- Nutrition -
7 Dark Chocolate Recipes
By Karen OlsonLearn how this nutritional superfood ramps up the flavor of savory dishes.
Classification: food
- Nutrition -
A Field Guide to Nutritious Food: A Q&A With Jo Robinson
By Jill Metzler PattonEating on the Wild Side author Jo Robinson unearths the nutritional secrets of wild fruits and vegetables — and explains how to get more from today’s produce.
- Nutrition -
FDA Proposes Listing Added Sugar to the Nutrition Facts Label
By Heidi WachterThe revised changes would be a sweet victory for health advocates and place beverage manufacturers in a sticky situation.
- Nutrition -
A Change Is Brewing at Starbucks
By Heidi WachterAfter last fall's public outcry, the company announces its popular Pumpkin Spice Latte will now include real pumpkin.
- Personal Development -
5 Ways to Maintain and Spread Healthy Habits
By Katie DohmanBy now we've heard that obesity is contagious. Well, the flip side of that is that healthy habits are contagious, too. Here's how to build and share those habits with everyone around you.
- Nutrition -
The Case for More Magnesium
By Claudine ArndtMagnesium plays a significant role in our detoxification processes, preventing possible damage to your body and brain from environmental toxins and heavy metals.
- Nutrition -
Nestlé Saying Goodbye to Artificial Dyes
By Heidi WachterThe company is poised to be the first major U.S. candy manufacturer to eliminate artificial food dyes and colors from products.
- Food Culture -
How Real Food Can Help Fight Poverty
By Representative Tim RyanU.S. Congressman Tim Ryan explains why food, health, poverty and social justice must be transformed together.
- Nutrition -
Federal Soda Tax Legislation introduced into Congress
By Heidi WachterIf passed, the new bill would require a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks.
Notables: July/August 2014
By Heidi WachterNews, notes, and our top takeaways from the latest issue of Experience Life.
- Gut Health -
Study Finds Exercise May Boost Gut Health
By Maggie Fazeli FardA new study shows that exercise, along with a diverse diet that includes protein, can help the body's multifaceted microbiome thrive.
- Nutrition -
9 Benefits of Eating Fermented Foods
By Maggie Fazeli FardFermented foods boost the good bacteria in our guts, which makes us healthier, happier, and more resilient.
- Nutrition -
10 Things You Need to Know About Food Dyes
By Maggie Fazeli FardAt best, the dyes are aesthetic enhancers. At worst — and as many "real food" advocates claim — they are a public-health menace linked to behavioral problems and other consequences.
- Sports/Recreation -
Who’s the Fittest of Them All?
By Maggie Fazeli FardThe American College of Sports Medicine released its annual list of fittest U.S. cities this week.
- Nutrition -
Beyond Weight Loss: 4 Ways Vegetables Improve Your Health
By Maggie Fazeli FardDoctors across the country are prescribing fruits and vegetables to their overweight and obese patients. But the health benefits extend beyond weight loss.
- Weight Loss -
The psychological downside of labeling obesity a “disease”
By Maggie Fazeli FardThe American Medical Association's "disease" label appears to boost feelings of self-acceptance among obese people — but it may also undermine weight-loss efforts, a recent study suggests.
- Fitness Tips -
Jumping Rope May Suppress Appetite
By Maggie Fazeli FardResearchers suspect vertical motion may disrupt the gut in ways that reduce the urge to eat.
- Food Culture -
Coca-Cola to drop controversial chemical from all drinks
By Maggie Fazeli FardBrominated vegetable oil, commonly used in sports drinks and sodas, has been banned in several countries because it’s both a flame retardant and a potential hormone disrupter.
- Nutrition -
Salt: Dietary friend or foe?
By Maggie Fazeli FardBritish research reignites the debate over the link between dietary sodium and disease.
- Fitness Tips -
TwoGrand: Reimagining the food journal, one photo at a time
By Maggie Fazeli FardPictures trump calorie-counting on TwoGrand, a recent addition to the bastion of food and exercise tracking apps.
- Nutrition -
Pepsi to introduce sodas “made with real sugar”
By Maggie Fazeli FardThe new line of sodas, expected in Regular, Vanilla and Wild Cherry flavors, will be sweetened with "real" sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, but will come with the same set of health risks.