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DOLE NUTRITION ON FACEBOOK!

For the past seven years we've published the newsletter to an audience now in excess of 2.5 million subscribers -- and while we occasionally receive letters and emails -- the conversation has essentially been one way. Well, we're changing that -- starting with the launch of the official Dole Facebook page at facebook.com/dole. We're posting diet tips, nutrition videos and responding to reader questions and suggestions right on the Dole wall.     Continue ...

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ONION ROUND UP

If solving a mystery is like peeling an onion, then the opposite is also true, as the true nutrition benefits of different allium varieties are not revealed at first glance. When evaluated narrowly in terms of conventional nutrients, onions may seem like nutrition zeroes -- but it's their lesser-known phytochemicals that make     Continue ...

• VIDEO: SEXIEST VEGETARIAN - AT 71
• FOLATE FEEDS YOUR EARS

VITAMIN C BOOSTS BRAIN

If your tiny tot avoids fruit and veggies, he or she could be courting curtailed mental abilities. Shocking, but that is the implication of a just-published study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Danish researchers observed that young guinea pigs on a low-vitamin C diet exhibited the human equivalent of learning defects -- taking up to six times longer to swim through a water maze. Data     Continue ...

MIMI'S GREEN DRINK

ADD the apples, celery, cucumber, lemon and spinach to your blender or juicer.  Add water (omitting water if using juicer).

BLEND until smooth.

(Mimi recommends switching fruits and greens for variety and nutrition benefits, using seasonal organic produce whenever possible.)     Continue ...