Health & Nutrition

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 ...

Coconut oil has become the health-food makers' darling, to the point that companies are adding it to every 'health' food on the market, including snack bars, dairy-free yogurts, coffee creamers, and vegan cheese. They also use it interchangeably with MCT oil and while MCT is made from coconut oil, it's not exactly the same thing. With all of the purported he...

Sometimes a stressful day leads to soothing with salty chips, a pint of ice cream, or large order of greasy french fries. It can be momentarily comforting to eat these carb-laden, fatty foods that send serotonin levels up, dousing the brain's stress hormone, cortisol, and lending a momentary sense of calm. According to th...

It's a common misconception that any food labeled "vegan" is automatically healthy. If you're going plant-based for your health or to help manage your weight and lower your risk of developing diseases, unless you're shopping at the farmer's market or in your produce section, finding products that are actually healthy can be a minefield...

Updated November 10th, 2022 Since we published this story in early November, the latest listeria outbreak has sent more people to the hospital, causing at least one death and one lost pregnancy. People are getting sick from deli meat and cheese, in six states that span the entire country, including seven in New York, three in Maryland, two in Massachusetts and two in Illinois, and one each in Cali

If you're trying to eat more plant-based foods for your health, you may have heard about the importance of avoiding compounds such as lectins, phytates, tannins, and oxalates – which can inhibit the absorption of essential minerals. Someone eating a pl...

Urinary Tract Infections –– known as UTIs for short –– can be more than just annoying or painful, which is why you need to treat them quickly and seriously. Because UTIs, like any runaway bacterial infection, can also lead to sepsis, a dangerous condition where the bacteria enters the bloodstream and travels to other parts of the body, it's important to recognize the symptoms and seek medical atte

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...

Every year, more than 795,000 people in the U.S. 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 stroke risk of one in five, killing twice as many women as breast cancer.  Ye...

Breast cancer is the number one cancer among women in the U.S., afflicting an estimated 276,000 women a year, or one in every eight women over their lifetime, which is why so many of us are searching for ways to reduce the risk of a diagnosis. On a positive...