Get Up And Do Something: Tips for cooking healthier in 2013

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Tips for cooking healthier in 2013 Jan 2nd 2013, 05:39 New Year's Day is notable for resolutions. If a healthier diet is on your list, just choosing the right foods isn't enough; how you prepare your meals can be just as important as what you put in your shopping cart, according to Bonnie Taub-Dix, a nutrition expert and author of "Read It Before You Eat It" (Plume, 2010). For example, cooking certain foods makes their nutrients more available, like the lycopene in tomatoes and the carotene in carrots. In other cases, common cooking practices can diminish the nutritional quality of your food or add unnecessary fat and sodium. That's true even for some habits you might think are good ones. Here are six tips for getting the most nutrients from your meals, adapted from an article in the January issue of Consumer Reports on Health, our monthly health newsletter.

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