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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?
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.
Simple Ways to Add More Fiber to Every Meal
Here are some easy — and tasty — ways to squeeze more fiber into your diet.
Is It Safe To Try an Elimination Diet If You’ve Had an Eating Disorder?
It can be risky, suggests one expert. One tip? Do an elimination diet that’s not as extreme.
How to Detox Heavy Metal Accumulation With Nutrition
Explore five crucial foods and their roles in effectively detoxing heavy metals from your body.
How to Eat More Veggies
Committed to healthier eating? Here’s how to pile your plate with even more vegetables.
Do You Have to Eat Protein Immediately After a Workout?
Why the advice to “optimize in 45” may still hold true.
The Trouble With Artificial Sweeteners
Low-calorie food replacements have promised to make our weight-loss dreams come true, but research indicates that these pseudo-foods rarely deliver. In fact, they may set our weight-loss efforts back.
Revolutionary Act 37: Ignore Labels
Helpful tips for making sense of dubious food-marketing claims.




















