Nutrition
3 Reasons You Need to Cut Back on Alcohol
A night out for drinks with friends once or twice a week, a weekend of binge drinking, or just one drink a night: what type of ...
Should Obesity Be Considered a Disease?
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word disease as "a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal ...
8 Odd Ways to Burn Calories this Summer
Summer time is all about enjoying yourself, so why sweat it out at the gym every day? Not only can the gym temperature be pretty unbearable, ...
Can Brown Fat Make You Thin?
Strange as it may sound, fat could hold the secret to weight management--brown fat, that is. That's why scientists funded by the NIH are exploring the ...
Why Are Trans Fats So Bad, Anyway?
Fat is fat, right? Well, not exactly--the truth is that not all fats are created equal. Far from it, certain fats lead to nasty diseases that ...
10 Steps to a Happier You
There are many ways that you can be happy. If you run a Google search, I am sure there are millions and millions of articles out ...
How Green Coffee Bean Extract Can Help You Lose Weight
A craze for green coffee bean extract has hit the weight loss supplement world all due to a compound contained in green coffee beans called chlorogenic ...
The Best 5 Vegetarian Protein Sources
Meat may seem synonymous with protein, but the truth is that fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes all have protein, too. In fact, most foods--even lettuce and ...
7 Foods that Are Infused with Caffeine
In the past, when you needed your morning caffeine fix to kick-start your hectic day, or the mid-afternoon slump has left you craving a java jolt ...
Can Eating at McDonald's Help You Lose Weight?
Recently, McDonald's CEO Don Thompson claimed that he lost 20 pounds just eating fast food--the McDiet if you will. How did CEO Thompson shed those 20 pounds, while ...
10 Good-for-You Foods that Cost Less than a Buck
A widely held belief exists that eating healthy is expensive. However, a study conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) found that, healthful eating ...
Nighttime Snacking: Why You Do It and How to Prevent It
Have you ever noticed that you have excellent willpower throughout the day to stick to your diet and exercise goals, but then things go haywire during ...
Losing Your Hair? It May Be Your Iron Intake
People have been trying to find a cure for hair loss for years. Adequate nutrition is essential for healthy hair and there is insufficient evidence that ...
Surviving on Starbucks for a Year - Can It Be Done?
A Seattleite named Beautiful Existence (her real legal name) decided to challenge herself to eating only Starbucks foods for all of 2013. She regularly updates her blog, ...
Vacation Fit: How to Stay Healthy on Vacation
This time of the year many of us find ourselves gearing up for that big summer vacation, whether a trip to some tropical locale or an ...
Kelly Osbourne Got Thin and You Can Too
Kelly Osbourne was never really the type of celebrity that people would look to for fitness advice. All that changed just a few years ago, and ...
Should You Smoke Alcohol to Lose Weight?
Smoking alcohol is trending among drinkers. Some think it is a health innovation while others think it should be outlawed. There are two ways to smoke ...
Take the "Fast" Out of Fast Food
While studying abroad in Florence, I became a pizza connoisseur. I actually mastered the phrase "May I have a slice of cheese pizza" in Italian to ...
How You Can Lower Cholesterol and Look Great Too
After a recent doctor's checkup, I received some frightening news...the seemingly bulletproof mentality of my twenties was shattered when I found out I have high ...
Does the "Fast Diet" Actually Work?
Wouldn't it be convenient if you could eat whatever you wanted, in whatever amount you desired, and still manage to lose weight? A popular new diet ...
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 »
