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How to Find the Healthiest Dark Chocolate
Here are nine tips to help you find the healthiest and best-tasting dark chocolate.
Is Dark Chocolate Actually Good for Us?
Dark chocolate is hailed as a health elixir. Is this more hype than reality?
When You Can’t Eat Seasonally
Not everyone can eat seasonally all year-round. Fermented, frozen, and canned foods are great options.
23 Perfect Plates
In his new book, How to Be Well, functional-medicine pioneer Frank Lipman, MD, explains how to compose the perfect plate for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
The Case for Seasonal Eating
Whole foods have a cyclical rhythm — and so do we. Discover the multiple ways that eating with the seasons can support our health.
Are Spore-Forming Probiotics Safe to Eat?
Spore-forming soil-based organisms in probiotic supplements and snack foods are becoming more common, but they may not be right for everyone.
How to Balance Your Blood Sugar
Blood sugar and insulin work together to support your energy and health. Learn how to keep them in balance.
This Is Your Body on Flour
A diet high in flours made from wheat or other grains affects every system in the body. Here’s a quick guide to flour’s far-reaching effects.
The Health Benefits of Tea
It’s not just the assortment of flavors and choices that is drawing many coffee lovers to experiment with “the other hot drink.” There are many health benefits as well.
8 Ways to Save Money on Organic Groceries
Organic foods can by pricey, but these tips can help lessen the blow.
Closer to Home: 5 Steps Toward Eating Local
Reaching out to local farmers and producers for your sustenance may be easier than you thought. Here’s a 5-step guide to finding, eating and savoring the local foods that nourish you, your community and the planet we all call home.
The Sour Truth About Sweet Fruit
In his new book, Genius Foods, Max Lugavere talks about which foods to embrace — and avoid — for optimal brain health.
How to Build a Gut-Friendly Plate
Simplify your meals with Robyn Youkilis’s “Good Gut Rule of Five.”
Power Parfait
This recipe, from Robyn Youkilis’s new book, is a gut-friendly way to start your day.
The 13 Pillars of the Pegan Diet
In his new book, functional-medicine doc Mark Hyman, MD, says a Pegan diet — which combines principles of Paleo and vegan diets — is the best way to eat. Here are the 13 pillars of the Pegan diet.
Is Salt Bad for You — Or Not?
Does restricting sodium intake cause more problems than it solves?
The Anatomy of a Mac-and-Cheese Dinner
What goes into a typical box of mac and cheese? Phthalates, food dyes, and more.
4 Easy and Effective Strategies to Eat More Veggies
Eating “mostly plants,” as Pollan suggests, doesn’t have to be hard. We asked our experts how to make it easier.
Can An Elimination or Low-FODMAP Diet Treat IBS?
Nutrition protocols that remove common irritants give the gut lining a chance to heal. Here’s how an elimination diet and a low-FODMAP diet are used to treat IBS.
How to Get Rid of Bloating
Find relief with simple lifestyle strategies.