Healthy Eating
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Eating Healthy in the Holiday Season from an Expert on Food Decision-Making
Kelly Haws, Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr., Professor of Marketing, offers 3 tips for how to make healthy choices this holiday season. Read MoreNov 18, 2022
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Community Kitchen teaches seniors healthy cooking skills
“The Community Kitchen program is designed to work within income restraints and offer an opportunity to help folks try new foods,” Branam said. “This particular project is for older adults, as so many of them are managing diabetes, hypertension or prediabetes. We talk through options like reducing carbs or reducing sodium and share strategic ways to maintain the tastiness of food so they can still really enjoy it.” Read MoreJul 28, 2022
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Research Snapshot: Eat breakfast and stop late-night snacking
Eating a larger, protein-filled breakfast is one of the best ways to maintain a healthy weight. A smaller but still significant change would be to avoid late-night snacking. Est. reading time: 3.5 mins. Read MoreOct 28, 2021
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Nutrition professor shares four tips for healthy eating while sheltering at home
Jamie Pope, registered dietitian nutritionist and assistant professor of practice in Medicine, Health and Society, offers four tips for maintaining proper nutrition while balancing the stress of self-quarantine. Read MoreApr 10, 2020
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Vanderbilt Campus Dining boosts healthy options, sustainability
The "Impossible Burger" and other plant-based dining choices along with sustainable packaging are improvements that Campus Dining customers can look forward to in the new school year. Read MoreAug 7, 2018
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Consumers focus on food types, not portions, when it comes to perceived healthiness
New research from Vanderbilt University finds that consumers lose sight of caloric intake when they think they’re eating healthy foods. Read MoreMay 18, 2018
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Vandy Cooks: Healthy cooking with beef July 28
The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center and Health Plus present "Vandy Cooks Healthy with Beef" July 28. Read MoreJun 29, 2017
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Food study seeks to help employees make healthier choices
When dining in the Medical Center North breakroom or the Simply-to-Go counter at Courtyard Café, Vanderbilt University Medical Center employees can get a little help making informed food choices by picking a color: green, yellow or red. Read MoreNov 17, 2016
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Healthy Eating at Work webinar March 16; Break Room Challenge March 23
Join Health Plus' celebration of National Nutrition Month, and make healthy eating the norm. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Vanderbilt health educator offers tips for healthy tailgating
Grilled vegetables are healthy and satisfying. (iStock) It’s football season—and that means game day parties and tailgating. What if there was a way to enjoy game day snacks without having to join the team workout to burn them off? Vanderbilt health educator Stacey Kendrick offers hope: “Tailgate… Read MoreOct 9, 2014
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Author Courtney E. Martin to discuss best-selling book ‘Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters’ March 25
Award-winning author Courtney E. Martin will deliver the 2014 Cuninggim Lecture on Women in Culture and Society at Vanderbilt University March 25. Her talk, “Perfect Girls: A Generation of Young Women Were Told We Could Do Anything and Somehow Heard that We had to be Everything,” is free and open to the public. Read MoreMar 5, 2014
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Monthly tastings to highlight available healthy food options
Beginning Wednesday, Jan. 22, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Courtyard Café will host a healthy food tasting in the dining area on the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Read MoreJan 16, 2014
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Pennies vs. Pounds: How “supersizing” could actually lead to healthier choices
New research finds consumers may be just as willing to supersize healthy food as they are fast food if they feel they’re getting a deal. Read MoreJan 2, 2014
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New session of Weight Watchers at Work begins Nov. 13
Say no to yo-yo dieting by joining the fall session of Weight Watchers at Work at Vanderbilt. Read MoreOct 21, 2013
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Healthy entrée station set for Courtyard Café
Beginning Sept. 1, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Courtyard Café will offer a healthy entrée station from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday-Thursday. Read MoreAug 22, 2013