Health & Nutrition

Whether motivated by health, environmental, or ethical reasons, more and more people are choosing to adopt a partly plant-based or fully vegan diet. By one recent estimate, 5 percent of US consumers identify as vegan and 55 percent of Millennials self-identify as flexitarian...

Don’t knock nuts. While they have a bad rap for being high in calories, these nutritional powerhouses could be a dieter’s best friend – as long as you don’t overdo it. Nuts often get lumped into the “bad” food category, especially for those worried about weight gain. Given that nuts are high in fat an...

With all the new varieties of water on the market to choose from – mineral, alkaline, filtered and spring – it is clear that consumers have a growing interest in where their water comes from. We want to know: Is the source pure? Or simply bottl...

What if I told you that there's a red carpet trick that the stars use to get ready for red carpet appearances like the Oscars and that it's safe, healthy, effective, and free — and you can use it too. That's the claim of a new book by a diabetes specialist who has studied the best way to get his patients off the insulin, free of all their meds, and slimmed down — with a technique called 'intermitt

For people with eczema, the condition is more than a painful, red, or inflamed skin condition. It’s a recurring disease that is linked to an overactive immune system and can be It can be triggered by stress, allergic reactions, foods or other unknown factors. Sufferers not ...

The importance of gut health on overall wellbeing, immunity, disease prevention, and the ability to lose weight and keep it off is well known.  But could you answer the question, “What is leaky gut?” Or even, what are leaky gut symptoms? And do you know...

If you’re thinking about changing your eating patterns to lose weight, you may have considered two very popular options — counting calories or counting carbohydrates. While both options can lead to weight loss, there are major differences. Here’s wha...

When you pick up a bag of carrots, do you head for the cute little minis that come pre-washed and shaved, to make your healthy snacking that much more convenient? We do, too, or did – until now. When we learned that the so-called "baby "carrots are actually shaved down carrots sold as the cores – and that the skin, which has the most beta-carotene in it, has been removed – we began to re

When was the last time you thought about how many polyphenols you ate in a day? Probably never. That’s because polyphenols aren’t a food group. Nor are they essential nutrients. But they are powerful compounds that naturally occur in fruits, vegetables, and legumes. “They’re not require...

When it comes to weight, most people want to lose it, not gain it. Yet there are many individuals who struggle to put weight on and keep up a strong, healthy physique. “Diet culture is so rampant in our society that we often fail to recognize that many people may have wellness goals unrelated to weight loss,” says Jennifer Mimkha, R.D, a plant-based dietitian ...