Healthy Living

One of the biggest nutrition lies we often hear is that cutting back on calories is all you need to lose weight  If you've ever tried to lose a few...

A colorful plate = a nourishing, healthy diet!  Sometimes eating a healthy, balanced diet can seem overwhelming and complicated. However, did you know that the easiest way to see if...

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 word “breakfast” come from breaking...

In the past, most of the emphasis on treating dyslipidemia and dyslipidemia-induced heart disease such as coronary heart disease (CHD) and myocardial infarction (MI) was directed toward low-density lipoprotein (LDL)...

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 Romaine section. The Centers...

Did you know that the risk of several chronic, degenerative diseases may be reduced by adopting a Mediterranean diet? A Mediterranean diet is based on the eating habits of populations that border the Mediterranean Sea....

  Dr. Kevin Hall conducted a study of 14 participants in the "The Biggest Loser" TV show. This study was widely interpreted as showing that the main reason people who...

As kids stake claims to their independence when it comes to eating, more tweens and teens are experimenting with vegetarian and vegan diets. Parents may be concerned that their children...

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 cream, or blue color of blueberry...

What is the difference between cocoa, chocolate, and cacao? At first glance, cacao and cocoa almost seem like the same word, but technically they describe two different products. Let’s find...

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 as much as we’ve always...

Are mushrooms vegetables? We find mushrooms in the produce section of the grocery store and the USDA includes mushrooms in the list of vegetable choices, but technically, mushrooms are fungi....