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On average, American adults eat four times a day, one of which is composed solely of junk food.

The Ohio State University researchers found that consumers nationwide consume up to 500 calories a day from sugary foods that aren’t healthy.

This substantial amount accounts for around 25% of their daily caloric intake and approximately 33% of their daily added sugar intake.

“Until you really look at it, the impact’s magnitude is not fully apparent. Without really being a meal, snacks add a meal’s worth of nutrients to our diets, according to Christopher Taylor, the senior study author and medical dietetics professor at the university’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

“You already know what’s going to be for dinner: a protein and one or two…

A new survey has found hosting a dinner at home is more stressful than catching a plane right before the gate closes, dropping your phone and even trying to pass the SATs.

A poll of 2,000 US adults who celebrate Easter found that 78% believe hosting a large dinner in their homes is stressful and 59% find the holiday itself to be stressful. 

Commissioned by The Honey Baked Ham Company and conducted by OnePoll, the study revealed the average person has had five large dinners hosted at home in the past 12 months.

Those large dinners were defined by respondents as being any meal that celebrates a big life event (22%), having a lot of family over (21%) and having…

Major companies, non-profits, and government agencies from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Veterans Affairs, to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have answered the Biden-Harris Administration’s Call to Action to spread the word and alert Americans that emergency rental assistance is available.  The combined commitments announced today – part of an ongoing all-out push to make sure tenants and landlords take advantage of federal rental assistance to help cover rent, utilities, and other housing costs and keep people in their homes – could reach tens of millions of Americans.

The continued call to action coincides with the launch of a new rental assistance finder produced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)….