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4 Ways Vegetables Improve Your Health
Doctors across the country are prescribing fruits and vegetables to their overweight patients. But the health benefits extend beyond weight loss.
Revolutionary Act 2: Buck Trends
Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s smart or good for you. Enlist fellow trend buckers — and create a trend of your own.
Understanding the Health Risks Associated With Artificial Food Coloring
European countries require warning labels on foods containing certain dyes. Why isn’t the Food and Drug Administration doing the same?
Summer Vegetable Pickles (Video)
Learn how to preserve all those homegrown goodies you’ll be harvesting come fall — and get a significant dose of gut flora while you’re at it!
3 Recipes From Almonds Every Which Way
A tasty cookbook devoted to almond milk, almond flour, and almond butter.
Expert Answers: What Are the Best Ingredients for Homemade Protein Bars?
We ask Melissa Joulwan, author of Well Fed: Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat, about what makes a great DIY protein bar.
Simple Meals for Non-Cooks: Pan-Seared Salmon and Bok Choy
A cast-iron pan is a handy tool for cooking up quick, easy, healthy meals of all kinds.
Could Food Sensitivities Be Impeding Your Weight Loss Efforts?
Find out if overlooked food allergies or intolerances might be interfering with your weight-loss and fitness goals.
Juices vs. Smoothies: The Great Debate
Discover what differentiates these healthful drinks.
6 Powerful Spices That Support Your Health
Spices not only enliven the foods we eat, they can also enhance our overall health, as the six popular spices listed below demonstrate.
10 Celebratory Cinco de Mayo Recipes
Celebrating Mexico’s unlikely victory in the 1862 Battle of Puebla has become an excuse to party north of the border. Planning a Cinco de Mayo get-together of your own? Don’t miss our roundup of healthy Latin-inspired recipes.
Spices for Health: Reader Favorites
Learn how to incorporate health-supporting spices into your healthy-eating regimen with these reader-submitted ideas — and share your own!
The Patio-Pot Solution
Want to help save the butterflies? Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on how something as simple as planting a patch of herbs can support these pollinators.
How to Decode Health Media
Here’s what you need to know regarding the food industry’s influence on what we hear about nutrition.
Spring Greens: Quick and Easy Tips, Recipes, and Nutrition Know-How
Fire up your salads and other dishes with the peppery flavors of watercress, dandelion greens, mustard greens, and arugula.
Should I Eat 3 or 6 Meals a Day?
A University of Oslo study discovered that eating three meals a day, rather than six, produces greater muscle and strength gains.
The Lunchtime Blues
Christy Rice shares her thoughts on why our school-age children need more time to eat their lunch.
Goitrogens: Thyroid Busters or Thyroid Boosters?
Holistic nutrition coach Jill Grunewald offers an update on the pros and cons of goitrogenic foods.
Low vitamin D levels linked to cancer and heart disease, studies show
The studies, which looked at data on more than one million people, confirmed previously reported evidence of the risks associated with vitamin D deficiency.
Revisiting the Nutrient-Timing Window
Researchers are taking a second look at nutrient timing: Here are some of the latest findings.