- Nutrition -
Small Shifts to the USDA Dietary Guidelines
By Michael DregniThe recent updates to the USDA nutrition guidelines recommend lowering sugar and alcohol intake and opting for breastfeeding over infant formula.
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- Functional Medicine -
Defying Convention
By Heidi WachterExperience Life founding editor Pilar Gerasimo discusses the healthy rewards of conscious nonconformity.
- Nutrition -
Are You Getting Enough Calcium?
By Chrystle FiedlerThis essential mineral is key to bone health and much more. Learn how to keep your calcium stores strong.
- Nutrition -
Is Dark Chocolate Actually Good for Us?
By Michael DregniDark chocolate is hailed as a health elixir. Is this more hype than reality?
- Nutrition -
Are You Protein Poor?
By Grace LabattResearch suggests that the USDA's protein recommendations intake may be too low for most active people.
- Honestly, Dara -
A Caloric Evolution
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlA biological anthropologist has upended everything I thought I knew about calories.
- Food Culture -
Healthy-Living Missionary: Q&A With Gunnar Lovelace
By Laura FogelbergThe cofounder of Thrive Market shares how his company is working to make healthy foods and products available to everyone.
- Nutrition -
The Conscientious Carnivore
By Matthew KadeyShopping for meat, fish, and eggs can leave you confused and conflicted. What’s the healthy, sustainable choice?
- Nutrition -
A Shopper’s Guide for Avoiding Pesticides
By Kaelyn RileyThe Environmental Working Group updated their Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists of conventionally grown produce for 2016 — with a new fruit topping the chart.
- Food Culture -
FDA to Begin Testing for Glyphosate in Food
By Craig CoxDebate heats up after WHO study claims the popular weed killer may be carcinogenic.
- Food Culture -
Revised USDA Food Guidelines Aim to Cut Down on Sugar Consumption
By Heidi WachterThe latest update of official government food advice offers new direction on sugar and cholesterol intake.
- Honestly, Dara -
The Dark Side of Food Science
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlTechnology can make your meals fun or forbidding. It’s important to know the difference — and to have a choice in the matter.
- Honestly, Dara -
No Bones About It
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlSome would like us to believe we’re wasting our money on organics, but the weight of their argument appears a bit . . . skeletal.
- Nutrition -
Salt: Dietary friend or foe?
By Maggie Fazeli FardBritish research reignites the debate over the link between dietary sodium and disease.
- Nutrition -
Decoding Health Media
By Michele SimonHere’s what you need to know regarding the food industry’s influence on what we hear about nutrition.
- Honestly, Dara -
My Unfavorite Things
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlLooking back on the year’s food trends, a food writer names a few that she hopes will quickly fade into history.
- Nutrition -
Shaking Out the Truth About Salt
By the Experience Life TeamWe’re all being told to reduce our sodium intake. But some experts argue that we aren’t getting the whole story — about why salt may not be the killer we’ve been told, and where the real dangers may lie.
- General Health -
Can We Trust Most Medical Studies on Health?
By Frank Lipman, MDBelieve it or not, the answer is an unequivocal NO! It is well known that studies funded by the industry or conducted by researchers with industry ties tend to favor corporate interests, but it seems to be even worse. In 2005, a researcher argued quite convincingly in a scientific journal, that most published scientific research... Read more »
- Personal Development -
The Ways of the Worried Well
By Pilar GerasimoThese days, frankly, if you’re not at least a little concerned about your health, you’re probably not paying attention.
- Nutrition -
Digesting the New USDA Dietary Guidelines
By the Experience Life TeamEvery five years the government issues an updated version of its guidelines for healthy eating. We asked some clued-in nutritionists to help us evaluate its latest confounding effort.
- Beauty -
Beauty Beware
By Courtney HelgoeHere’s how to keep yourself looking great with safer, simpler, more natural ingredients.