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heart shaped cutting board with healthy foods surrounding it Credit: Getty / carlosgaw heart shaped cutting board with healthy foods surrounding it Credit: Getty / carlosgaw heart shaped cutting board with healthy foods surrounding it Credit: Getty / carlosgaw heart shaped cutting board with healthy foods surrounding it Credit: Getty / carlosgaw To say there’s a lot of confusing and contradictory diet-related advice swirling around is an understatement. One day, eggs are bad for you....

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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 60 to 85% of the people in the world are sedentary, “making it one of the more serious yet insufficiently addressed public health problems of our time,” health experts at the organization say. Desk jobs, an increased reliance on technology and the pandemic—and related mental, physical and environmental barriers to movement—have caused rates of inactivity to rise in recent years. And we’re not just losing out on the muscle that we might build by moving....

Welcome to Thrifty. A weekly column where assistant nutrition editor and registered dietitian, Jessica Ball, keeps it real on how to grocery shop on a budget, make healthy meals for one or two, and make earth-friendly choices without overhauling your entire life. I really love to cook, and I’ve been cooking for myself for a while now (check out the things I wish I knew before I started cooking for more on that)....

Trader Joe's High Fiber lunch ingredients - ThePrep Our column, ThePrep, has everything you’ll need to make meal planning and meal prep as easy as can be. Sign up here to get a meal plan delivered to your inbox every Saturday! The middle of January is usually when people’s New Year’s resolutions start to fade. Often, it’s because those resolutions were too lofty to begin with and hard to maintain in everyday life....

Science about how to keep our brains sharp as we age has focused on the importance of staying active, following a mind-friendly meal plan and scoring enough sleep. More recently, researchers have begun to dive into how social, emotional and even spiritual practices might play a role in long-term brain health as well. We’re learning that social isolation can lead to quicker declines in cognition over the lifespan, and a new review just published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that a consistent meditation routine can reduce stress—as well as the risk of memory loss, cognitive impairment and even Alzheimer’s disease as we age....

6538902.jpg 6538902.jpg 6538902.jpg 6538902.jpg The meat industry is changing, with a large percentage of product arriving to stores prepacked and precut these days. That leaves not much for the actual workers behind the butcher counter to do—but not everywhere. When it comes to butcher counters, Whole Foods Market sets the bar high. The chain of more than 500 stores offers a rigorous 18-month apprenticeship program for team members who want to become butchers....

Can understanding the GI help you manage your diabetes? All the carbohydrate foods we eat cause a release of glucose into the bloodstream-and a corresponding rise in insulin-but some raise glucose more than others. The glycemic index was created to differentiate those foods from each other: it’s a system of ranking foods containing equal amounts of carbohydrate according to how much they raise blood-glucose levels. It can help you, at least theoretically, to choose foods that have a gentler effect on blood-glucose levels....

On This Page What Are Coconut Aminos? Where Can You Buy Coconut Aminos? Are Coconut Aminos Good for You? Do Coconut Aminos Taste Like Soy Sauce? What Can You Substitute for Coconut Aminos? For a tasty change of pace from soy sauce, try coconut aminos, a salty-sweet condiment with a buttery finish. This sauce rose to popularity through the paleo diet, but with its unique flavor, it’s worth the shelf space in any kitchen, paleo or not....

Vegan Quiche Credit: Will Dickey Pictured Recipe: Vegan Quiche If you’re following a vegan or plant-based diet but hankering for some cheese, you may not need to skip it. While real cheese traditionally comes from the milk of cows, goats or sheep, alternatives made with nuts, nutritional yeast and vegetable oils are popping up. Thank food technology, human ingenuity and the popularity of vegan diets for bringing cheese into the dairy-free world....

We all know the importance of exercise and movement for our bodies. Whether it’s going for a run or bike ride to support cardiac health or lifting weights to build muscle strength, our bodies need to be taken care of—and the brain is no exception. It’s important to keep your brain healthy and according to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, there are easy ways to achieve that. Silhouette of a woman with a brain overlaid with gears Credit: Getty Images / Kanyarat Yasowong / Veronika Oliinyk / archivector Why It’s Important to Try New Things In order to keep our brains healthy and functioning, it’s important to develop new brain cells....

