Food Choices

Vitamin B1, or thiamin(e), is a water soluble vitamin essential for maintaining health. Inadequate thiamin intake can cause adverse health effects. Why is thiamin essential and how much do you need each day?

Planning and organization can help simplify healthy eating practices. Creating a healthy food store cupboard will ensure that you have the necessary ingredients to prepare healthful meals and help you avoid last minute "not so healthy" food purchases.

Cantaloupe is a popular fruit. Just one cup of cantaloupe contains significant amounts of several essential vitamins and minerals which promote health.

Nutrition fact labels are a useful tool to help you make healthy food selections, but to fully benefit from the information they provide you may need to spend some time learning what all the numbers mean.

Vitamin K is involved in the synthesis of bone proteins and is freely available in green leafy vegetables. What other functions does vitamin K have and can you obtain sufficient vitamin K from the food you eat?