Nutrition
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Expert Picks for Plant-Based Proteins
A Life Time dietitian shares her top choices for plant-based protein food sources — and considerations to keep in mind if you’re using them to hit your daily protein targets.
How pH Balance Affects Your Body’s Ability to Detox
Discover how to naturally detoxify your body every day by maintaining a balanced pH level.
How to Improve Kids’ Nutrition
Two-thirds of American kids’ calories come from processed food. Here’s how we can do better.
8 Food Safety Myths
How cautious do we need to be in the kitchen? Our experts share tips for safe food handling, prep, and storage.
How Fermented Foods Help Your Body Naturally Detox
Discover how fermented foods like kefir and yogurt can help your body’s natural detoxification process.
5 Reasons to Opt for a CSA This Summer
Buying a share of a local farm’s harvest offers more than fresh, seasonal produce. It supports your community.
How to Get Your Kids in the Kitchen
It’s never too early — or too late — to introduce your kids to the life skills learned in the kitchen.
How Sweat Inducing Foods Help Your Body Naturally Detox
Discover how inducing your body to sweat can help your body’s natural detoxification process.
How Healthy Fats and Oils Help Your Body Naturally Detox
Discover which foods to include in your diet that naturally help fight inflammation, allowing the body to detox and improve your overall health.
What Is a Food Intolerance?
Unlike food allergies and food sensitivities, food intolerances do not involve the immune system. Here’s why.
5 Kid-Friendly Cooking Tools
Welcome kiddos into the kitchen with these tools, including scaled-down baking sheets and serrated safety knives.
What Is a Food Sensitivity?
Food sensitivities often cause delayed — not immediate — reactions such as joint pain, fatigue, and brain fog.
How to Buy, Store, and Use Eggplant
Get inspired to use more of this nightshade in your home kitchen.
Are Plant-Based Meats Truly More Sustainable?
The answer, it seems, is complex.
How Butyrate Can Help Protect Against Leaky Gut
Butyrate can help keep inflammation in check by strengthening our gut lining.
Confessions of an Imperfect Eater
Experience Life editor in chief Jamie Martin on how to nurture our sometimes embattled relationship with food.
The Health Benefits of Butyrate
Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid that plays a surprisingly big role in overall health.
Sioux Chef Sean Sherman on the Importance of Indigenous Food
Native chef Sean Sherman is striving to decolonize America’s idea of food.
Get Your Glow On: A Q&A With Chef Ryan Dodge
We talk to Life Time executive chef Ryan Dodge about his food philosophy, food that is alive, and LifeCafe’s Coffee Crunch Energy Bites.
7 Superfoods to Try Now
Superfoods get a lot of attention for their nutritional potency — some justified, some overstated. These seven power foods are actually worth the hype.
4 Endangered Foods
The climate crisis is threatening the foods we love. Here’s what we can do about it.