Nutrition

Find out if overlooked food allergies or intolerances might be interfering with your weight-loss and fitness goals.

Spices not only enliven the foods we eat, they can also enhance our overall health, as the six popular spices listed below demonstrate.

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.

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.

What you need to know about feeding your pets a healthy, balanced diet.

Here’s what you need to know regarding the food industry’s influence on what we hear about nutrition.

Fire up your salads and other dishes with the peppery flavors of watercress, dandelion greens, mustard greens, and arugula.

A University of Oslo study discovered that eating three meals a day, rather than six, produces greater muscle and strength gains.

The effects of soda consumption are dramatic — and speedy. Minutes after you take the first swig, the assault begins, and your body goes into a sugar-induced upward — and then downward — spiral. Here’s what happens.

Plentiful in springtime, dark greens are a fine way to coax your diet from its winter doldrums.

A whopper of a question. And the answer food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl offers makes a strong case for knowing your rancher and farmer.

Harvard nutritionists David Ludwig and Walter Willett argue that milk should be a dietary choice, not a nutritional requirement.

Chia, pumpkin, flax, sesame, and sunflower seeds are power foods that are packed with nutrients and can be easily added to your meals.