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Follow the Mediterranean Diet and Lower Your Risk of โฆ Everything
Read More: Follow the Mediterranean Diet and Lower Your Risk of โฆ EverythingWeโve all heard that a Mediterranean diet rich in legumes, veggies, olive oil, fish and lean meats is good for us. The evidence is clear: It lowers the risk of dementia, depression, breast cancer and diabetes. Thatโs why, last year, after visiting southern Spain, I decided to incorporate most of these healthy foods into my…
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Are Protein Bars Actually Good for You?
Read More: Are Protein Bars Actually Good for You?Protein bars have become the go-to snack for busy women trying to eat healthier. They’re tucked into gym bags, desk drawers and carry-on luggage, promising a convenient way to build muscle, manage weight and power through the afternoon slump. With packaging that highlights words like “clean,” “natural” and “high protein,” it’s easy to assume you’re…
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Understanding Ultraprocessed Foods
Read More: Understanding Ultraprocessed FoodsItโs hard to escape ultraprocessed foods these days. A whopping 70% of our food supply is ultra-processed in the U.S. And unfortunately, quantity doesnโt necessarily mean quality when it comes to these food and drink options. Many studies have linked ultraprocessed foods to an increased risk for serious health conditions such as obesity, Type 2…
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Is Sourdough Bread Healthy?
Read More: Is Sourdough Bread Healthy?Brittani Blizinski was scrolling through TikTok last year when a post about making sourdough bread caught her eye. Sheโd never thought of herself as a โbread person,โ but there was something about the unique fermenting process and the bubbly, tangy final product that spoke to her. โIt just looked like fun,โ Blizinski said. And when…
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7 Ways to Maintain Healthy Habits During the Holidays
Read More: 7 Ways to Maintain Healthy Habits During the HolidaysStop us if this sounds familiar: Youโve been working out and making healthy choices for months and then a whiff of pumpkin pie sends you into a stress spiral anticipating all the ways youโre going to destroy your progress over the holiday season. A lot of people have this mindset that indulging over the holidays…
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5 Ways to Make Your Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dishes Healthier
Read More: 5 Ways to Make Your Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dishes HealthierThanksgiving is right around the corner and you know what that means. Itโs sides time! Everyone knows side dishes are the real star of Thanksgiving. Who doesnโt love a glorious gathering of creamy potatoes, stuffing and green bean casserole (not touching on the plate of course โ weโre not animals). These classics tend to hold…
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The Pros and Cons of Being Vegan
Read More: The Pros and Cons of Being VeganAbout 10 years ago, my best friend Katie decided to try Veganuary. That meant giving up meat, seafood, dairy and any other ingredient that comes from an animal for the month of January. Of course, I had questions. Did she know that vegan meant no more pizza? Are oreos vegan? And did this mean I…
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5 Foods to Help You Live to 100 (Really)
Read More: 5 Foods to Help You Live to 100 (Really)With everyone from healthcare providers to influencers weighing in on the best ways to live longer, itโs hard to separate fact from fiction. Most of us know eating garden-to-table is good for our health, but to what degree? Are there certain foods scientifically proven to increase your lifespan? Enter blue zone eating โ a plant-based…
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Curious About Calcium?
