Every year, 45 million American adults go on a diet. That’s not surprising when you consider that 180 million American adults—70 percent of us—are overweight...
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Want to Cut Back on Meat?
The health benefits of a vegan diet are impressive. Studies have shown that replacing meat and/or dairy with fruits, vegetables, beans and legumes, and other...
The New Rules for Drinking Wine
In this age of wine in cans, sweet red wine and Instagram wine parties, it’s difficult to believe that there used to be hard and...
Smarter Eating
Protein Power for Pennies If you’ve got sticker shock at the grocery store, you are certainly not alone. Consumers are grappling with sharply higher prices...
Stick to Your Health Goals
Most Americans make New Year’s resolutions, but, by this time of year, most of those goals have been abandoned. Two studies report that only 9...
The Tastiest Health Tonic: A Cup of Tea
Every day, people around the world drink an estimated 2 billion cups of tea, the beverage made from the leaves of the camellia sinensis bush....
Ode to Chocolate: Food of Love and Health
February is National Chocolate Lovers Month as well as American Heart Month, a time when everyone needs to focus on their cardiovascular health, the leading...
The Surprising Roles of Zinc
Zinc, an essential nutrient that your body can’t make by itself, is involved with many different functions of the cells in your body. It’s important...
Does Intermittent Fasting Work…Really?
Intermittent fasting (IF) has become a popular way to lose weight. In one way, we’re all intermittent fasters—we don’t eat while we are sleeping. But...
Bust Belly Fat
There are two main types of fat storage. Subcutaneous fat is stored right under your skin, and visceral fat, the so-called “belly fat,” is stored...
Almost-Vegetarian Entertaining for the Holidays
Entertaining season is upon us! If you are planning to have guests for the upcoming holidays, you may know that some are vegetarian…or you may...
The Right Bubbly for Your Occasion
Americans drink the most sparkling wine—perhaps one-third of all that is sold in this country each year—between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. There are plenty of...
