High-Protein Diets: Health Benefits and Controversies
This macronutrient can positively impact your health in numerous ways. Learn about the benefits, healthy sources, and get answers to common questions about protein.
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Whole-Body Psychiatry: Nutrition for Mental Health
Mental health is not all in our heads. Nutrition is an oft-ignored — yet incredibly effective — way to manage mental illness, including schizophrenia.
Nutrigenomics: Genetic Testing and Personalized Nutrition
An emerging field of nutritional research dubbed “nutrigenomics” focuses on identifying and understanding molecular-level interaction between nutrients and other dietary bioadditives with the human genome during transcription, translation and expression (the processes by which proteins encoded by the genome are produced and, for better or for worse, do their thing).
Digesting 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.
Weight Loss 101
Feel like you’re failing at weight loss? Forever stuck in the remedial class? Don’t despair! Here’s the study guide you need to make the weight-loss honor roll once and for all.
The “Nutrition for Healthy Aging” Newsletter
8 ways to use nutrition for healthy aging.
The Nutrition and Immunity Newsletter
10 ways to boost your immunity with nutrition.
How to Use Nutrition to Improve Your Libido
Interest in sex may wane for many reasons, including aging. Here’s a list of key nutrients and herbs to support a strong, healthy sex drive.
6 Factors that Affect Weight Loss
Conventional weight-loss strategies often fail because they don’t account for a host of intersecting factors that are unique in each of us. Here are the variables that matter most — and why.
Is Milk or Dairy Good or Bad For You?
Is dairy healthy or unhealthy? Learn the truth behind common myths and why the answer may depend on your individual body.
How to Eat For Your Genes
You know that your genes are central to your health. But did you know that they have their own nutritional needs? Discover how the emerging field of nutrigenomics may help us nourish our DNA — and lower our risk of certain diseases.
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.
Ask the Dietitians: Your Nutrition Questions, Answered (Part Two)
With Anika Christ, RD, and Samantha McKinney, RD
Which supplement ingredients should I avoid? What is considered “clean eating”? Are there healthy habits to never waiver on? Life Time dietitians answer these common nutrition questions — and more.
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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.
The Smart Way to Weight Loss
Tired of trying and failing to lose weight? Don’t despair! Here’s the study guide you need to make the weight-loss honor roll once and for all.
Comfort Food for Your Brain
What you feed your body, you also feed your brain — sometimes to its detriment. Learn how to nourish your gray matter for more balanced moods, clearer thinking and a more fulfilling life.
Download Your Free “Nutrition for Healthy Aging” E-Book
Discover 8 ways to use nutrition for healthy aging.
Learning to Read Labels
Help your kids decode food packaging and labels and you’ll equip them with a healthy-living skill they can use forever. And you might notice less whining — starting now.
Revolutionary Act 30: Approach ADA Dietary Guidelines With a Healthy Dose of Doubt
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics — the country’s largest nutritional professional society — is sponsored by Big Food.