Read More: Curious About Calcium?If youโre a woman of a certain age, when you think of calcium your mind might wander to, โGot Milk?โ The famous campaign from the โ90s forever linked the idea of milk with strong bones and teeth. But why does milk help give you strong bones or teeth? You can thank the calcium. And that…
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I Got in the Best Shape of My Life After 50
Read More: I Got in the Best Shape of My Life After 50As told to Nicole Audrey Spector I knew Iโd been letting stress get the best of me, particularly when it came to poor eating habits, but I didnโt realize how bad Iโd let things get until my work hosted a wellness event and a nurse visited our offices to check our body mass index (BMI),*…
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Food Expiration Dates Donโt Have Much Science Behind Them โ a Food Safety Researcher Explains Another Way to Know Whatโs Too Old to Eat
Read More: Food Expiration Dates Donโt Have Much Science Behind Them โ a Food Safety Researcher Explains Another Way to Know Whatโs Too Old to EatBy Jill Roberts, University of South Florida Floridaโs outbreak of listeria has so far led to at least one death, 22 hospitalizations and an ice cream recall since January. Humans get sick with listeria infections, or listeriosis, from eating soil-contaminated food, undercooked meat or dairy products that are raw, or unpasteurized. Listeria can cause convulsions,…
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The 6 Breakfast Habits to Make Your Mornings Healthier
Read More: The 6 Breakfast Habits to Make Your Mornings HealthierEven though the mantra โbreakfast is the most important meal of the dayโ was designed as a marketing ploy to get you to buy more cereal, thereโs something to be said about how a well-designed breakfast can set you up for success. In terms of health, mental focus, building muscle and feeling energized, the choices…
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How to Gain Weight Healthily
Read More: How to Gain Weight HealthilyFor underweight people or those who yearn to make gains in the gym but find it hard to do, figuring out how to gain weight healthily can be challenging. Sure, you can add on the pounds by living off fried food, salty snacks and sugary treats while never exercising, but doing so will likely result…
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8 Foods to Eat for Healthy Bones
Read More: 8 Foods to Eat for Healthy BonesApproximately 8 million American women have osteoporosis, a disease that weakens and thins bones, leaving them fragile and prone to breaking. What you eat plays a key role in bone health, since our bodies rely on nutrients such as calcium and vitamin D to build and maintain strong bones. Not getting enough of these bone-building…
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7 Ways to Prevent Bone Loss
Read More: 7 Ways to Prevent Bone LossOsteoporosis is a disease that occurs when poor-quality bone tissue causes your bones to become weak and brittle, which puts you at high risk of having bone fractures. Once you have osteoporosis, itโs easy to break a bone as the result of an action that would have been uneventful if your bones were stronger: a…
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What You Eat Can Reprogram Your Genes โ an Expert Explains the Emerging Science of Nutrigenomics
Read More: What You Eat Can Reprogram Your Genes โ an Expert Explains the Emerging Science of NutrigenomicsBy Monica Dus, University of Michigan People typically think of food as calories, energy and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also โtalksโ to our genome, which is the genetic blueprint that directs the way the body functions down to the cellular level. This communication between food and genes may affect your health,…
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The Budget-Friendly 2-Week Meal Plan
Read More: The Budget-Friendly 2-Week Meal PlanWhether youโre grocery shopping for one or trying to nourish a family, food bills can add up fast โ especially if youโre consistent with your healthy get-lean diet. After all, wild salmon, grass-fed beef and microgreens donโt exactly fit into a budget-friendly meal plan. But you donโt have to spend a fortune to eat like…
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How to Talk About Your Healthy Eating With People Who Donโt Get It
Read More: How to Talk About Your Healthy Eating With People Who Donโt Get ItThe pandemic gave many people an opportunity to rethink priorities in life. For some, that meant making dietary changes, such as avoiding gluten, dairy, sugar, alcohol or animal products. Unfortunately, loved ones arenโt always understanding and may inadvertently pressure you to indulge in something you donโt want to. When planning to visit with friends or…
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The 5 Biggest Reasons You Canโt Stop Eating
Read More: The 5 Biggest Reasons You Canโt Stop EatingYou eat, but then an hour later your stomach is screaming. Which may leave tapping into Mr. Google to figure out โWhy am I always hungry?โ Or perhaps it is too late for such inquiries and youโve already slam-dunked a pint of Hรคagen-Dazs.ย Most of the time, you may think hunger and overeating have an…
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7 Recipe Steps You Can Skip for Healthier Eating
Read More: 7 Recipe Steps You Can Skip for Healthier EatingOften, recipes are designed to be so scrumptious that you canโt wait to share it on social media, but sometimes they include steps that arenโt entirely necessary. In reality, there are often a few recipe steps you can skip โ doing so not only will save time, but your food also might even be more…
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Why Oranges Are the Winter Superfruit You Should Be Eating
