This month, Congress blocked improvements to school lunches proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Here at True Citrus we first heard of this as the “pizza-is-a-vegetable” scandal. 

Here’s what happened as we understand it: way back in 2004, in response to the childhood obesity problem, Congress asked the U.S.D.A. to improve nutrition in the school lunch program, which hasn’t been upgraded in 15 years. 

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At True Citrus we greet the coming holidays with joy. Partly because we LOVE the sugar cookies, festive drinks, the rich sauces - ALL of it!

But we know holiday foods add up to extra pounds we don’t love. If you’re like us, you might find the following strategies help you stay on track with your weight goals between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.

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Do any of your girlfriends drink sugary sodas a lot, but never seem to gain weight?

Slim women may think soda isn’t affecting their health. But it turns out thin women have just as much chance of getting heart disease from sugary drinks as the rest of us. 

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We Americans love meat! Along with apple pie, the hamburger is one of our classic American foods.

But there are some good reasons why it makes sense to skip burgers and other meat one day a week, if not more. That’s what the Meatless Mondays Movement is all about.

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We love True Citrus consulting nutritionist Diane Hendriks because she’s all about food, just like us.

We also love her easy ways to cheat weight gain.  The way Diane cooks this Thanksgiving we can have all the goodies we’ve looked forward too all year – and not hate ourselves on Nov. 25th! 

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We know you can hurt your health with certain foods. Soda, fried food, and foods with loads of extra salt and artificial ingredients. So it seems to make sense that you can improve your health with other ones.

All doctors don’t agree that you can actually boost your immune system through the foods you eat. But for those who do, here’s 9 items that should be on your plate right now, says Prevention magazine.

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Apparently more and more kids these days are enduring the pain of kidney stones. Some of them as young as 5 or 6 years old!

Urologist Dr. Caleb Nelson at Harvard Medical School told the NY Times: “The older doctors would say in the ’70s and ’80s they’d see a kid with a stone once every few months. Now we see kids once a week or less.” 

More hospitals are even opening Pediatric kidney stone centers to deal with the increase in children with stones. 

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