Healthy Living

Dieting can be hard! Let us take the guess work out of meal planning!
One of the greatest hurdles to weight loss is reshaping our eating habits. We simplify your dieting experience by ...
Intermittent Fasting Benefits: Exploring Emerging Research and Clinical Applications
What is Intermittent Fasting? Did you grow up with our parents who told you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? The wo...
LDL Cholesterol: Particle Number & Size Matter
In the past, most of the emphasis on treating dyslipidemia and dyslipidemia-induced heart disease such as coronary heart disease (CHD) and ...
How to Handle E. Coli Outbreaks
Back in the Spring of 2018, if you were shopping for Romaine lettuce in your grocery store, you most likely noticed the empty spaces in the...
Prevent Cognitive Decline with a Mediterranean Eating Pattern
Did you know that the risk of several chronic, degenerative diseases may be reduced by adopting a Mediterranean diet? A Mediterranean diet ...
Increased Hunger May Be the Reason Why Diets Fail
Dr. Kevin Hall conducted a study of 14 participants in the "The Biggest Loser" TV show. This study was widely interpreted as showing that ...
Plant-based Diet Tips for Kids and Teens
As kids stake claims to their independence when it comes to eating, more tweens and teens are experimenting with vegetarian and vegan diets....
Are Food Color Additives Safe?
Have you ever wondered how food manufacturers add colors to food such as the yellow color of margarine, the green color of mint-flavored ice c...
Cacao, Cocoa and Chocolate Are they the same?
What is the difference between cocoa, chocolate, and cacao? At first glance, cacao and cocoa almost seem like the same word, but technically t...
Why We Should Eat Less Red Meat
It can be difficult to know whether we should continue eating processed and unprocessed red meat. We may hear that it is healthy to consume a...
The Health Benefits of Mushrooms
Are mushrooms vegetables? We find mushrooms in the produce section of the grocery store and the USDA includes mushrooms in the list of veget...