Health & Nutrition

Arguably one of the most popular seasonings you’ll find in kitchens worldwide is salt. It’s added to both savory and sweet dishes when cooking and eating, but the majority of our dietary sodium intake comes from packaged and prepared foods...

The next time you go to the grocery store, you may want to check your produce section for kumquats, which appear to be the miniature offspring of oranges but are actually completely unrelated and arguably more nutrient-dense than everyone's favorite citrus...

Your brain has 87 billion neurons and uses up 25 percent of your total energy and 50 percent of your body's oxygen, yet we rarely think about eating to "support" this vital organ. Though we often feel exhausted from doing nothing more than trying to focus for hours o…

To avoid cancer, be heart-healthy. That's the finding of a new study out of Harvard. The benefits of eating a mostly plant-based diet for heart health are well known, as Dr. Joel Kahn, the author and cardiologist recently told The Beet. Now, new research shows the “double benefits&Cl…

A new study shows that how you metabolize calories determines whether you get hungry within just a few hours of eating, according to a new study just released in the journal Nature Metabolism. Âre you a big dipper or a little dipper? Meaning does your blood sugar fall like a rock, or stay stea…

If you’re like most Americans, you’ve grown up thinking you need to consume dairy to stay healthy. You subscribe to the idea that milk does a body good because that’s what dietary guidelines tell you. Plus, you need milk and other dairy products to bui…

In light of the stress caused by the pandemic, most of us can agree that we frequently feel uninspired, low on energy, and sometimes experience brain fog. Keeping energy levels high depends on the quality of food you're eating. Whole, plant-based foods are converted to long-lasting energy that you c…

Raise your hand if you’ve ever taken a supplement without talking to your doctor first. Don’t worry, we’re not judging … but we’re not encouraging that either. We know how it goes, you read something about this or that, make a se…

More than 100 million Americans are living with insulin resistance, characterized by prediabetes or diabetes, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Insulin resistance increases the risk of a number of serious health problems, including heart attacks, strok…

Every year, more than 795,000 people in the US have a stroke and about 610,000 of these are first-time events, according to the CDC. The majority of these are women, who have a lifetime risk of 1 in 5 of ever having a stroke. Strokes kill twice as many women as breast cancer...