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What Is The Difference Between A Registered Dietitian And Nutritionist?
(DougCookRD.com) Education, training accreditation, and accountability The title Registered Dietitian, Professional Dietitian, and Dietitian are protected by law through provincial legislation. Only...
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Does Milk Or Dairy Foods Cause Osteoporosis?
(DougCookRD.com) You’ve probably seen the ‘Got Milk’ ads before, the ones with celebrities sporting a milk mustache with a list of the nutrients found in milk. As kids we were told to “drink your milk”...
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Sugar Is Sugar By Any Other Name
(DougCookRD.com) Sugar is the new fat, or maybe it’s the new sodium since fat took a harder beating a couple of decades earlier than sodium did. If you haven’t been tuned in, sugar is being blamed for...
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Top Vitamin D Research of 2014
(DougCookRD.com) Research on vitamin D3 continues to pour in. The best sites on the net for information on vitamin D3 are Vitamin D Council, Grassroots Health, Vitamin D Society, and Vitamin D Wiki....
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Vegan? It’s More Than B12 And Zinc That’s At Risk
(DougCookRD.com) Vegetarian and vegan eating is more popular than ever before for a variety of reasons. This post isn’t about delving into the many reasons why a person might choose this dietary...
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Getting More Vitamin C. What’s The Evidence?
(DougCookRD.com) Vitamin C, a.k.a. ascorbic acid, is probably one of the best known vitamins around. It is water-soluble meaning that it cannot be stored in the body like fat soluble vitamins A, D, E...
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Product Review: enerjive™ Quinoa Crackers – Italian
(DougCookRD.com) Manufacturer: enerjive™ The Position: food should taste good and be good for you Ingredients: Organic quinoa flakes, millet flour, whole sunflower seeds, hulled millet, light buckwheat...
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Medicine’s Epic Fail For Managing Chronic Diseases
(DougCookRD.com) During the last half of the 20th century, medicine and healthcare became increasingly focused on treatment and with good reason; medical procedures and medications were able to turn...
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Mercury Toxicity. Do You Really Need To Worry About Eating Fish?
(DougCookRD.com) There’s no shortage of fear-mongering around the evils of mercury. We hear about its use in vaccines and dental amalgams but where we hear it the most is in any discussion about eating...
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Food Allergies: When The Foods You Eat Can Make You Sick
(DougCookRD.com) Photo credit For some, the word allergy conjures up images or memories of runny noses and itchy eyes, for others it may be digestive issues, and inflamed skin. Regardless of how they...
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Zerowater Water Filtration
(DougCookRD.com) This post isn’t about fluid [a.k.a. water] requirements or hydration, you can read all about that here The ‘Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day Myth” Debunked. Part 1 and here Part 2. This...
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Why Are Dietitians So Afraid Of Supplements?
(DougCookRD.com) Why ARE dietitians afraid of using supplements? It’s something I can’t seem to wrap my head around. We hear it all the time, ‘if you follow a balanced diet, you’ll get all the vitamins...
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Finding Religion Through Food. Tom And Gisele Brady’s Diet
(DougCookRD.com) Image credit / Andrew H Walker. Getty Images We’re not even 3 weeks into the new year and we’ve got the requisite story about salvation through diet. Hey. Don’t get me wrong, as an...
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Debunking Egg Myths. Part 1
(DougCookRD.com)Never before has the simple act of eating become more complicated. You can’t turn on the TV or surf the internet without being confronted with nutrition-related information that is...
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Debunking Egg Myths. Part 2
(DougCookRD.com) In Debunking Egg Myths Part 1, I deconstructed the fundamentals of egg nutrition, explained how the nutritional content of different eggs vary, debunked concerns about cholesterol and...
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Is Cancer Prevention Really Found In A ‘Superfood’?
(DougCookRD.com) The World Health Organization and the American Institute for Cancer Research estimate that between 67 and 72%of all cancer cases are preventable and that prevention offers the most...
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Sugar. It’s More Than Just Sweetness
(DougCookRD.com) If you believed all the hype about sugar, you’d be led to believe that it is solely responsible for the epidemic rates of overweight and obesity, sky-rocketing diabetes, heart disease,...
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Could A Leaky Gut Be Contributing To Your Health Woes?
(DougCookRD.com) Have you ever heard of leaky gut? I know most haven’t. When I was working on the book The Complete Leaky Gut Health & Diet Guide , people would just stared back at me with a blank...
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Does The Cholesterol In Food Matter?
(DougCookRD.com) Canada has one of the longest life expectancies in the world. Many of the top causes of death such as cancer and cardiovascular disease can be prevented to a large degree by lifestyle...
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Love Oats But Hate Gluten?
(DougCookRD.com) I’ve been at this dietitian thing for a very long time and for just as long, there’s been an ongoing debate as to whether or not oats can be part of a gluten-free diet; some say...
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