Nutrition
Put Down the Pizza: 5 Foods High in Trans Fat
Trans fat is a solid fat often manufactured from vegetable oils during a process called hydrogenation that raises unhealthy low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in your blood and ...
What Are Carbohydrates? An Easy To Understand Definition
Your diet is made up of three macronutrients: carbohydrates, protein and fat. Carbohydrates are present in varying amounts in most of the foods you eat including ...
Burn the Midnight Oil, Not the Stuff You Cook With
Oils are essential to our well-being and are utilized by our bodies in a variety of ways. Oils are defined as fats that are liquid at ...
Better Butter Alternatives
Butter, made from the fat content in milk, is comprised of about 80% milk fat and 20% water and proteins. Looking at the numbers across the board, a ...
Portion Your Plate to Control Your Weight
Portion sizes in America have continued to increase. Despite the growing demands for more nutrient-rich and healthy choices, most people still want "more for less" and, ...
The Best Recipe Books for Healthy Eating
There is such a variety of cookbooks available in stores that it can make it difficult to know which to choose. From a registered dietitian's perspective, ...
The Doctor vs. Doctor Google
Whether it's the solution to a statistics problem or a remedy to the common cold, when it comes to finding helpful information, it seems today that ...
Comfort Foods Aren't as Comforting as You Think
We've all been there. A carton of ice cream after a bad breakup. A dish of homemade macaroni and cheese after a long week. A ring ...
Healthy Halloween Candy Alternatives
Halloween is the time for haunting, pretending, and consuming sweets. Although Halloween doesn't scream health, it doesn't mean you have to forgo your diet or squash ...
Vending Machine No-No's
When I was little, the best part of staying in a hotel was the vending machine. Candy bars, chips, Twinkies and soda -- what more could ...
5 Healthy Post-Training Run Snacks
Running can be a fantastic way to get in shape, lose weight and build muscle, especially if you start training for a race. It can also ...
The Connection Between Weight Loss and Hot Flashes
If you've had one, there's no mistaking it: the sudden, intense, hot feeling in your upper body, perhaps accompanied by a rapid heartbeat, sweating, dizziness, nausea ...
10 Things You SHOULDN'T Do if You're Trying to Lose Weight
I often tell people the things they shouldn't do if they're trying to drop a few (or maybe several) pounds, rather than tell them what they ...
Simple vs. Complex Carbohydrates
As a dietitian, I'm often asked to explain the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates. While most people have heard that complex carbohydrates are better for ...
Diet Soda Could Be Increasing Your Risk for Diabetes
As the debate over the correlation between diet soda and weight gain rages on, a new study published in Nature claims that artificially sweetened beverages can ...
8 Healthy Foods That Help You Feel Full
Has your stomach ever started to growl in anticipation of your next meal, even though you just ate? At some point or another, we have all ...
Are Carb-Free Diets a Healthy Weight-Loss Option?
Whether or not a carb-free diet is healthy depends on how you define and practice a "carb-free diet." If you eliminated all carbs from your diet, ...
4 Healthy Recipes for Fall
Fall isn't just the time for pulling out those cozy sweaters. It also marks the return of luscious pumpkin, savory squash and other undeniably fall food ...
Will Adding Butter to Your Coffee Help You Lose Weight?
For those who can't go a morning without their cup of joe, many are now a-buzz about the benefits that come from Bulletproof coffee: an old ...
How Consuming Alcohol Affects You Post-Workout
It might be tempting to grab a frosty beer after an intense workout session, but a single cold one is seldom satisfying. The euphoric sensation of ...
Recent Nutrition
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Have You Heard of the Pegan Diet?
Buffalo chicken pizza seemed like a strange combo at first but now is incredibly popular. The cronut, which is a mash-up of a croissant and a ... Read More »
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How Much Healthier is Organic Peanut Butter?
The question isn’t quite as simple as organic vs. conventional. Many things need to be considered including the nutrition value, cost, how the peanuts were ... Read More »
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5 of the Healthiest Spicy Snacks
Spicy, hot foods have long been associated with many health benefits and are an important part of cooking in many cultures. Research has looked into the ... Read More »
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These 3 Food Industries Wreck Havoc on the Planet
Food Sustainability should be an important part of determining how you shop. There are so many food industries that can negatively impact the planet and your ... Read More »
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4 of the Most Sustainably Produced Foods
Sustainable foods are considered foods that support a healthy and sustainable food system for the planet. When considering the sustainability of foods, all parts of the ... Read More »
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4 of the Weirdest Hipster Health Food Trends
Hipsters are well-known for taking normal foods and combining them in the most ridiculous ways imaginable. These mashups combine bizarre flavors most people wouldn’t ever ... Read More »
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New Study Finds Cheese and Yogurt May Help You Live Longer
A team of researchers, which included experts on cholesterol and heart health, gathered and analyzed data from various studies that totaled 636,726 individuals who were followed for 15 ... Read More »
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Research Finds Kitchen Towels Are Full of Harmful Bacteria — Here's What You Can Do
Bacterial pathogens that commonly cause foodborne illnesses (FBIs) linger in the obvious places, of course. The kitchen sink, door-knobs, dirty countertops, and faucet handles are known ... Read More »
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Eating a Larger Portion One Day Influences Your Portion Size Choices the Next Day
Portion sizes have grown enormously over the past several decades, and the oversized portions we are routinely served at restaurants and fast-food establishments do not show ... Read More »
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How The Latest Kitchen Technology Helps Improve Your Diet
Smartphones are nothing new when it comes to the latest and greatest in the world of technology. It seems that many devices can be made “smart” ... Read More »