Read More: Why Oranges Are the Winter Superfruit You Should Be EatingWhen the weather starts to dip and we start pulling out our winter sweaters, many of us start to bring more typical winter foods into our kitchens. From cozy soups to tart cranberry treats, there are some standard go-to foods that grace our dinner plates once the winter months are upon us.ย But one shining…
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How to Make Sustainable Lifestyle Changes in 2022
Read More: How to Make Sustainable Lifestyle Changes in 2022Rachel Sufczynski, MSES, CEP, is a clinical exercise physiologist and health coach specializing in exercise, nutrition, self-care and behavior change. Itโs that time of year again, when diet and exercise equipment commercials take over our televisions. When someone says New Yearโs, the word resolution often quickly follows, even though thereโs nothing particularly magical about making…
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Clean Eating, healthy clean eating, Healthy Clean-Eating Recipes, Healthy Eating, Healthy Recipes, Nutrition
10 Winter Fruits and Vegetables to Add to Your Plate
Read More: 10 Winter Fruits and Vegetables to Add to Your PlateItโs the time of year when immune health is a trending topic. Whether youโre turning to nutrition for disease prevention or treatment, the good news is that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agreesย you canโt go wrong adding more of the bountiful produce selection available this time of year to your diet. While…
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5 Foods Dietitians Say You Should Avoid โ and What to Eat Instead
Read More: 5 Foods Dietitians Say You Should Avoid โ and What to Eat InsteadAs humans living in the 21st century, our options are almost limitless in almost every category โ especially when it comes to food. While our ancestors used to have to forage and hunt for every meal, we can simply stop at a fast-food joint, a convenience store or the grocery store to pick up whatever…
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Why Kids Shouldnโt Eat Added Sugar Before They Turn 2, According to a Nutritional Epidemiologist
Read More: Why Kids Shouldnโt Eat Added Sugar Before They Turn 2, According to a Nutritional EpidemiologistBy Lisa Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences I remember a decade ago sitting in front of my 9-month-old daughter, who was in her high chair, and trying to spoon-feed her a pureed green vegetable. It didnโt matter if it was peas, green beans or something else, because the outcome was the same: I spooned…
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Whatโs the Difference Between Sugar, Other Natural Sweeteners and Artificial Sweeteners? A Food Chemist Explains Sweet Science
Read More: Whatโs the Difference Between Sugar, Other Natural Sweeteners and Artificial Sweeteners? A Food Chemist Explains Sweet ScienceBy Glucose is the simplest of sugars and is a circle of carbon atoms with oxygen and hydrogen atoms attached to the ring. A chemical in the stevia plant also produces sweet flavors. Chemists have developed a number of lab-made chemicals that taste sweet and are sold as no-sugar sweeteners.Evan Amos/WikimediaCommons Artificial sweeteners The third…
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Self-Care Sunday Series
Read More: Self-Care Sunday SeriesEveryone makes resolutions for the new year but by the end of January, many of us have already let our resolutions slide. We asked HealthyWomen Women Health Advisory Council member Rachel Sufczynski, MSES, CEP, if we should even make New Yearโs resolutions and if we do, how to motivate ourselves, particularly in the cold, dark…
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Sugar High
Read More: Sugar HighA couple months ago, Neely Stasik was walking down the street in Chicago when she ran into a few friends she hadn’t seen in years. They were dying to know: Did she still consume crazy amounts of sugar like she did in college? โIn my 20s and into my 30s I was eating candy all…
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Health News Roundup: Fall 2021
Read More: Health News Roundup: Fall 2021The Fido Factor When the pressureโs on, chilling with your dog might help: Researchers at Washington State University found that students who have pet therapy dogs improved their planning and thinking skills over a four-week period. The sessions helped the students relax and rebound from feeling overwhelmed and sharpened their ability to concentrate more effectively…
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3 Ways with Holiday Cocktails
Read More: 3 Ways with Holiday CocktailsโTis the season to be jolly โ and whatโs more jolly than a fancy-looking holiday cocktail? We have three recipes that not only taste good but have carefully curated ingredients like rosemary, turmeric and basil. Cherry Rosemary Vodka Ice We chose rosemary to round out this drinkโs fruity sweetness because we believe even boozy bevvies…
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12 Days of Gains, Desserts, Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Eating, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women
Macro-Friendly Edible Sugar Cookie Dough
Read More: Macro-Friendly Edible Sugar Cookie DoughLooking to satisfy your sweet tooth without straying too far from your healthy diet? Try Oxygen Ambassador Hannah Dawsonโs recipe below. Ingredients (makes 5 servings) 1 tbsp of butter or coconut oil, melted and slightly heated 1/2 cup Kodiak waffle and pancake mix 1 tbsp vanilla protein powder (whey or vegan) 1/4 tsp almond extract…
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Chronic conditions, exercise, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Obesity, Real women real stories, Weight Loss, Weight management
I Fought Generational Obesity by Creating My Own Road Map to a Healthier, Happier Life
