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.
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Food Fright: What Are You Really Eating?
The food industry has turned out some scary stuff in recent decades, but that doesn’t mean you have to stand quaking in your kitchen. Here’s how to take the fear out of your food choices — and put common sense back in.
The Care and Feeding of Your Mitochondria
They’re essential to energy, focus, vitality, and metabolism. And yet most of us have no idea how our mitochondria work. Here’s how to tune up your body’s quadrillions of “energy factories” and avoid mitochondrial dysfunction.
5 Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Diet
Eating healthy can be easy — yet overcomplex science often steers us away from getting started. Here are some simple modifications you can implement when it comes elevating your personal nutrition.
How to Eat More Plant-Based Protein
Discover the power of plant protein. You’ll get all the protein you need plus reap a rich nutritional harvest.
How Individualized Nutrition Optimizes Health
The ideal diet, the spot-on supplement strategy — can a few simple tests help you carve out the one and only nutritional program that’s perfect for you?
Connecting ADHD and Nutrition
For kids with focus and behavior challenges, nutritional shifts may work as well as, or better than, medication.
The Trouble With Food Studies
Nutrition research is rife with limitations and problems. Here’s some expert guidance for cutting through the confusion around food studies.
Whole-Person Cancer Care
Why lifestyle-based therapies — including nutrition, exercise, acupuncture, and other alternative practices — are becoming essential components of traditional cancer treatment.
What to Eat for Healthy Joints
Are your joints giving you trouble? Eating strategically can ease pain and minimize future damage.
The Health Benefits of Eating Potatoes
Long maligned by various healthy-eating plans, potatoes are back in favor — and more nutritious than you might think.
How Healthy People Shop
We quizzed five top nutrition and health experts about what they put in their grocery carts each week. What we found might just inspire you to take a fresh look at your own food-buying habits.
A Call for a Real Food Revolution
A U.S. congressman explains how lack of access to real food is at the heart of our nation’s health problems — and what we can do about it.
Why Healthy Humans Need Healthy Soil
You may not be able to see them, but microorganisms in the soil have a big impact on human nutrition and health.
Cholesterol Reconsidered
Research disputes cholesterol’s reputation as the primary culprit behind heart disease. Here’s the real scoop on its role in the body, the right ways to bring it down naturally, and why cholesterol-lowering drugs may not be the cure-all we’ve been led to believe.
How to Get Enough Protein From a Plant-Based Diet
Plant-based foods can easily meet your protein needs. The key is diversity.
Rethinking the School Lunchbox: Healthy Meal Makeovers
Three of our favorite nutritionists revamp kids’ lunches to create meals the whole family can enjoy.
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.
What Are Supergreens and How to Incorporate More into Your Diet
Once a niche market for health fanatics, supergreens have gained a wider audience. Here’s what they are, how to get them and what they can do for you.
The Ultimate Guide to Healthy Blood Sugar
Many of us are at risk of blood-sugar imbalance — whether you’re aware of it or not. Here’s everything to know about blood sugar, including the habits you can implement to control it.
Should I Eat Saturated Fats?
A Life Time nutritionist digs into the research behind dietary saturated fat and finds that it’s not the culprit behind heart disease.