Superfoods have a lot of hype around them, but they happen to be some of the healthiest foods to eat every day. While there’s no real, quantifiable definition for superfoods, at EatingWell we think of them as multitasking foods brimming with disease-fighting nutrients that are delivered in a delicious form (think: antioxidant-packed blueberries). But some super-healthy foods are a little too expensive or hard to find to fit into our everyday diets (ahem, goji berry) or something you’d likely only have once in a while (sardines, we’re looking at you)....

A composite image with a jar of charcuterie, chile peppers, tofu and a mocktail Credit: Design by Julian Birchman; Photos: Top left Graze HTX; all other images Getty A composite image with a jar of charcuterie, chile peppers, tofu and a mocktail Credit: Design by Julian Birchman; Photos: Top left Graze HTX; all other images Getty A composite image with a jar of charcuterie, chile peppers, tofu and a mocktail Credit: Design by Julian Birchman; Photos: Top left Graze HTX; all other images Getty...

giada de laurentiis Getty Images / David Crotty | Credit: Getty Images / David Crotty giada de laurentiis Getty Images / David Crotty | Credit: Getty Images / David Crotty giada de laurentiis Getty Images / David Crotty | Credit: Getty Images / David Crotty giada de laurentiis Getty Images / David Crotty | Credit: Getty Images / David Crotty | Credit: Getty Images / David Crotty As a busy mom, host of multiple Food Network and Discovery shows, restaurateur, cookbook author and entrepreneur, Giada De Laurentiis found herself falling into a pattern many of us do when we’re busy: reaching for comfort food or high-sugar treats for a quick energy boost any time she actually had time to slow down and eat....

MB7638_0.jpg By Matthew Thompson, Associate Food Editor for EatingWell Magazine Like every kid who enjoyed the occasional Happy Meal growing up, I have always held a special (yellow, plastic) spot in my heart for McDonald’s. I remember making friends in the sleek, candy-colored Play Places, coveting the flimsy, free toys. In second grade, I committed the entire ’80s-era jingle “Menu Song” to memory (you remember: “Big Mac, McDLT, a quarter pounder with some cheese…”) and sang it to a rapt audience of kindergarteners on the school bus....

Our series, Hormones & Our Health: How What You Eat May Affect How They Work, explores the vast role hormones play in the body and the diet and lifestyle factors that help them function as they should. According to what we’re seeing in the health and wellness world, you’d think that hormone imbalances are an epidemic of their own these days. It’s true that people are being diagnosed with hormone-related conditions—where the body does in fact produce too much or too little of certain hormones, such as diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and endometriosis—at an increasing rate (largely due to advances in diagnosing) and fertility rates continue to decline....

Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup with Rotisserie Chicken Our column, ThePrep, has everything you’ll need to make meal planning and meal prep as easy as can be. Sign up here to get a meal plan delivered to your inbox every Saturday! Now that September is here and we’ve hit the unofficial start of the fall season, I’m so ready for comforting recipes like soups, casseroles and cheesy pastas. This week’s dinners deliver, with cozy yet healthy recipes that are still easy enough to whip up during the busy week....

Cast-Iron Skillet Pizza with Red Peppers, Chicken & Spinach Credit: Jason Donnelly Our column, ThePrep, has everything you’ll need to make meal planning and meal prep as easy as can be. Sign up here to get a meal plan delivered to your inbox every Saturday! My favorite way to end a busy weekday is either on the couch, watching a show with my husband, or on the phone catching up with my mom or an old friend....

Suzy DeYoung La Soupe Suzy DeYoung La Soupe Suzy DeYoung La Soupe Suzy DeYoung La Soupe After operating a catering business in her home city of Cincinnati for 25 years, Suzy DeYoung craved a change. And in 2014, two statistics in the news gave her food for thought: 40 percent of America’s food was going to waste and 42 percent of Cincinnatians were food-insecure. “If I could just take 20 percent from one column and shift it to the other,” DeYoung pondered, “it would be so much better for everybody!...

Thanksgiving is known for its delicious, festive classics like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole and pumpkin pie. And while there’s certainly nothing wrong with these dishes (after all, they’re Turkey Day classics for a reason, right?), they’re not exactly new or different. And when it comes to your Friendsgiving celebration, you may want to switch things up a little—especially if Friendsgiving falls during the workweek when time and energy may be limited....