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Less Salt, More Fruit, Veggies: New Dietary Guidelines From USDA and HHS

February 12th, 2011

By: Elizabeth Rahavi, RD (Join us to discuss the guidelines with special guest @FoodInsight: #FoodChat, Tuesday evening on Twitter from 8-10 EST.) On Monday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services released the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Policy Report. These new federal guidelines, which are updated every five years,

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#FoodChat this Tuesday: Eating Better in 2011

January 16th, 2011

FoodChat is going to be extra interesting this week thanks to our special guest Gloria Tsang. In addition to being a registered Dietitian, Gloria is the founder of HealthCastle.com, “The largest online nutrition community community run by registered dietitians.” Gloria said she started HealthCastle as a personal blog when a family member was battling cancer.

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Prepare for the Holidays with #FoodChat

December 18th, 2010

The #AgChat & #FoodChat communities are certainly a fun collection of eclectic individuals. Whether its farming or food, we welcome everyone choosing to do things their own way. The discussions on Tuesday night are to increase understanding and extend our networks. That’s exactly what this week’s moderator for #FoodChat — Shaun Haney of RealAgriculture —

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#FoodChat – Talking Food and Health with IFIC 7-20-2010

July 19th, 2010

The following blog post was submitted by the team at the International Food Information Council Foundation as a way to provide additional information as we prepare for tomorrow night’s (July 20, 2010) #FoodChat convo on Twitter. We are taking questions from the community via direct message to @FoodChat to help guide the conversation (those not

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TWEET ARCHIVES #AGCHAT & #FOODCHAT

June 23rd, 2010

For the twitter conversations hosted on Tuesday nights at 8 pm Eastern, see the #AgChat & #FoodChat FAQs. This Week’s Questions The conversations on Twitter each week, revolve around topics and questions that come from the community. We will work with moderators to post the current convo topic and questions here on a weekly basis as

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