Nutrition

When starting a weight loss plan, most people start with big hopes such as losing thirty pounds in six weeks or fifty pounds in ninety days. This expectation is promised by fad...

If your morning is a frantic rush to get everyone out the door in time, eating breakfast may not make it to the top of your to-do list. Forcing yourself to slurp down cereal or...

Metabolism slows for several reasons including age, inactivity and in response to different medications or dietary habits. If a sluggish metabolism is keeping you from your ideal...

Healthy living doesn't have to cost more than you can afford. An easy and cost-effective 'how to' guide to eat better and spend less.

We’ve all heard how important it is to drink water. The amount that is most often recommended is eight 8-ounce glasses, for a total of 64 ounces each day. Staring at 8 glasses...

Understand what BPA is and which plastics you should avoid.

Easy and effective ways to include raw food in your everyday eating plan and experience its long term healing benefits.

When you eat food to make yourself feel good, rarely are you thinking about nutrition and health. You just want something sugary and sweet or fattening and fried... but this food...

If you follow these simple steps, you can enjoy the holiday celebration without the guilt. In fact, you may even enjoy the holidays more when you can party and still feel "in...

Millions of women in the U.S. are given bone drugs to prevent osteoporosis. With the simple steps given here, you can take care of your bones without taking dangerous drugs. By...

By using healthy fats in your cooking, you can lower your family's blood cholesterol, provide them with a great source of long-lasting energy, and make foods taste great....

An easy 'how to' on curbing those cravings, and what may cause them. Followed by a proper guideline on how to act.

Supplementing your diet with bacteria… sounds kind of crazy in our age of antibacterial and antimicrobial cleansers, right? But by some accounts, it won’t be long before we’re...

What's that heavenly smell wafting down the street? Maybe it's pizza, or perhaps donuts or barbecue. Wouldn't you give your right arm for some of that divinely smoked...

The Açai berry, pronounced ah-sigh-ee, comes from the Açai palm native to the Amazonian rainforests. The Açai tree is the same tree that yields the heart of palm sometimes used...

Maybe your doctor told you to limit yourself to one serving of red meat per week.  Maybe you're looking for a way to satisfy your desire for meat on Fridays without really eating...

Reading food labels is an important part of living gluten free. Unless you know what to look for, this can be extremely difficult. There are many ingredients that can fool you. ...

Protein is a necessary part of any diet, but many people do not understand just how much protein they need to consume each day. Protein consists of amino acids, which are the building...

Essential fatty acids (EFAs) have become known as the good fats, and they perform many essential functions in the human body.  Essential fatty acids cannot be made by the human...

Although everyone seems more frightened by cancer, it is heart disease that is the number one killer of men and women alike in this country.  One of the key risk factors for heart...

Your mother was right. You should eat your fruits and vegetables. OK, so maybe the it will make you big and strong part was not entirely accurate, but people who eat generous...

To understand anti-oxidants, you'll need to understand free radicals, and how well you understand free radicals may depend upon how well you did in high school chemistry! ...

If you've never heard of flavonoids or have never been certain what they are, you're in for a healthy treat.  No, flavonoids aren't the devoted followers of VH1's hit show about...

A vegan is a strict vegetarian who eats plant products only--no animal products or animal byproducts.  That means in addition to not eating red meat, poultry, and fish, vegans...

If you've decided that you'd like to be a vegetarian, then congratulations! Eating a vegetarian diet can be a healthy, nutritious, and delicious way to live. Depending on the type...

Sports nutrition is a phenomenon which is relatively new to many people. Most people are more familiar with popular diets which promote weight loss, weight maintenance or muscle...

Learning about healthy nutrition is something we all may be interested in but few people realize that learning about nutrition isn't very complicated. In a society plagued with...

When you start lifting weights or bodybuilding, your nutritional needs change. You're trying to bulk up by building muscle mass, so you need a lot of protein and potassium in your...

Before we talk about how to get more potassium into your diet, let's quickly touch on why you should. First of all, your heart simply won't beat without potassium -- that's kind...

So you want to begin eating more healthily but don't know where to start? Seems like the subject of diet and nutrition gets more and more confusing each day. News reports surface...

With dozens of selections, and over one billion dollars in sales yearly, the nutrition bar business is booming.  Consumers are inundated with messages and marketing schemes that...

If you snack on junk food and eat convenience foods on a regular basis, you probably already know that you need to change your eating habits. A diet of unhealthy foods can take...

High cholesterol is a health concern for many people. While heredity does play a role in high cholesterol numbers, diet and exercise can greatly help in reducing those numbers....

The food guide pyramid may not look the same as you remember it.  The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently revamped it to be more accurate and user friendly. ...

The Food and Drug Administration requires all companies who package food to include nutritional labels on the packaging. While the labels are meant to be easy for everyone to read,...