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Misjudging food serving sizes is a common mistake people make when counting calories. Test your serving size knowledge of salad dressing.

What is the correct serving size for regular salad dressing?

1/4 Cup
2 Tablespoons
1 Tablespoon

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Recent Nutrition Articles

	Milk Your Diet: A New Approach to Fuel Your Weight Loss Efforts American Dietetic Association: Calcium may help you lose weight.
	Moderate-fat May Be Better Than Low-fat Diet Reuters Health Information, February 11, 2004

Recommended Books on Nutrition

	American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide John Wiley, 2002 (2nd edition) Provides comprehensive, reliable information on eating healthy. Includes an expanded chapter on women’s health and nutrition.
	Habits Not Diets: The Secret to Lifetime Weight Control Ferguson, James & Cassandra, 2003 (4th edition) Offers a detailed behavior modification program lasting 21 weeks for a do-it-yourself approach to weight loss.
	Dr. Kushner’s Personality Type Diet Nancy & Robert Kushner, 2004 Explores practical methods to restructure problematic eating and exercise habits related to personality.
	Healthy Eating for Life for Women Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2002 Looks at how women’s bodies work and how common health problems arise. Provides nutritional guidelines and recipes.

Nutrition Links

	Nutrition Facts (American Heart Association)
	Food and Nutrition Information (American Dietetic Association)
	Determine Your Nutritional Health Checklist (American Academy of Family Physicians)
	Food and Nutrition Center (Mayo Clinic)
	A Rating Guide to Nutrition Web Sites (Tufts University)
	Weight Loss and Control (NIDDK)
	Finding the Right Cookbook (Mayo Clinic)

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