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What’s good for the body is good for the brain, and food has a powerful effect on your mind, so much so that it can help lift your mood. Here are the many plant-based foods that can help reduce stress and boost your mood.  Depression, of course, isn’t to be taken lightly and should be treated by seeking professional help. Even just mild depre ...

If you are trying to follow a low-carb diet while tracking your macros – the carbs, proteins, and fats that you consume every day – there can be some confusion when it comes to beans, which check more than one box. So we talked to Natalie Rizzo, a New York-based registered dietitian, to answer the question, "Are beans carbs or protein?" Are Beans Carbs or Pr...

If drinking alcohol is a part of your weekly routine, moderation is your safest bet. According to Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this is defined as having up to one drink per day for women and up to two drinks for men. Excessive alcohol consumption is linked to numerous illnesses, such as heart disease and liver disease in addition to mental health disorders, according to Collman. However, you

Soy is not bad for you. Let's just start with that misconception. In fact, soy –– or specifically the phytoestrogen in soy products like tofu and soybeans –– functions as a brake that inhibits cell growth, by acting on your beta-estrogen receptors, which means it can help suppress cancer. In contrast, actual estr...

You might view dark chocolate as a health food, but is it? Before you bite into it, understand why dark chocolate may not deserve the health halo it’s been wearing. Chocolate may not be the nutritional equivalent of kale, but it’s still lauded as a healthy food far and wide because of the antioxidants it contains. And there’s dat ...

When was the last time you thought about getting enough folate in your diet? Probably never, unless, that is, you’re pregnant or trying to get pregnant, in which case doctors bring it up as an important vitamin to take since it is critical to the healthy formation of the fetal brain stem and chord, which develop early, even before many women know they are pregnant But most women have learned about

When a runner gets heel pain, it can develop into full-blown plantar fasciitis, an inflammation of the ligament that runs along the bottom of your foot, connecting your Achilles tendon and your toes, and because it's so hard to treat, you'll do anything to make the pain subside and get back to your usual workouts. If yo...

Cultured meat is coming, and all signs point to it becoming one of the biggest revolutions in the modern food industry – for two reasons: It could seriously disrupt animal agriculture, and it promises to alleviate most of the harmful impact of meat production on our environment.  It ...

You're eating plant-based for your health, and possibly to shed a few pounds, but the scale isn't budging. As with any diet you have to take in fewer calories than you burn, and carbs can be the culprit. Here's how to eat vegan, lose weight and still get all the delicious food you crave.

One of the groups that hesitate to go plant-based or vegan, due to their usual training routines, are hard-core athletes or those training for a major event like a marathon. Yet with a little strategic diet and exercise plan, it turns out that what they think will be the biggest challenges when they start a plant-based diet — like where to get your protein — is actually not an obstacle at all. The