Want to lighten up this Thanksgiving? Maybe save a few calories on some of the side dishes so you can splurge a bit more on dessert? Stuffing is my favorite Thanksgiving food, so when I saw this recipe from Hungry Girl was big on taste, but low in calories, I just had to share. What’s [...]

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Congrats to FFTV members – Sally, Lori, elmo5477, Andrew, and Mali – for winning last week’s drawing for Bunny Bucks, a coupon good for one free Blue Bunny product. Enjoy!

Tags: Blue Bunny, Food & Nutrition, free, giveaway, ice cream

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Earlier this week, we gave you the scoop on calories in popular pies and shared a healthy recipe for pumpkin pie. Turns out, the gals over at Does This Blog Make Us Look Fat? have also had their eye on pie this week. They even had their own pumpkin pie tasting before T-day – using [...]

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Tags: apple pie, favorite pies, Food & Nutrition, pie

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I don’t see this happening anytime soon, but… A new study finds banning fast-food advertising on TV in the U.S. could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent. But the report’s authors at the National Bureau of Economic Research question whether it would be practical to make this happen – [...]

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Both President-elect Barack Obama and the future first lady like to start their days with exercise. Barack Obama tells Men’s Health magazine he usually gets in about 45 minutes, six days a week, but says he’d prefer to workout for 90 minutes. And Michelle Obama tells People magazine she exercises for 90-minutes three times a [...]

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The first foreign office of the Food and Drug Administration opened Wednesday in Beijing after a recent string of contaminated Chinese food and drug imports to the United States. The U.S. says it intends to help the Chinese government improve its regulatory systems for exports. The FDA also plans to open offices in Guangzhou and [...]

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Women who get pregnant after they have weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies and healthier babies than obese women who become pregnant, says a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study finds pregnant women who lose weight after bariatric surgery may have lower rates of complications like gestational diabetes and preeclampsia. [...]

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Burger King is cutting the amount of sodium in its kids meals. The fast food chain says it will now limit sodium to 600 milligrams or less in kids meals advertised to children under 12 years old. BK is also promoting menu combinations with less than 650 calories for adults.

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Question: What temperature should your Thanksgiving turkey reach before it’s done? Answer: For it to be safe to eat, it should be 165-degrees in the innermost part of the thigh and wing and the thickest part of the breast. You do use a meat thermometer, don’t you??? And of course, you want it to be [...]

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