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What fits easily into a lunch box, tastes great, quenches your thirst, satisfies a sweet tooth and is low in calories? You guessed it fruit. Mother Nature has cleverly combined carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, minerals and, best of all, sweetness, into one colorful package. Fruit consumption is on the rise and now, more than ever, is recognized as a fit food.

Research studies verify that a daily intake of fruits and vegetables is associated with a reduced risk for chronic diseases, such as heart disease, and may have a protective effect against certain types of cancers. As a result, the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, from 2015, recommend that we focus on fruit, particularly whole fruit. These guidelines encourage us to eat a variety of fruit whether fresh, frozen, canned or dried. And, the MyPlate graphic shows us that half of our plate should be fruits and/or vegetables.

Some may describe fruit as filled with super powers because they provide nutrients that are vital for optimal health and maintenance of our bodies. Vitamin C is needed daily for growth and repair of all body tissues, to heal cuts and wounds and to keep our immune system strong. This vitamin helps our bodies fight viruses, including colds and flu particularly important during Maines winters. Vitamin C keeps our teeth and gums healthy while also boosting iron and calcium absorption. Fruits that are high in vitamin C include citrus fruits (oranges, clementines, tangerines, grapefruit, lemons, limes), strawberries, pineapple and kiwi. Vitamin A, or beta-carotene, is another nutrient found in fruit and helps our vision. It acts as an anti-oxidant and may reduce the risk for cataracts. Fruits such as apricots, cantaloupe, red or pink grapefruit, papaya and mango are high in vitamin A. Potassium is an essential mineral, and it is found in bananas, prunes, dried apricots, cantaloupe and honeydew melon. It plays a critical role in maintaining the bodys fluid balance, in muscle relaxation and in controlling blood pressure.

Fruits are also high in a soluble fiber, called pectin. Pectin helps to lower blood cholesterol levels, assists in blood sugar control and makes you feel full longer. Fruits highest in this type fiber include apples, blackberries, raspberries and pears.

On the sweeter side, fruits are naturally high in two simple sugars; glucose and fructose. These natural sugars can help satisfy that end of a meal craving for a sweet dessert, without a calorie overload. Fruits are low in fat, low in sodium and relatively low in calories, so they can help maintain a healthy weight.

When shopping for fruits, think about the colors of the rainbow. Choose lots of different colors (red, orange, green and purple) to assure that you are getting a variety of nutrients that your body needs. Buying an assortment of fresh, frozen, canned and dried fruits will assure that fruit is always available for you and your family. Use the nutrition facts on food labels to check the calories, nutrient content and sugar as you shop. Buy fresh fruits in-season when they are at peak flavor and low in cost.

The amount of fruit you need depends upon your age, sex and level of physical activity. Two cups of fruit per day are recommended for an average healthy adult consuming a 2,000 calorie diet. A serving of fruit is equal to 1 cup or 1/2 cup of dried fruit or an average size piece of fruit equivalent to a baseball. For more information, go to choosemyplate.gov.

Here are some tips to make your diet a more fruitful one:

At breakfast, top your cereal with sliced bananas, blueberries, peaches or strawberries. Heat blueberries or strawberries and serve them over pancakes. Add fruit, such as applesauce, to muffins and cut the amount of sugar in half. Make a fruit parfait by layering low-fat plain yogurt with your favorite fruits. Create a smoothie by blending low-fat yogurt with frozen fruit.

At lunch, pack an orange, banana or grapes to energize you through the afternoon. Add fruit to cottage cheese for a refreshing salad.

At dinner, use fruit to tenderize meats and flavor entrees like chicken with apricots. Add fruit to salads like mandarin oranges on spinach salad and crushed pineapple with coleslaw. Try colorful fruit kabobs to add eye appeal to your barbecue. For dessert, try baked apples, poached pears or a fresh fruit salad.

Keep a bowl of whole fruit on the table, counter or in the refrigerator for healthy eating on the run. Dried fruit makes great, grab n go snacks, or spread apple slices with peanut butter.

