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Better-Than-Canned Chicken Soup

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Chicken soup from a can can be high in sodium and low in nutrition, leaving you bloated and unsatisfied. But when you make it at home you can use better ingredients, making a stomach-soothing hearty and healthy one-bowl meal. It’s good to make with leftovers from a whole chicken, or you can use … [Read more…]

Filed Under: Easy-Not-Queasy Recipes Tagged With: Easy-Not-Queasy, Low-Nausea recipes, protein

Pregnancy Craving: Fish Tacos

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Quick, versatile and nutritious fish tacos are high in protein and essential fatty acids and can be customized to anyone’s taste. Add cabbage and avocado for a boost of fiber, B6 and magnesium. Salt and pan-fry on high heat with a little oil on high heat: low-mercury white fish such as … [Read more…]

Filed Under: Easy-Not-Queasy Recipes, Pregnancy (general) Tagged With: Low-Nausea recipes, protein

Can A Vegan Diet Be Healthy During Pregnancy?

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A viral Internet story has ben making the rounds about of Loni Jane Anderson, a 25-year-old pregnant Australian woman on a vegan diet that involves 10 bananas a day and is 80 percent carbs, 10 percent fat and 10 percent protein. Could this possibly be healthy? And could someone overdose on potassium … [Read more…]

Filed Under: Nutrition Tagged With: carbohydrates, fats, macronutrients, Nutrition, potassium, protein, veganism, vegetarianism

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