Nutrition
How to Make a Healthier Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pie generally falls into two categories: people love it or they don't. I've never understood those on the fence about pumpkin pie. It's creamy, vibrantly ...
How I Plan to NOT Gain Weight Over the Holidays
Hello. I'd like to introduce myself. I am the average American woman. Like many ladies across the United States, I fluctuate between a size 12 and 14, I ...
10 Tips to Have a Healthier Thanksgiving
While the holiday season is certainly merry and sentimental, these festive months carry the added risk of holiday weight gain. If you're looking for ways to ...
Another Thanksgiving Weight-Loss Worry: A Losing Football Team
Listen up all you football fans: if your favorite team takes a loss, your weight may experience a gain. Recent research has revealed that fans of ...
How to Indulge Without Overindulging
Thanksgiving is very quickly approaching, bringing with it many wonderful opportunities for a little time with family and friends and even more time to completely derail ...
4 Guilt-Free Thanksgiving Desserts
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of pretty much the most festive season on the American calendar. With Christmas and New Years following close behind--and the abundance of ...
Five Tasty Snacks Under 150 Calories
Using "snacking" and "dieting" in the same sentence feels like shopping for a bathing suit in the middle of winter. But enjoying healthy snacks throughout the ...
2 Exotic Recipes to Help You Have a Healthy Thanksgiving
There is a collective sigh in the air. It's November and Thanksgiving dinner fantasies are as ripe as those Red Delicious apples at your local farmer's ...
Can This Simple Trick Help You Lose Weight?
Would you like to upsize that for an extra 50 cents? That's a question most of the population is all too familiar with. Yes, it's a sad ...
The 5 Most Fattening Thanksgiving Foods
It's no secret that Thanksgiving is among the least diet-friendly holidays on the calendar. Who can resist the savory aromas of casseroles and pies wafting from ...
6 Ways to Incorporate Pumpkin into Your Meals
Fall not only brings chilly weather and festive holidays, but the return of pumpkin season. These days, pumpkin is not only used for carving, but has ...
Is Your Diet as Temporary as Your Halloween Costume?
October is honestly one of my favorite months. The leaves are changing, it's starting to get cooler, and every day of the month is laden with ...
6 Halloween Candies That Aren't Too Bad for You
Halloween is just around the corner and you know what that means...CANDY. You can barely escape it. It's everywhere: at the grocery store, your office, ...
How to Make a Healthy Meal in 10 Minutes or Less
I've been a vegetarian since January of 2008. It started out as a New Year's resolution to give up meat for a month. But one month turned ...
How a Weight-Loss Mantra Can Help You Get Fit
Because weight loss is 50 percent attitude, staying positive, motivated and focused is an integral part of success. One tool that you should start utilizing is the ...
You Can Burn a Ton of Calories Doing This...
Do you have a green thumb? If so, you may also have a slim figure. Gardening can help gear you up for weight loss for a ...
6 Ways to Incorporate Autumn Produce into Meals
There is a plentiful array of options for fruits and vegetables available in the fall. Be sure to utilize these foods to their full potential by ...
How I Went from No Exercise to a Daily Routine
Let me start by clarifying: I'm not a personal trainer, dietitian or any kind of expert. I'm a girl who hasn't had a serious exercise routine ...
How to Eat Before, During and After Exercise
Whether you're an athlete or just starting an exercise routine, it is important to understand nutrition's role. What you eat and drink, and when, can make ...
Veggies For Breakfast? Yep! Here are 5 Ways to Incorporate Them
Think about what you ate for breakfast this morning. Was your plate filled with colorful veggies? Most likely your answer would be no. You're not alone. ...
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 »