March is National Nutrition Month, and this years theme is Put Your Best Fork Forward. Lets all put our forks into fruits. Fruits should be enjoyed as part of our daily diets they are sweet and swell for you.

Anne-Marie Davee, M.S., RDN, LD, a registered and licensed dietitian-nutritionist, is a nutrition faculty member at the University of New England. She also assists with coordination of the Maine SNAP-Ed Program.

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If you're thinking of ending a diet, take a page fromHugh Jackman's menu.

After 17 years, the actor starred asWolverine for the ninth and last time (allegedly) in theX-Men spinoff filmLogan, which is set for release on March 3. He appeared on NBC'sTonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Friday to talk about the movie. While backstage in his dressing room, he decided to have a little snack.

Make that a humongous snack. Make that theWolverine of snacks. He posted on his Instagram page a photo of himself holding a fettuccine dish large enough to feed a whole group of X-Men, courtesy of celebrity chefMario Batali.

"Happy Break The Wolverine Diet! @mariobatali you are legend! @jimmyfallon @wponx @20thcenturyfox," Jackman wrote.

"The new @thehughjackman #wolverine diet includes pasta. lots of pasta," Batali said.

The photo also showed a smaller plate with a mostly eaten portion of pasta sitting alongside a glass of red wine. Now that's a way to break a diet!

Jackman said onThe Tonight Show that his Wolverine diet consisted of boiled chicken, broccoli and cauliflower.

"It's not like I never had a cheat meal, 'cause I did," the actor said. "But for 17 years, I've kind of known, 'Well, next year, you gotta get into shape...' It kind of puts a bit of a damper on things."

Jackman also said he sought advice from his friendJerry Seinfeld about whether to stop playing Wolverine.

He said he asked the comedy actor and comic why he decided to endSeinfeld when he did.

"He was very clear," Jackman said. "He said, 'Look, when you're creating something, it's very important not to run yourself dry. It's not about finishing on top, necessarily, but making sure that you creatively still have something left, which propels you into whatever's next.'And as he was talking to me, I went home and I said [to my wife], 'Deb, this is it. This is the last one.'"

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Enlarge / These mice are about to have issues.

In mice with either type I or type 2 diabetes, an intense, four-day fasting diet seemed to regenerate pancreas cells and restore insulin production. Researchers reported this finding on Thursday in Cell.

In Petri dish experiments, human pancreas cells from patients with type 1 diabetes also showed altered gene expression and kick-started insulin production after being exposed to blood from people on a fasting diet.

The results of the early work are promising for potential dietary treatments of both types of diabetes. Type I is caused by a loss of insulin production, while type 2 is caused by diminished production or insensitivity to insulin, a hormone that triggers the breakdown of sugar in the blood.

But the research needs to be verified. Far more work in humans needs to be done before researchers can make any sort of conclusions or treatment recommendations. Experts warn that trying out the diet could trigger dangerous complications in diabetic patients.

It boils down to do not try this at home, Dr. Valter Longo, lead author of the study and a researcher at University of Southern California, told the BBC. This is so much more sophisticated than people realize.

The mice were given a low-calorie, low-protein, low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet for four days. On the first day, the mice could only eat 50 percent of their normal calorie intake. For the remaining three days, the mice ate just 10 percent. Next, they got up to 10 days of normal eating, which allowed them to regain lost weight, before another four-day fast. The mice went through this cycle three times.

Mice that model type I diabetes saw a boost in their pancreatic beta cells, which generate insulin. In mice modeling type 2 diabetes, researchers saw restored insulin production and reduced insulin resistance.

"This is good science and does give promise for the future treatment of diabetes, immunologist Anne Cooke of the University of Cambridge told the NHS. But we need further studies to see whether this works in people as well as it has in mice."

Cell, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.01.040 (About DOIs).

