canning and water treatment have resolved many foodborne disease epidemics in the U.S.? Unfortunately, new food poisoning risks have still managed to emerge.

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The Academy Reminds Consumers to Follow Sodium Guidelines

Prompted by a report issued by the Institute of Medicine on the consequences of dietary sodium reduction, the Academy reminds everyone to keep sodium intake within the recommendations of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and to seek the expert advice of a registered dietitian nutritionist.

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Academy Reaches 75,000 Members

While many professional member associations in the United States are experiencing membership declines, membership in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics rose in the past year to 75,067 — the largest in the Academy's 96-year history and the eighth consecutive year of growth.

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