Nutrients
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5 Energy Slumps and How to Avoid Them
Well-timed, nutrient-dense meals and snacks can help you power through your days with steady energy.
How to Eat With the Seasons
You know that in-season fruits and vegetables are especially good for you, but just how much nutrition hangs in the balance? Perhaps more than you realized.
How to Be a Conscientious Carnivore
Shopping for meat, fish, and eggs can leave you confused and conflicted. What’s the healthy, sustainable choice?
Why Magnesium Is Crucial for Your Health
This mineral is one of the most critical nutrients in your diet. Are you getting enough?
Everyday Detox: Whole Foods to Support Your Body’s Natural Detoxification Processes
No need to subsist on juices and herbs. These whole foods support your body’s innate ability to detoxify on a daily basis.
Resistant Starch for a Healthy Gut
Long underappreciated, resistant starch is a friendly carb component that delivers healthy microbial balance and weight-loss support.
How to Make Over Your Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Three go-to health foods get a taste makeover with these flavor-building, nutrition-boosting strategies.
The Nom Nom Paleo Shopping List
It’s easy to cook up Michelle Tam’s super-satisfying paleo recipes with this handy shopping list.
Take Back Your Taste Buds
Highly flavored processed foods have hijacked our sense of taste, driving unhealthy cravings and sabotaging our health for too long. It’s time to reclaim our palates.
What Are the Health Benefits of Drinking Tea?
Praises abound for this unassuming, down-to-earth beverage: Experts tell us it helps prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease, maybe even wrinkles. And it’s not all hype, either – tea really is a nutritional powerhouse.
6 Food Habits That Age You
These unhealthy eating patterns don’t just trigger weight gain and undermine your energy. They age you from the inside out.
What Are SNPs and Why Do They Matter?
Small genetic variations can have a big influence on your health — and affect your nutritional needs, too.
Should I Take Digestive Enzymes?
Suffering from heartburn, reflux, and other digestion challenges? Digestive enzymes can be an important step in finding lasting relief.
What to Eat for Healthy Joints
Are your joints giving you trouble? Eating strategically can ease pain and minimize future damage.
The Whole-Food Advantage
Nutrient-enriched this, vitamin-fortified that. Get past the labeling hype, and you’ll start seeing the unbeatable advantages of real, whole foods.
From Harvest to Home: A Guide to Handling Produce
The nutritional value of your fruits and veggies depends on how they’ve been handled – from the field to the fridge.
The Health Benefits of Supergreens
Packed with phytonutrients, supergreens detox, nourish, and heal. Here’s how you can get more of them into your life.
The Connection Between Leaky Gut and Autoimmune Diseases
Scientists find that leaky gut syndrome can lead to the onset of an autoimmune disease.
20 Common Conditions Associated With Leaky Gut
The effects of a leaky gut extend far beyond the gastro-intestinal tract. As our understanding of the syndrome increases, the list of conditions related to leaky gut keeps growing. Here’s a partial list:
The Case for More Magnesium
Magnesium plays a significant role in our detoxification processes, preventing possible damage to your body and brain from environmental toxins and heavy metals.
Full-Spectrum Eating
Trying to weather the storm of nutrition advice? Seek out a rainbow of colorful produce, and you’ll find a big pot of phytonutrient gold.