When doctors and health-care providers “prescribed” fruits and vegetables, patients ate more produce, lost weight and experienced significant reductions in blood [...]
Scientists and doctors agree that the secret to a long life may be in your genes, but that good habits make a big difference. Exercise, a healthy diet, staying active and [...]
The idea is the calories you eat should at least match, or be lower than, the calories you burn. Burn more calories than you eat, and you may lose weight over time. Counting [...]
Eating mostly plant-based foods may lower blood levels of harmful fats, new research confirms. For the study, researchers pooled results from 30 trials (including a total of [...]
Weight loss is a personal journey, but like many things in life, being able to make informed decisions can lead to desired outcomes, and this is also true when shopping for [...]
If you get cross-eyed thinking about carbohydrates, that’s understandable. They can be, quite literally, both simple and complex. They abound in snacks that nobody [...]
Nutrients are essential, as they help our body to function properly and maintain overall health. When it comes to our body and health, each nutrient has a unique role to [...]
Intermittent fasting isn’t easy. We may have evolved to eat only episodically and to do without food for long stretches, but imposing this on ourselves is another matter. [...]
Snacking contributes close to one-third of all of the calories that adult Americans consume every day, so it’s important to make sure those calories are as [...]
A new study is casting doubt on the allure of intermittent fasting. The research, which evaluated more than 100,000 adults over nine years, claims that eating breakfast [...]