Have you ever gone to a restaurant with the healthiest intentions – a salad followed by grilled fish and steamed vegetables – only to find yourself halfway through a bacon cheeseburger and onion rings? Or, on the other hand, have you ever listened to everyone at your table order a salad with grilled chicken, only [...]
Just a few years ago, agave nectar was an obscure sweetener found only in health stores and a few small coffee and tea shops. By the time it was picked up by the media as a vitamin-packed, low-glycemic index alternative to sugar, you could find it in any grocery store, big or small. Since then, [...]
Here in the US, someone has officially (or unofficially) dedicated each day to a specific food item. Some make sense – St. Patrick’s Day, for example is Corned Beef and Cabbage Day, and Halloween is National Candy Apple Day. And some, perhaps, are an excuse to eat a pretty unhealthy food, like National Cheeseball Day [...]
Continue Reading →Springtime: melting snow, foggy mornings, budding flowers…and Spring Break! While you may not be able to get away from the office to visit Europe this year, you can celebrate your own Spring Break by bringing the flavors of the Mediterranean to you. After a winter of starchy vegetables, Spring brings a variety of fresh produce [...]
Continue Reading →Chances are, you’ve heard of probiotics: the beneficial bacteria that naturally inhabit the human gut. But what about prebiotics? Learn the difference and how to incorporate each into your diet.
Probiotics, including the Lactobacilus and Bifidobacterium strains, populate the intestines. A healthy person has anywhere from 100 to 300 trillion of these microorganisms. These bacteria [...]
Continue Reading →Inflammation might get you thinking about allergic reactions, or maybe arthritis. But the truth is, inflammation is a biological response that affects everyone. Acute inflammation is necessary: it’s the body’s first response towards infection or trauma, resulting in swelling, redness, and pain. Chronic inflammation, however, occurs when the acute response doesn’t totally dissipate; as a [...]
Continue Reading →In the last edition of Red Light, Green Light, we hit the best and worst picks for Italian, All-American, Mexican, Chinese, and Mediterranean restaurants. Read on to find the healthiest and least healthiest picks for four new cuisines: Japanese, French, Thai, and Indian. A quick refresher: the red light means stop: this dish is one of [...]
Continue Reading →What is clean eating?
“Clean eating” is an eating plan that focuses on whole, unprocessed ingredients – like those found around the perimeter of a grocery store – and that eliminates processed and refined products. Informally, the practice of clean eating emerged in the 60s as parts of society began to reject the chemical- [...]
Continue Reading →Superfoods like açai berry and spirulina get all the hype for containing tons of disease-fighting, age-rewinding antioxidants. But spices and herbs are concentrated packages of antioxidants, often containing more in one tiny teaspoon than a whole cup of a certain fruit or vegetable. One teaspoon of oregano, for example, has more antioxidants than a half [...]
Continue Reading →In two days, cultures all over the world will celebrate the New Year. Along with a customary champagne flute, party-goers celebrate with traditional foods that bring luck and prosperity. The Chinese eat ingot-shaped dumplings; Spaniards pop twelve grapes before the clock strikes twelve; and almost everyone eats a green vegetable in some form or another. [...]
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