Nutrition
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5 Critical Nutrients and What Happens to Your Body When They’re Missing
Eating an optimal mix of vitamins and minerals is one of the most important things we can do for our health. Here’s how to enhance your diet with five key nutrients.
A Simple Plan
Want to learn the secret to a happier, healthier life? Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl says it’s as easy as peeling a carrot.
The Well-Stocked Pantry
What you have on your shelves has a big influence on what your family members put in their bellies.
Is Big Food Influencing Nutrition Advice?
Recently, the long-respected organization, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), has been accused of cozying up to big food industries like PepsiCO, General Mills and Hershey.
How to Incorporate Wellness into Schools
Schools with wellness-oriented curriculums teach students social-emotional learning as well as how to thrive — and are leading the way for other institutions to start doing the same.
How to Cope With Loved Ones Who Don’t Support Your New, Healthy Lifestyle
Making the decision to eat healthy can trigger tension with family members or friends. Healthy-eating expert and author Darya Pino Rose shares her strategies for finding peace at the dinner table.
Soy: To Eat or Not to Eat?
That is the question many health experts are asking about this hugely popular protein. While it does deliver some nutritional benefits, it’s best to enjoy in moderation.
Radical Acts of Eating
Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl shares her thoughts on why our personal and collective commitment to clean eating matters now more than ever.
5 Ways to Protect Yourself Against Superbugs
Bacteria are waging a battle against antibiotics, which are overused and too often ineffective. But we can still win the war.
Hearty Vegetarian Meals for the Entire Day
13 plant-based dishes and snacks that pack a nutritional punch — and make meatless protein taste great.
Fish Meets Grill: Enjoy Healthier Summer Meals With Grilled Fish
Instead of steak or chicken, turn up the heat on a piece of fish this summer and reap some tasty and healthy benefits.
Chocolate: The Darker the Better
The benefits of eating dark chocolate may move it from the category of guilty pleasure to healthy staple.
Eat More Sweet Beets With These Recipes, Cooking Tips, and More
Quick and easy ways to enjoy this colorful, nutrient-packed powerhouse.
The Healthy Pantry
Stock your cupboards with wholesome essentials and create these easy, satisfying meals — fast.
Guilt-Free Indulgences
The best way to have that cake and eat well, too? Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl shares her thoughts on making mindful choices that balance health, happiness — and your blood sugar.
Pining for Papaya Salad
Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl’s self-guided tour of Hmong cuisine inspires an abiding appreciation of culinary adventuring.
Bok Choy: 4 Recipes and Preparation Techniques
With crunchy stalks, tender leaves and gorgeous color, bok choy is versatile, inexpensive and highly nutritious.
Frankenfood: The Health Concerns and Risks of Genetically Modified Foods
Genetically modified food is everywhere in America’s supermarkets and restaurants. And since it’s not labeled, most of us have no idea how much of it we’re eating — or how much it’s affecting our health.
Tips and Techniques for Creating Delicious Stir-Fries
Stir-frying cooks up intense flavors in minutes. Here are a few tips that will make you a wok master.
Prisoners in Candy Land
It may seem there’s no escaping in the profusion of sugary treats we’re offered each day. Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl shares her thoughts on breaking free from the death grip they have on our health.
Stevia: Too Good to Be True?
This popular “natural” sweetener appears less problematic than its artificial counterparts, but it could still have health consequences of its own.




















