Nutrients
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Whole Grains: A Close Look
Did you give up on grains entirely when you cut down on carbs? Or are you a white-bread and refined-flour junkie? Either way, it might be time to take a closer look at the value of whole-grain goods.
How to Break the Caffeine and Sugar Habit
Do you look to sugar and caffeine for a lift? Need ’em to get through the day? Here’s why these well-known stimulants may be more than your system can handle.
Can Amino Acids Help Improve Mood?
More people than ever are medicating for mood disorders, but author Julia Ross, MD, says there may be a more natural approach that’s just as effective.
Kids & Carbs
Reduced-carb diets are helping millions of people lose excess weight. But what’s right for some adults may be all wrong for their children.
How Plant Sterols Naturally Lower Cholesterol and Boost Health
Get the latest on these cholesterol-lowering compounds — and learn the best ways to get an extra helping.
Sizing Up Smoothies
How healthy are these health drinks, really? Find out what makes a smoothie worth drinking — and what might make some smoothies worth rethinking.
How Much Protein Do You Really Need?
Americans are consuming protein more than ever. But how much do you really need? Maybe not as much as you think.
Baked or Fried: Acrylamide
Acrylamide, a cancer-causing agent, has shown up in a variety of fried foods, but also in healthier baked and roasted items, including home-cooked meals. Should we be alarmed? Here’s a look at what we know about acrylamide, its risks and whether we need to take action.
Navigating Nutrition Controversies Surrounding Fat
Expert fats researcher Dr. Mary Enig offers surprising insider views on good fats, bad fats and the food police.
Good Carbs vs. Bad Carbs
Carbs have gotten a rotten rap lately, partly because they’re frequently lumped into one big-bad category. But not all carbs are bad! Find out which are worth befriending, and which are better to let go.
What Sugar Problem?
People keep harping about how horrible sugar is for your health. Can it really be as bad as they say?