How To Calculate Nutritional Value For Any Recipe

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Wondering about the nutritional value and/or calories of a favorite recipe? It’s one of my pet peeves about cookbooks and interesting recipes found online or in a newspaper or magazine – the recipes rarely list the calories and key nutritional info (like fat, cholesterol, sodium, sugar, etc) included per serving.

Well, wonder no more.

I’ve written multiple posts about the fabulous app, My Fitness Pal (I Heart My Fitness Pal; I Love Me Some Nutrition Graphs; and Better Than Salad at Wendy’s to name a few) but I just discovered an update to their site that enables you to quickly and easily –

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Women Unaware of Heart Disease Risk

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A recent study in Canada found that 75% of women did not understand that high cholesterol (and high blood pressure) are major symptoms of heart disease.  And about half didn’t know that smoking increases risk of heart disease.

How is this possible?

How?

And if it’s true in Canada, I’ll bet it is true in the U.S. as well.

The study, by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology (CJC), reports results from “the first ever Canadian national survey of women that focuses on knowledge,

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