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Referring to heart disease, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, asks, Why is there reticence to provide the public with guidelines that will spare them this disease or its progression? in an article published in The American Journal of Cardiology. The National Research Council position was that a dietary fat recommendation lower than 30 percent would be too frustrating for those attempting to achieve a significant reduction. Although it is uncertain to what extent people will adopt the advice, it is nevertheless scientifically and ethically imperative to inform the public what constitutes an optimal diet. We must tell the public the truth about what is best for their health, and let them decide their degree of compliance, he asserts.

My video belowexplains how Dr. Esselstyn challenged an expert panel to answer these questions from patients: Ill do anything, but I never want to have heart disease and Ive had a heart attack, and I never want another. Answers ranged from having them eat beans, beans, and more beans to time for the public to embrace a plant-based diet.

The recommended plant-based diet is not the same as vegetarianism. Vegetarians often consume all sorts of less-than-healthful foods, such as oils, margarine, dairy products, and eggs. Vegans do, too, for that matter. This new paradigm is exclusively plant-based nutrition, Dr. Esselstyn explains. In other words, it consists only of whole plant foods. Why exclusively? Because, as reported in the Cornell China Study, there does not appear to be a threshold beyond which further benefits do not accrue with increasing proportions of plant-based foods in the diet. It appears the more plant-based foods and the fewer animal-based foods, the better.

In a separate paper published in The American Journal of Cardiology, Dr. Esselstyn acknowledges that he is acutely aware of the castigation that accompanies recommending a plant-based dietnamely that the recommendation will be met with skepticism and hostility on the part of the general publicthough less so these days as millions jump on the plant-based wagon. But that hostility is peculiar, Dr. Esselstyn continues, because many cultures sustain themselves with such a diet, enjoying its taste, texture, and variety, as well as its health-promoting qualities. However, dietary preference is deeply personal, and one can easily be offended. Nevertheless, the public has a right to know the truth as understood by experts in nutritive biology about what constitutes the safest and healthiest diet. I couldnt have said it better. The public has a right to know the truth.

Some criticize this exclusively plant-based diet as extreme or draconian. Websters dictionary defines draconian as inhumanly cruel. A closer look reveals that extreme or inhumanly cruel describes not plant-based nutrition, but the consequences of our present Western diet, Dr. Esselstyn writes, adding that having a breastbone sawed in half for bypass surgery or a stroke that renders one an invalid unable to speak can be construed as extreme, and having a breast, prostate, colon, or rectum removed to treat cancer may seem inhumanly cruel. Thats extreme.

In health,

Michael Greger, M.D.

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Home General Health Bladder Nephrotic syndrome (a kidney disease): Causes, symptoms, treatment, and diet

Nephrotic syndrome is a kidney disorder that results from the release of too muchprotein in the urine. When damage is caused to the blood vessels within the kidneys, which filter waste and water, it can lead to nephritic syndrome. Nephrotic syndrome leads to swelling of the feet and ankles, along with other health conditions as well.

To treat nephritic syndrome, its important to treat the underlying health issue causing it. Because nephrotic syndrome can lead to other complications, its important to begin treatment right away.

Damage to the blood vessels, which filter water and waste, is the primary cause of nephrotic syndrome. When these vessels are healthy they keep the appropriate amount of protein in the body and expel the extra. When they are damaged too much protein leaves the body through the urine.

There are many causes of blood vessel damage, including:

Symptoms of nephrotic syndrome include:

The factors that increase your risk of developing nephrotic syndrome include kidney damage due to medical conditions like diabetes or lupus, use of medications like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and infections like HIV, hepatitis B and C, and malaria.

The complications that may arise due to nephrotic syndrome include blood clots, high cholesterol, poor nutrition, high blood pressure, acute kidney failure, chronic kidney disease, and an increased risk of infections.

There are three main ways to test and diagnose nephrotic syndrome: urine test, blood test, and kidney biopsy. A urine test will reveal abnormalities found in the urine including protein. A blood test will reveal low levels of protein and high levels of cholesterol, and a kidney biopsy will take a small tissue sample from the kidney and test it.

