Nutrition

The #1 Health Tip Every Expert Agrees On — and 3 Easy Ways to Do It!

Paleo or vegan, conventional nutritionist or holistic healer, USDA lab rat or New York Times columnist —when it comes to how to be healthiest, there is a lot of disagreement but the one thing just about every expert will tell you to do?

By Experience Life Staff

Nutrition Tips

3 Side Effects of Drinking Diet Soda

A roundup of the potential health problems from diet soda consumption.

By Experience Life Staff

Nutrition Tips

Let Them Eat Steak

Spend some time eating, drinking and walking as the French do, and the “French paradox” may not seem like such a mystery after all.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Food Culture

How to Eat More Garlic: Recipes, Techniques, and More

For centuries it’s been worshiped for its protective powers and its culinary potential. To fully appreciate garlic’s appeal, make it a part of your everyday cooking.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

Soy: Blessing or Curse?

Dr. Mark Hyman debunks 4 claims surrounding soy.

By Mark Hyman, MD

Nutrition Tips

3 Methods of Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting - it is definitely one of the fastest (no pun intended) growing nutrition topics right now.

By Experience Life Staff

Metabolism/Weight Loss

How Good Bacteria — and Bad Bacteria — Affect Your Microbiome

Find out why some internal bacteria are our friends - and why providing a happy, well-balance home for them is essential to our vitality and well-being.

By Catherine Guthrie

Gut Health Immunity

Beware the Lusty Turnip

Every era has had its share of wrongly demonized foods - from commonplace vegetables to (gasp!) millet muffins.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Food Culture

Understanding the USDA Dietary Guidelines

Every five years the government issues an updated version of its guidelines for healthy eating. We asked some clued-in nutritionists to help us evaluate its latest confounding effort.

By the Experience Life Team

Nutrition Tips

For the Love of Heirloom Tomatoes: Recipes, Techniques, and More

Vine-ripened, oddly shaped, and packed with flavor: There’s nothing like an heirloom tomato. We asked farmer Gary Ibsen, who’s been growing and selling these beauties for almost 40 years, for a personal introduction.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food

How Not Having Enough Food Causes Obesity and Diabetes

How does not having enough to eat cause obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and early death? Let's investigate.

By Mark Hyman, MD

Nutrition Tips Specific Health Conditions

Transform Your Health With Live Foods

The biggest problem with the average American diet is not just how much we eat, it's the percentage of our diet that's made up of cooked and over-processed foods. Find out how eating live can help you live healthier, happier, and longer.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food Mindful Eating

Eating by the Rainbow

It is so easy to stick to what you know and choose convenience foods or the same foods every time you go to the store. Get out of that rut by accepting a new challenge; eating by the rainbow.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food Nutrition Tips

illio of woman in kitchen with an overabundance of kitchen gadgets

Got Enough Gadgets?

When future archaeologists undearth the relics of today's modern kitchen conveniences, what will their discoveries tell them Perhaps that we were too lazy to scramble an egg or shake our own salt.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Food Culture

a variety of fresh, healthy and vibrant foods

10 Ways Your Food Can Bring Out the Best in Your Genes

Dr. Frank Lipman on how healthy habits nurture healthy genes.

By Frank Lipman, MD

Hormones Nutrition Tips

Is ‘Big Food’s’ Big Money Influencing the Science of Nutrition?

Some scientists take money from companies, results don't match general consensus.

By Experience Life Staff

Food Culture

Refined Carbs Pose a Greater Risk than Saturated Fats for Heart Disease Risk

New research has weakened the perceived link between saturated fat and heart disease. Today, many experts, including Dr. Ronald M. Krauss, agree that refined carbs pose a much greater danger.

By Jack Challem

Food Culture Inflammation