- Honestly, Dara -
Guilty Pleasures
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlDara Moskowitz Grumdahl on why you don't have to deny yourself during the holidays. Just make sure that comfort food is really worth any subsequent discomfort.
Classification: Health: Nutrition
- 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.
The Top Healthy Reads of 2014: Readers’ Choice
By Heidi WachterThe holidays are a time for enjoying the blinking lights of a trimmed tree, sipping a delightful seasonal drink (egg nog, anyone?) — and reading best-of lists!
- 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.
- 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.
- Nutrition -
Low vitamin D levels linked to cancer and heart disease, studies show
By Maggie Fazeli FardThe studies, which looked at data on more than one million people, confirmed previously reported evidence of the risks associated with vitamin D deficiency.
- Food Culture -
Report: FDA loophole allows companies to determine safety of new chemicals in foods
By Maggie Fazeli FardThe Natural Resources Defense Council says a loophole in a 1958 law allows food manufacturers to bypass federal safety assessments.
- Brain/Mental Health -
Obesity and the Brain: How Exercise May Help Combat Cognitive Decline
By Maggie Fazeli FardNew research on mice provides clues to how excess body fat harms the human brain — and how exercise may help.
- Nutrition -
What makes a “Shamrock Shake” green?
By Maggie Fazeli FardWe take a look at the artificial food dyes that give St. Patrick's Day-themed treats their signature hue.
Childhood obesity reportedly decreasing, though why is not clear
By Maggie Fazeli FardThe obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-olds has dropped, according to a federal report — but among older kids, a high obesity rate is holding steady.
- Nutrition -
Nutrition labels get a long-awaited makeover
By Maggie Fazeli FardThe FDA's proposed changes — the first in 20 years — focus on calories, sugar, and portion sizes, not fat.