As a Patient Centered Medical Home, The Family Health Clinic provides comprehensive health care and works with you to reach your health goals. You can start pursuing a healthier lifestyle today by choosing to have a balanced and healthy diet. While that can sound overwhelming, healthy eating doesn’t have to be hard. We at the Family Health Clinic are celebrating National Nutrition Month by showing you five website that have tons of delicious and healthy recipes.
What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl Recipes
Easily search through over a thousand recipes to find healthy options for your family straight from the United States Department of Agriculture. You can narrow your search in a variety of ways. Search for a specific course, nutritional focus (vary your protein, eat less dairy, eat more vegetables, etc.), by food group, cooking equipment, cuisine and more. You can even select the maximum number of calories per serving you want in your recipe.
Click here to go to the list of What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl Recipes.
Delicious Heart Healthy Recipes
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health Web-site features great recipes, family resources, healthy shopping and cooking tips, and videos. These recipes are limited in saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, and sodium, and they’re moderate in calories.
Click here to go to the list of Delicious Heart Healthy Recipes.
The Mayo Clinic DASH Diet Recipes
Have you ever heard of the DASH diet? It was was developed to lower blood pressure without medication in research sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health. The Mayo Clinic has an extensive list of recipes that are ideal for those who are looking to follow the DASH diet and lower their blood pressure.
Click here to go to the list of health DASH recipes.
Do you know if you should be watching your blood pressure? Finding out is as simple as coming in to the Family Health Clinic and getting a blood pressure screening. Call (800) 321-5043 to make an appointment.
A Healthier You Recipes
These recipes are based on the dietary guidelines for Americans and provided by the Department of Health and Human Services. They provide almost 100 easy-to-make recipes that take a maximum of 90 minutes. They recipes are separated into three categories: 30 minutes, 60 minutes, or 90 minutes. One of our personal favorites? Spaghetti with turkey meat sauce.
Click here to go to the list of A Healthier You! recipes.
As an added bonus, download the Sample 2 Week Menu from Choosemyplate.gov that provides two weeks worth of meal planning that meets the American dietary guidelines. Click here to download!
Healthy and Thrifty Holiday Recipes from the USDA
The USDA has a list of healthy and thrifty recipes for almost any holiday you can image. Learn how to make sugarless oatmeal cookies for this upcoming St. Patrick’s Day or start prepping for Easter early by learning how to make heavenly deviled eggs. They include a full menu for each holiday along with the approximate price per serving.
Click here to go to the list of USDA healthy and thrifty holiday recipes.
Did you know that March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month?
Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the United States and the second leading cause of death from cancer (healthfinder.gov). It affects all racial and ethnic groups and is most often found in people ages 50 and older.
Learn more about out how you can prevent colorectal cancer, here.