Read More: I Fought Generational Obesity by Creating My Own Road Map to a Healthier, Happier LifeAs told to Marnie Goodfriend I canโt recall a single childhood memory that wasnโt affected by obesity. As a 101-pound kindergartener, I remember my mom being upset when my school sent home one of those little school pictures with my weight underneath it, and I was the only child whose weight had three digits in…
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Foods High in Added Fats and Refined Carbs Are Like Cigarettes โ Addictive and Unhealthy
Read More: Foods High in Added Fats and Refined Carbs Are Like Cigarettes โ Addictive and UnhealthyBy Ashley Gearhardt, University of Michigan Every year millions of Americans try to cut down on ultra-processed foods โ industrial formulations that are typically high in added fat, refined carbohydrates or both. Think cookies, cakes, potato chips and pizza. For many, the desire to change what they eat is triggered by concerns about potentially life-threatening…
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Companies Are Pushing Sweetened Drinks to Children Through Advertising and Misleading Labels โ and Families Are Buying
Read More: Companies Are Pushing Sweetened Drinks to Children Through Advertising and Misleading Labels โ and Families Are BuyingPrices for all children’s drinks increased over the study period, but sweetened ‘fruit drinks’ like SunnyD saw by far the smallest price increase. Choi, Andreyeva, Fleming-Milici & Harris, 2021, CC BY-ND Lower prices Advertising is one thing that drives consumption, but pricing strategies also add to demographic differences in purchases. I’ve conducted focus groups with…
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Elimination Diets: What You Need to Know
Read More: Elimination Diets: What You Need to KnowWhether itโs your best friend or a few people you overheard chatting at your cycling class last week, youโre bound to know or have known someone who has tried an elimination diet. While people turn to elimination diets often as a way to find relief from unfavorable gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, itโs important to know the…
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10 Simple Swaps to Add More Fiber to Your Diet
Read More: 10 Simple Swaps to Add More Fiber to Your DietThereโs no escaping the constant nutrition headlines urging you to add more fiber to your diet. But why is this message so prevalent?ย Fiber โ a type of carbohydrate found in plant foods โ appears to help regulate blood sugar and cholesterol levels, boost immunity and maintain weight, research shows. Fiber also helps add bulk…
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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, exercise, Healthy Eating, mental health, Nutrition, Obesity, Parenting, Weight Loss, Weight management
Kids With Obesity Need Acceptance From Family and Friends, Not Just Better Diet Tips, to Succeed at Managing Their Weight
Read More: Kids With Obesity Need Acceptance From Family and Friends, Not Just Better Diet Tips, to Succeed at Managing Their WeightBy Amanda Harrist, Oklahoma State University and Laura Hubbs-Tait, Oklahoma State University Hundreds of programs over the past four decades โ from the removal of junk food from school vending machines to Michelle Obama’s โLet’s Move” campaign โ have tried to get kids in the U.S. to eat healthier food and exercise more often. But…
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The Pandemic Has Made It Even Harder for One in Three Americans to Obtain Healthy, Affordable Food
Read More: The Pandemic Has Made It Even Harder for One in Three Americans to Obtain Healthy, Affordable FoodBy The Conversation, CC BY-ND COVID-19 has made food access more challenging for many communities. In Michigan State University’s Fall 2021 Food Literacy and Engagement Poll, 31% of the people we talked to said the pandemic had affected their household’s ability to obtain food. This included 28% of households earning less than $25,000, and 38%…
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What Are Refined Grains, and Are They Unhealthy?
Read More: What Are Refined Grains, and Are They Unhealthy?In the world of nutrition, some foods are labeled as โgoodโ while others are classified as โbad,โ whether they deserve it or not. Take carbs for example. Options like whole grainsย and fruit are notoriously found in good-for-you recipes and healthy snack choices. Yet the term โrefined carbsโ is often eschewed and placed on the โnever-eatโ…
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Decades of Hype Turned Protein Into a Superfood โ and Spawned a Multibillion-Dollar Industry
Read More: Decades of Hype Turned Protein Into a Superfood โ and Spawned a Multibillion-Dollar IndustryBy French advertising for Liebig’s Extract of Meat. Wikimedia Commons Protein consumption has remained a central component of nutritional advice and marketing campaigns ever since, even amid recycled and recurring arguments over the optimal amount of protein and whether plant or animal sources are best. Around the time Liebig launched his extract company, John Harvey…
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Bone health, Chronic conditions, chronic pain, COVID-19, healthy aging, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Osteoporosis, Pain, Pandemic, Real women real stories
It Wasnโt Muscle Damage: It Was Four Fractures and Osteoporosis
Read More: It Wasnโt Muscle Damage: It Was Four Fractures and OsteoporosisAs told to Liz Sauchelli It had been two weeks since I’d slipped on the front stairs of my home and my back was still in excruciating pain. The emergency room doctor I’d seen after my fall thought I had muscle damage and had sprained my back. He prescribed anti-inflammatories and painkillers without taking an…