Treatment for nephrotic syndrome involves treating the underlying condition; therefore, treatment may include:

Its important to change your diet if you have nephrotic syndrome because unhealthy foods can further damage the kidneys. For starters, choose leaner sources of protein or even plant-based protein; it isnt as taxing on the kidney. You will also want to reduce the amount of fat and cholesterol in your diet to control cholesterol levels and reduce your risk of heart disease, which can worsen nephrotic syndrome. Lastly, reduce your salt intake to minimize swelling.

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'I Lost 30 Pounds After Trying The Whole30 DietHere's How I Did It' Women's Health I would try a new workout, do it for two weeks straight, and not work out again for another three months. I was the same way with my diet. I'd eat salad and smoothies for a week before a trip to Vegas, but then I'd go right back to the junk the week ...

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You've heard of low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets like the Atkins diet and Paleo diet. These and other so-called ketogenic diets are gaining in popularity due to their effectiveness, but do you know what, exactly, they do in your body to trigger weight loss?

In a standard carb-loaded American diet, the body burns glucose from carbohydrates as an energy source in a process called glycosis. But when you limit your carbs and increase your fat intake, your body moves into a metabolic state of ketosis, meaning that its burning fat stored in your body instead of glucose, according to Web MD. Ketosis also drastically reduces blood sugar and insulin resistance.

As Dr. Eric Westman, director of the Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at Duke University, told Time Magazine, "You determine what your body burns for fuel based on what you feed it.

Ketogenic diets have been used to treat pediatric epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and cancer. (Photo: Elena Shashkina/Shutterstock)

A ketogenic diet has been used for almost 100 years to treat pediatric epilepsy, Scientific American reports, because a ketogenic diet mimics fasting, which has long been known to have a therapeutic effect on seizures. Similar to a state of ketosis, the body also burns fat for energy during fasts. Usually, a pediatric ketogenic diet starts with 24 hours of fasting in a hospital setting, where doctors can monitor frequency of seizures, medication, and help educate the parents on the ins and outs of the diet.

Ketogenic diets may very well be able to delay symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases and even reverse them completely. Dr. Terry Wahls, whose lecture Minding your Mitochondria went viral a few years ago, summarily reversed the progression of her secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, following a Paleo ketogenic diet.

Dominic DAgostino, a Ph.D. and associate professor at University of San Francisco, recently told Mens Fitness that a ketogenic diet also could be the key to beating cancer. We think the majority of cancers could be metabolically managed through nutritional ketosis, either as a stand-alone pill or an adjunct to standard care, he said.

No matter what your reason is for considering a ketogenic diet, you should know that getting started may be a little rough on your body.

A true ketogenic diet can be hard to maintain, so do it under the care of a doctor or nutritionist to make sure you're getting adequate nutrition. (Photo: Elena Shashkina/Shutterstock)

Following a ketogenic diet is no small feat, because in order to start it, you have to go off carbohydrates almost entirely. Your body feels deprived. Its what many call a low-carb flu. But after you get through this initial roadblock, many report feeling sharper than before and more energized.

So what exactly can you eat on a ketogenic diet? Some options are below:

A true ketogenic diet can be hard to maintain, since carbohydrates from sugar in something as inconsequential as toothpaste or cookie crumbs can send your body back into glycosis.

If you want try a ketogenic diet, do it under the care of a doctor or nutritionist to make sure youre getting adequate nutrition. And though it may be difficult in the beginning, dont give up. The Mens Fitness article says that leading Boston College cancer researcher Thomas Seyfried, M.D., believes that a ketogenic diet is therapeutically even more valuable in fighting cancer than chemo.

A bold yet heartening statement.

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Its important to me that you know this isnt a diet book, writes author Jessica Murnane in her introduction to her cookbook, One Part Plant (Harper Wave, $27.99).

Murnanes book, instead, is what all cookbooks should be, a collection of enjoyable recipes meant to get you in the kitchen. Except thats not 100 percent true, because Murnane does have a bit of an agenda: She wants you to eat better, one plant at a time.

