Nutrition
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Ageless Vitality
With age comes wisdom. And if you make wise choices, it can also come with robust health and fitness, great energy, and a generous dose of satisfaction. Discover the variables that play the biggest role in determining your vitality for a lifetime — and why it pays to start focusing on them now .
Avocados: Nutrition, Kitchen Tricks, and More
Nutritional power and dining pleasure – all in one versatile, ready-to-eat package.
Sugar Breakdown: The Impact of Sugar on Your Body
The effects of sugar on the body go beyond cavities. High blood-sugar levels have many negative health impacts, including many inflammation-based diseases. Here’s how to cut back and balance your blood-sugar levels.
Fuel Your Fitness: A Guide to Eating for Each Phase of Your Workout
Wondering what to eat before and after your workouts? Learn the essentials of fueling for optimal energy, recovery and health.
Latin Inspiration: 8 Flavorful Recipes
This summer, host your perfect fun-in-the-sun fiesta. All you need are finesse and a few fabulous details, Latin-style.
How to Make Healthy Food Fun for Kids
Want your little ones to grow up knowing how to cook? Serve up a healthy dose of food literacy, starting now.
How to Love Veggies
Hate veggies? It’s time for you (and your kids) to start feelin’ the love.
Fresh, Frozen or Canned
While fresh produce is generally best, with a little nutritional know-how, you can eat healthy from your market’s freezer case and canned-foods aisle, too.
Love Your Lunch
When cafeterias, vending machines and fast food fail to satisfy, a sack lunch can save the day – if you pack it right.
How to Avoid Food Traps at Work and Stay Committed to Healthy Eating Goals
Office parties. Vending machines. Desktop candy jars. Power lunches. They can spell nutritional disaster for the average working person. Learn how you can sidestep fattening fare and feel better — starting now.
The Way of the Healthy Person
Good health, at core, is less a destination than life-enhancing journey. But if there is any clear path toward the promised land of healthy living, it begins not on any treadmill or diet plan, but on the fertile ground of our own thoughts, assumptions and beliefs.
How Food-Labeling Regulations Help Consumers Avoid Trans Fats
Until recently, consumers had no way of knowing precisely how much trans fat lurked in their favorite foods. But now, a new food-labeling regulation gives us all a better shot at eliminating this danger from our diets.
The Responsible Roast
Turned off by the ugliness of agribusiness meat production? A few wise, family-owned farms and ranches are still out there doing the right thing – and the results are downright tasty.
The Perfect Roasted Pecan Recipe for Your Holiday Party
The perfect dish for your holiday event? Nutritious, tasty, satisfying nuts.
5 Common Myths About Cholesterol
Cholesterol may be the most vilified — and misunderstood — nutrient in our food. Here’s how to unravel the myths.
What are Basic Foods?
During the convenience-driven, newfangled-food frenzy of the past half-century, many nourishing essentials like bone broths, legumes, root vegetables, and sprouted grains all but disappeared from American plates. Now they’re coming back — and starting a contemporary legacy of their own.
True Simplicity
Tyler Florence want to make your yummy, easy home cooking more delicious than a kitchenful of $50,000 cabinets.
What Is Carbohydrate Loading?
Oodles of noodles aren’t the only secret to successful pre-race fueling. Here’s a closer look at how to maximize your energy supply.
Are Functional Foods Good for You?
Food makers are adding vitamins, minerals and other beneficial ingredients to conventional foods, but the value of such enhanced products is still a matter of debate.
Cooking Up a Blue Streak: Blueberries
You want fast, easy way to get more fresh, nutrient-pack foods into your kids’ diets. Blueberries may be the path of least resistance.
The Problem With Growth Hormones in Milk
Dairy-industry growth hormones boost milk production, but raise questions – like, what if they wind up in the milk we drink? Here’s what you should know about the research into possible risks, including early-onset puberty and antibiotic resistance.