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Nutrition Tips

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How to Optimize Your Meals to Boost Metabolism

Learn which nutrition habits can help your body shift into a more effective fat-burning state, plus the steps you can take to gradually upgrade the nutrient-density of your meals.
By Life Time Editorial Team
Nutrition Tips
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What Is Flexible Dieting — and Is It Right for You?

Discover the pros and cons of this trendy concept.
By Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Mindful EatingNutrition Tips
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Should I Eat Saturated Fats?

A Life Time nutritionist digs into the research behind dietary saturated fat and finds that it’s not the culprit behind heart disease.
By Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Healthy AgingNutrition Tips
A plate of breakfast hash, including eggs, bacon, Brussels sprouts, onion, and more.

5 Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Diet

Eating healthy can be easy — yet overcomplex science often steers us away from getting started. Here are some simple modifications you can implement when it comes elevating your personal nutrition.
By Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Nutrition TipsSupplements
Cloves of garlic on table

Can Garlic Help Heal the Gut?

Turns out garlic is great for ulcers, food poisoning, and gut dysbiosis. Here's why — and how to get more garlic in your diet.
By Laine Bergeson, FMCHC
Gut HealthNutrition Tips
A bottle of vegan protein powder lying on its side with the protein powder spilling out.

5 Reasons to Use Vegan Protein Powder

Why it might be for you — even if you’re not vegan.
By Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Nutrition TipsSupplements
Cabbage juice

Can Cabbage Juice Help Heal the Gut?

Turns out cabbage juice is great for peptic ulcers. Here's why — and how to get more cabbage juice in your diet.
By Laine Bergeson, FMCHC
Gut HealthNutrition Tips
Three glass bottles filled with kombucha.

Can Drinking Kombucha Help Me Lose Weight?

Get the scoop on this trendy tea — including the ways it could benefit your health and what to watch out for in store-bought varieties.
By The LTH Nutrition Team
Nutrition Tips
Raw cuts of steak with a sprig of rosemary.

7 Reasons Meat Matters for Health

For those who choose to eat meat, it offers a variety of nutritious benefits that support health and fitness.
By Paul Kriegler, RD, CPT
Nutrition Tips
Plate of preworkout food

How to Fuel Up Before and After Your Workout

A look at the best things to eat pre- and postworkout.
By Nicole Radziszewski
Fitness TipsNutrition Tips
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6 Critical Nutrients You Might Be Lacking

Your health depends on supporting your body with the right levels of nutrients. Learn which ones you’re most likely to be lacking — and how you can best boost your supply.
By Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Nutrition TipsSupplements
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The Pros and Cons of Caffeine

Michael Pollan on the health benefits of “the world’s most widely used psychoactive drug.”
By Michael Dregni
Nutrition Tips
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How Antioxidants Can Slow Free-Radical Damage

Your cells take a beating from free radicals.  Antioxidants help you fight back.
By Daniel Larraya
Nutrition Tips
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Resistant Starch: Why You Need More of This “Good” Carb

Fearful of carbs? Learn why this may be one you want to embrace.
By Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Nutrition Tips
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13 Reasons Why Drinking Water Matters

From joint health to energy production to skin health, here's why you should drink water.
By Experience Life Staff
Arthritis & Joint HealthGeneral Health
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7 Dairy Foods That Are Easier to Digest

Because lactose intolerance or sensitivity is so common, we recommend dairy products that pose fewer digestive difficulties. These are the ones we reach for most often.
By Kaelyn Riley
AllergiesNutrition Tips
A woman on her computer in the kitchen.

Is an Elimination Diet Right for You?

Learn how this temporary eating approach could help you determine which foods are best for your body — and which ones are not.
By Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Mindful EatingNutrition Tips
Person buying jar of honey.

3 Tips to Help You Find Real Honey

If you're trying to find the best honey, make sure it's raw, local, and single-source. Here's why.
By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Nutrition TipsSustainability
Person with honey and a honey dipper.

The Health Benefits of Real Honey

The nutritional power of honey is well established. By buying local, you can support regional ecosystems and your neighborhood bees.
By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Cooking & FoodNutrition Tips
Person pouring cream into coffee.

6 Reasons to Choose Full-Fat Dairy

Despite decades of hype, low-fat or fat- free dairy products simply don't deliver the health benefits of full-fat varieties.
By Kaelyn Riley
Nutrition Tips
Trapper Steinle in a bike race.

What Trapper Steinle Eats to Fuel His Fitness

There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for fueling your fitness endeavors. Here’s how Trapper Steinle powers and recovers from his workout.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard, RKC, MFT-1, Michael Dregni, and Jill Metzler Patton
Fitness TipsNutrition Tips
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