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#WillMoveforFood
Follow along on Experience Life’s Instagram as Katy Bowman celebrates her 41st birthday by walking 41 miles through her community in search of local food and small-scale farmers.
The Difference Between Folic Acid and Folate — and Why It Matters
You may not know the difference between folic acid and folate, but your body does. Learn how to get the form you need for optimal health.
Revolutionary Act 29: Beware the USDA Food Guidelines
They’re a whole lot healthier for Big Ag and Big Business than for humans. Focus on vegetables and other whole foods, and don’t let the propaganda confuse you.
Smarter Eats: 5 Recipes From Tana Amen BSN, RN and Daniel G. Amen, MD
Total health is about more than your body — it’s about your brain, too. These nourishing recipes can help improve your focus, memory, and mood.
How to Make Macerated Onions
This flavorful ingredient adds a tangy pop to any dish and takes only 30 minutes to create.
How Sugar Makes You Sick
To understand how sugar can wreak havoc on your health, take a closer look at how it’s metabolized in the body.
Culture Club
Sandor Katz has been extolling the benefits of live-culture foods for a decade — and it’s changing the world.
61 Names for Sugar
Keep your eye out for these different terms for the sweet stuff.
Sweet News About Food Labels
Next year, the FDA will require food manufacturers to disclose added sugars on nutrition labels. Learn why it’s a big win for your health.
How to Be a Great Guest (Even With Major Food Limitations)
You can be a gracious holiday visitor and stay true to your healthy-eating needs with this expert advice.
The Food-Mood Connection
Yes, your eating habits play a big role in determining your disease risks. But did you know that they also have a huge effect on your state of mind?
Consider the Raisin
Maximize your dining pleasure this holiday season by eating slowly. Very slowly.
Big Soda’s Charitable Charade
Did the beverage industry donate millions of dollars to public-health groups in order to stop soda-regulating legislation? A new study suggests that those involved are likely putting profits over people’s health.
A Caloric Evolution
A biological anthropologist has upended everything I thought I knew about calories.
Revolutionary Act 26: Learn to Cook
Get a dozen healthy, whole-food recipes under your belt, and your lifewill be forever changed. Start by mastering one.
How to Reduce Your Food-Waste Footprint
The tons of food people worldwide discard or allow to go bad have serious economic, cultural, and environmental impacts. Consider these stats:
Book Review: Kitchen Matrix Cookbook
Mark Bittman’s new cookbook will give you the confidence you need in the kitchen.
6 Ways to Reclaim Your Taste Buds
These six strategies can help you reawaken your body’s built-in nutritional wisdom.
LIFE, UNEDITED: How to Quick-Preserve Tomatoes
This easy method is faster than canning and provides summer-ripe tomatoes all year round.
Tapas Party!
We might all be a little happier if we invited everyone over for olives, anchovies, and peppers more often.