Her book, as its title suggests, advocates for a plant-based diet, but don't let that description deter you from cracking the spine. The book is not about what you cant eat, says Murnane, who will be in Chicago in March to promote the book. Im trying to get people to try something different, not deprive them of anything.

This approach is gaining her a lot of praise, not least of which from Lena Dunham, creator of the hit series Girls." In her foreword to One Part Plant, Dunham goes so far as to say the book will change your life.

Thats a high mark for a first-time cookbook author, but Murnane takes it in stride. Im not trying to shame anyone, she says. Im not here telling people to quit cheese forever just maybe eat more vegetables.

Murnane is the first to tell you that up until a few years ago, she wasnt really that into food or healthy eating, whatever that meant. As she writes on her website, her major food groups were Sour Patch Kids, Diet Coke, and Whatever Lean Cuisine Had the Most Cheese.

But then she was diagnosed with endometriosis, a painful reproductive system disorder that has few treatment options and no cures (Dunham also has it). In fact, it took a number of doctors to successfully determine the cause of her debilitating pain. After a number of surgeries and a cocktail of painkillers, therapy, yoga and even alternative medicines, she was faced with the possibility of a hysterectomy.

I thought that the surgery was my only option, she says, but then a friend shared with me a website explaining that a plant-based diet could help with the pain from endo. Murnane is quick to note that you should consult your doctors regarding treatment, but for her, the idea of surgery was daunting. All other options exhausted, she decided to try changing her diet before settling for the surgery.

At first, it was tough going. I was so mad and angry, like something was being taken away from me my first meal was a tortilla with salsa on it, and steamed vegetables. I thought, I think the hysterectomy would be easier. But Murnane stuck with the diet, skipping takeout and cutting out inflammation-causing foods, plus cooking for herself. And then she started to feel better, but not without some struggle.

When I started cooking, finding recipes was tough something easy that didnt take three hours to make and 10 minutes to eat, she recalls. Not finding any plant-based solutions in existing diet books everything was so restrictive, and no one likes to be told you cant eat this, dont eat that she set out to create her own recipes, while also obtaining a certification in plant-based nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Foundation.

Food should be nurturing, she says. You see people drinking kale smoothies, and you beat yourself up because maybe youll never be like them. That doesnt make dieting easier or fun. Thats the crux of her book: Changing a diet doesnt have to be all or nothing. It can come one meal, or one plant at a time.She personally doesnt identify as vegan (she still eats honey), but Murnane does avoid gluten, which can trigger pain and inflammation for sufferers of endometriosis. Going gluten-free isnt the answer for everyone, either, she notes.

The book itself is vibrant dishes pop off the page. The variety of foods, too, is impressive. Its not just salads here. Murnanes tacos (made with creamy butternut squash and lentils) look worthy of any taqueria, while her mushroom-spinach lasagna is so hearty and filling, youd never believe it didnt have cheese the creamy component is actually a surprisingly smooth and savory cashew sauce. A tomato-white bean panzanella (with bread!) is bright with smashed garlic but comes together in just a few minutes. Same goes for her roasted potato, corn and leek chowder, a hearty, comforting soup with only eight common ingredients. A dessert section features everything from a neon-red granita by fellow cookbook author and friend Julia Turshen, to chocolate chip cookies and a triple berry skillet cobbler.

Perhaps most impressively, none of the recipes look outright healthy in the way that many so-called diet books do. Theres no hit-you-over-the-head selling of a lifestyle, even as Murnane is the embodiment of a plant-based life by necessity. But ultimately, shes not here to convert you just encourage you to try going one part plant, one meal at a time.

(The book) is about more than just Meatless Monday, says Murnane. People hate Mondays already, and then youre going to tell them what they cant eat? Yeah, no.

Murnane, a former Chicagoan, is making a few stops in her old stomping grounds as part of herbook tour. She's partnered with local restaurants for plant-based promotions, including Do-Rite Donuts (223 E. Erie St.) for a 100 percent plant-based doughnut, available March 6-10,and Lula Cafe for a farm dinner March 6. Murnane will sign books at Foodease in the Water Tower Place, time to be determined, March 7. On March 8, she is hosting a party and book signing at Gather Home, 6-8 p.m. (2321 W. North Ave.). Email hola@onepartplant.com to RSVP. Visitonepartplant.com for more details.

