Health & Nutrition

Chickpeas don’t get a lot of love beyond their starring role in hummus. The truth is that chickpeas are possibly the perfect food: Healthy, delicious, and environmentally friendly. And Bonus: Chickpeas bring people together (more on this later, with recipes)...

Eating plant-based doesn’t give you a pass on reading food labels, especially if your diet includes processed plant-based options. At The Beet, we recommend a whole-food, plant-based diet for health, but if you are eating something with a label, check to see that the first ingre…

Most of us were brought up to believe that dairy is a key part of a healthy diet: It was touted as an essential source of calcium, protein, and vitamin D, and a staple of the food pyramid. We learned the importance of dairy in magazine ads, billboards, and TV commercials tha…

With its ancient history, medicinal qualities, and nutritional value, the simple, venerable fig deserves more recognition. There are hundreds of different varieties, all from the mulberry family, but the most commonly known include Black Mission, Brown Turkey, and Kadota figs...

So you want to eat a more plant-based diet, but you can't imagine sitting down to a meal that doesn't include meat. Now you don't have to. Instead of taking meat out of the equation completely, replace it with faux meat, which luckily, tastes nearly indistingu…

How many times have you been asked, “So where do you get your protein?” after you tell someone that you're vegan, vegetarian, or plant-based?
It’s a myth that meatless eaters don’t get enough protein in their diets since you can get&nbs…

Juicing has been proven to be a quick, effective way to deliver nutrients to your body without requiring you to eat an entire bushel of kale or basket of apples, you get all the nutrients of these antioxidant-packed fruits and vegetables in one quick and easy drink...

Until recently, eggs have been recommended by nutritionists as a healthy breakfast option because they're low in calories, high in protein, and full of nutrients, which made them sound like the perfect choice for someone who wants to build lean muscle or lose weight...

You might add some spirulina to your morning smoothie to give it a beautiful emerald color and a boost of nutrients, but do you know all the reasons why algae such as spirulina or chlorella are so good for you? Here are the health reasons why you should be adding the ma…

Award-winning South Korean actress Im Soo-Jung is known for her role in the horror movie, A Tale of Two Sisters and her latest romance television series Search: WWW. The actress first launched her career as a model in the 1990s, long before K-Beauty, or Korean Beauty became one of the…