This Week’s News

Don’t Toss That Sour Milk! And Other Tips To Cut Kitchen Food Waste

September 28, 2015

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. As we show in the video above, this is what chef Dan Barber demonstrated earlier this year, when he temporarily [...]

Drinking Beer Could Cut Heart Attack Risk by 30%

September 28, 2015

Raise your glass if you want a healthy heart! Drinking beer may be good for your cardiovascular health, according to a frothy new Swedish study on the health benefits of beer [...]

QUIZ! Diet Detective: What’s Your “Dieting Trap?”

September 28, 2015

Diet traps are those behaviors and situations that get you into dieting difficulties over and over again. Most people have more than one. This quiz can help you identify [...]

Overweight Health Bloggers Perceived as Less Reliable

September 28, 2015

A blogger’s weight affects her or his credibility with readers seeking food advice, according to a Cornell study published online and in a forthcoming print issue of [...]

Play it SMART With Diet Apps

September 28, 2015

We live in an age of being able to determine within minutes the amount of nutrients we consumed in a meal, calculate our steps per day without having to manually count them [...]

Is Your Diet Making You Depressed?

September 28, 2015

The role of eating is so vast in the modern lifestyle that the decision of what to eat is more complex than simply satisfying hunger. Your food choices influence your risk of [...]

Mediterranean Diet Linked to Reduced Breast Cancer Risk

September 21, 2015

The Mediterranean diet — rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains and olive oil, and low in dairy products and red meat — is linked to a reduced risk for breast cancer, [...]

25 Ways to Cut 500 Calories a Day!

September 21, 2015

The most basic way to lose weight is to slash calories. That’s Diet 101. But how many do you really have to cut or burn to see results? It’s simple: You can drop a [...]

Diet Coke Could Make You Gain 7 Pounds This Year

September 21, 2015

Okay, okay, we already knew that the habitual afternoon diet drink wasn’t doing us any favors. Packed with ingredients like aspartame, sucralose, and saccharin, diet [...]