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Creamy mushroom lasagna

Makes: 8 servings

From "One Part Plant" by Jessica Murnane, who writes that she has enjoyed many pans of lasagna that sub vegetables for noodles, but for her, lasagna must have noodles.

Olive, grape seed, or coconut oil, or veggie broth for sauteing

3 garlic cloves, minced

1 pound mushrooms, chopped (you can use a mix of different mushrooms)

1 tablespoon tamari or coconut aminos

1 teaspoon dried thyme

3/4 cup raw cashews, soaked for a few hours (overnight is best), drained

1 cup veggie broth

2 big handfuls spinach

10 ounces gluten-free lasagna noodles (I love Tinkyadas brown rice pasta)

4 cups marinara sauce, store-bought (a 32-ounce jar) or homemade

Nutritional yeast (optional)

1 Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

2 In a large skillet, heat a glug of oil or veggie broth over medium. When the pan is hot, add the garlic and saute until it becomes fragrant. This will take about a minute. Add the mushrooms, tamari, and thyme. Cook, stirring every minute or so, for 6 to 8 minutes or until the mushrooms release their water and a little broth starts to form.

3 Combine the cashews and veggie broth in a high-speed blender and blend until the mixture is completely smooth. This might take up to 5 minutes, depending on the speed and power of your blender. Pour the cashew sauce into the pan with the mushrooms. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for a couple minutes to let the sauce thicken, stirring frequently. Throw in the spinach and stir for another minute.

4 Prepare the lasagna noodles according to the package instructions. Make sure to do this after your mushroom sauce is ready to go, so the noodles dont sit for too long and start sticking together.

5 Spread a third of the marinara sauce on the bottom of an 8-by-11-inch baking dish. Add a layer of noodles. Cover the noodles with half of the mushroom cream. Add a layer of noodles. Use another third of the marinara to cover these noodles. Add the remaining mushroom cream. Add the last layer of noodles and cover it with the remaining marinara sauce.

6 Cover the lasagna with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil, add a sprinkle of nutritional yeast over the top, if you like, and bake for another 15 minutes. Let the lasagna rest for 5 minutes before serving.

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Timothy Olyphant fans whove swooned over his cowboy swagger in Deadwood then Justified might be stunned to discover how deliciously goofy and full-on funny he can be in the cannibalism-centered Netflix comedy Santa Clarita Diet. The show stars Olyphant as a suburban family man struggling to adjust when his wife (the incomparable and iconic Drew Barrymore) abruptly turns undead man-eater. Created by the twisted comedic genius behind the underrated Better Off TedVictor Fresco,Santa Clarita Diet blends horror and comedy to tell a touching and hilarious story of a happily married couple working together to overcome extraordinaryand very gorycircumstances.

During a special Netflix panel discussion held in New York City, Barrymore said it was Frescos focus on family that attracted her to Santa Clarita Diet, This is a family trying to, figure out how to make their lives work. And for me this was about a marriage, and I loved Victors themes about behavioral consequences. But she also dished on the more disgusting elements of the show, in particular all the gore effects. I had to like eat and vomit and kill and, you know, we had to disembowel and there were just, everyday was a new fun activity! Barrymore said commending, the visual effects team, They made it look so real.

With a grin Olyphant declared of his co-star, You put as much blood as you want on Drew Barrymore and she is still adorable.

The love fest continued when Nerdist sat down with Barrymore, Olyphant and Fresco to geek out over the show that is our latest obsession. While they shared praise and stories from behind the scenes, we inquired if rumors of HBOs continued interest meant a Deadwood movie might finally be a possibility. Olyphant said hes game as long as his schedule for a potential Santa Clarita Diet season two could be accommodated. Once he noted hed need time to grow that mighty mustache back, Barrymore began to speculate if perhaps onscreen husband might need a facial hair makeover for the dark comedys second season. I could get down with that, Barrymore declared with a cool nod.

