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Are you interested in how to bring centuries-old ways of healthy cooking and eating into your kitchen? Learn to prepare a Mediterranean-style salad that contains all the components of a healthy and satisfying meal, from the NYU farm to your table! Join Steinhardt Clinical Nutrition Alumna Layne Lieberman, RDN, MS, LDN, culinary nutritionist, and award-winning author of “Beyond The Mediterranean Diet: European Secrets Of The Super-Healthy”
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In North America, orzo is the name for a short-cut pasta shape that resembles a large grain of rice. It’s confusing because in Italian orzo means barley. And in Italy this rice-like pasta shape is called risoni. While orzo is traditionally made from white flour, it can also be made of whole grain durum wheat. Orzo is popular shape served in soups and salads. This lemony recipe is a easy and satisfying Mediterranean diet dish!
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As featured in Alzheimer’s Today Magazine

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Traditionally Italian Piccata is made with veal or chicken. This recipe calls for chicken cutlets or chicken tenders. It can

The good news is that the Mediterranean diet is still rated the best overall diet according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking.According to my award winning book, Beyond The Mediterranean Diet, European Secrets Of The Super-Healthy, which is based on the principles of the Mediterranean diet, the Dash diet and a plant-based diet.
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(Washington, D.C., December 29, 2020) – Nutrition in America took a major step forward today with the publication of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025. Jointly published by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) every five years, the guidelines provide science-based recommendations designed to foster healthy dietary patterns for Americans of all ages – from birth through older adults.
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