What do you want to see if Santa Clarita Diet gets a season two? What about a Deadwood movie? And what facial hair do we like best on Olyphant? Weigh in with comments.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. >> Yasmani Grandal knew his new diet had really taken hold when his 7-year-old daughter was visiting her grandmother.

As soon as you mention vegetables to a little kid, they say, No, Grandal said. So we just started making food and we never really mentioned that it was all vegetables. We didnt make a big deal.

Two, three weeks ago she was at her grandmas house and her grandma bought her some candy. She goes back and reads the label and it said 57 grams of sugar or something like that. She goes up to her grandma, Hey, grandma this has too much sugar. I can only have one or two. It was pretty funny.

Grandal didnt exactly take the idea of a plant-based, meatless diet seriously right away himself. His wife, Heather, works as a nurse. She wanted to watch a documentary that a cardiologist she works with had mentioned.

She put it on and I wasnt too interested in it, Grandal said. Then as I started to hear things here and there and some athletes were giving their testimony about how their performance had improved and it kind of caught my attention a little. So I went back and watched the whole documentary by myself and kind of got into it.

The Dodgers catcher decided to give it a try for 15 days and 15 days turned into a month, turned into two months and here we are now.

But the real focus of Grandals off-season was putting the meat back in his right-handed swing.

The switch-hitting catcher did not want to platoon against left-handed pitching as he had the past two seasons with veteran backups A.J. Ellis and Carlos Ruiz and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts didnt want to have to sit his front-line catcher based on the opposing pitcher.

In a perfect world, I think its more contingent on the schedule and not left-vs-right, Roberts said this spring. I think in the past couple years its been that because his right-handed swing hasnt been where we would have liked, where he would have liked.

The Dodgers made the obvious known to Grandal that a better right-handed swing would mean more playing time in 2017 and persuaded him to work with former big-league hitting coach Jeff Pentland this winter.

Coming up through the minor leagues, my splits were the same. I actually hit for more power from the right side, Grandal said. But it was the fact that I was playing every day. Whether it was a righty or lefty didnt matter, I was in. It was the daily repetitions I was getting so my swing was there.

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It was more than that, though. Grandal injured his right knee in July 2013 and then his left shoulder in August 2015. Both had a greater effect on his right-handed swing. He wasnt able to sit back (on his right leg) and turn on it from the right side as much as he used in 126 right-handed at-bats the first two seasons after the injury he had just one home run.

And the shoulder injury appeared to affect Grandals swing plane. While his exit velocity from the left side (92.8 mph) and right side (91.1) last season were nearly equal, the launch angles were drastically different 14 degrees as a left-handed hitter, 7.7 as a right-hander. The result was a 53.6 percent ground ball rate as a right-handed hitter.

It looks good. Its not as steep. Its not as in-and-out of the zone, Roberts said of the adjustments Grandal has made in his right-handed swing this spring. The balls he did square up (last year), the trajectory just wasnt right. It was more negative, down into the ground.

So weve talked about elevating the ball to the pull side. That with the contact rate, it should be a productive right-handed player. He worked real hard. Hes healthy No. 1. But he also feels good about the right-handed swing.

Indeed, Grandal doesnt lack confidence from either side of the plate.

Ive always been very confident from both sides. I know I can do it, he said. Its just a matter of gaining confidence from the coaching staff for them to say, OK, we dont have to think about whos catching today. We know Yaz is going to be there.

Clayton Kershaw will start the Dodgers first Cactus League game on Saturday against the Chicago White Sox followed by Rich Hill on Sunday and Kenta Maeda on Monday. The starting pitchers will likely only throw one inning the first time around. The rest of the starting lineup will get two plate appearances each in the opener Saturday. ... Last years assistant hitting coach on the major-league staff, Tim Hyers, will serve as a roving instructor in the minor leagues this year. Triple-A hitting coach Shawn Wooten will occasionally work with the big league team this year.

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