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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Policy, Prevention, Preventive health, Vaccinations, Vaccines
Can Healthy People Who Eat Right and Exercise Skip the Covid-19 Vaccine? A Research Scientist and Fitness Enthusiast Explains Why the Answer Is No
Read More: Can Healthy People Who Eat Right and Exercise Skip the Covid-19 Vaccine? A Research Scientist and Fitness Enthusiast Explains Why the Answer Is NoBy Richard Bloomer, University of Memphis I’m a fitness enthusiast. I also adhere to a nutrient-dense, โclean” eating program, which means I minimize my sugar intake and eat a lot of whole foods for the purpose of optimizing my health. You might wonder how effective such a diet and exercise plan would be in the…
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What I Eat in a Day with Noel Davis
Read More: What I Eat in a Day with Noel DavisWelcome to another What I Eat in a Day! Today, Noel Davis leads us through a few of her favorite meals, snacks and go-tos. As always, we want to stress that there is no one perfect nutrition plan, but we love giving you a sneak peek into the lives of our awesome athletes for inspiration,…
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Healthy Eating, Healthy living, Nutrition, Nutrition Tips, Nutrition Tips for Women, Plant-Based Nutrition
10 Foods that Lower Blood Pressure Naturally
Read More: 10 Foods that Lower Blood Pressure NaturallyGot high blood pressure? According to the American Heart Association, almost half of Americans have it โ and whatโs worse, 1 in 3 individuals donโt even know it. ย ย Having high blood pressure can lead to a host of heart issues, including heart disease, stroke and heart attack. While there are numerous lifestyle strategies that…
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Body image, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Eating disorders, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Self-Care, Weight Loss, Weight management
8 Ways to Manage Body Image Anxiety After Lockdown
Read More: 8 Ways to Manage Body Image Anxiety After LockdownBy Tracy Tylka, The Ohio State University Being able to socialize again may bring enthusiasm and a sense of normalcy โ but it may also increase anxiety over how your body might have changed. I am a psychologist who has studied body image for over 20 years, and I’ve seen how the COVID-19 pandemic could…
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Access, Access to health care, Chronic conditions, Depression, exercise, Health care, Health care professionals, Health disparities, Healthy Eating, mental health, Nutrition, Obesity, Policy, Preventive health, Weight Loss, Weight management
Weight Stigma Is a Burden Around the World โ and Has Negative Consequences Everywhere
Read More: Weight Stigma Is a Burden Around the World โ and Has Negative Consequences EverywhereBy Rebecca Puhl, University of Connecticut Lazy. Unmotivated. No self-discipline. No willpower. These are just a few of the widespread stereotypes ingrained in American society about people who have a higher body weight or larger body size. Known as weight stigma, these attitudes result in many Americans being blamed, teased, bullied, mistreated and discriminated against.…
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Coronavirus, COVID-19, exercise, Healthy Eating, mental health, Nutrition, Pandemic, sleep, Weight Loss, Weight management
How to โBuild Back Betterโ Health Habits After the Pandemic Year
Read More: How to โBuild Back Betterโ Health Habits After the Pandemic YearBy Claudia Finkelstein, Michigan State University The U.S. is in far different shape today than it was last Memorial Day, and many Americans are, too. According to a recent survey by the American Psychological Association, undesired changes in weight driven by pandemic stress are widespread: 42% of adults reported gaining weight, with a median weight…
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Giving Food Pantry Clients Choices โ and Gently Nudging Them Toward Nutritious Foods โ Can Lead to Healthier Diets
Read More: Giving Food Pantry Clients Choices โ and Gently Nudging Them Toward Nutritious Foods โ Can Lead to Healthier DietsBy Caitlin Caspi, University of Connecticut and Marlene B. Schwartz, University of Connecticut Food banks and pantries across the U.S. were forced in the pandemic to dispense with something that is central to most people’s grocery experience: choice. Faced with social-distancing rules and a large uptick in need โ by one estimate these nonprofits served…
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Anxiety, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, Healthy Eating, mental health, Nutrition, Racial disparities, Self-Care, Stress
Seed Money: Black Entrepreneurs Hope Pandemic Gardening Boom Will Grow Healthier Eating
Read More: Seed Money: Black Entrepreneurs Hope Pandemic Gardening Boom Will Grow Healthier EatingBy Chandra Thomas Whitfield, Kaiser Health News DENVER โ Ietef Vita had planned to spend most of 2020 on the road, promoting โBiomimicz,” the album the rapper had released on his #plantbasedrecords label in January. Vita, known to his fans as โDJ Cavem Moetavation” and โChef Ietef,” had those plans unexpectedly cut short. This story…
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Family Meals Are Good for the Grown-Ups, Too, Not Just the Kids
Read More: Family Meals Are Good for the Grown-Ups, Too, Not Just the KidsBy Anne Fishel, Harvard University For all the parents feeling exhausted by the cooking, cleaning and planning of a million meals during the pandemic, there’s some good news. Commensality, or the sharing of food with others, is beneficial for your physical and mental health. Most parents already know that family mealtimes are great for the…
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10 Ways to Quell Emotional Eating
Read More: 10 Ways to Quell Emotional EatingEmotions getting the best of you? If youโre relying on food to cope with uncomfortable emotions or even happiness and excitement, you can officially call yourself an emotional eater. Truth is, everybody fits this description because everybody does it at some point. โEmotional eating is natural because eating is emotional,โ says Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD,…
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1 in 3 College Students Face Food Insecurity โ Expanding Snap Benefits on Campus Will Help Stave Off Hunger
Read More: 1 in 3 College Students Face Food Insecurity โ Expanding Snap Benefits on Campus Will Help Stave Off HungerBy Anastasia Snelling, American University and Rebecca Hagedorn, Meredith College It’s harder to learn when you are suffering from hunger or searching for your next meal. But while around 30 million K-12 students in public schools are eligible for free or reduced lunch, it is a different matter when they leave. Many of those who…
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The Top 5 Foods That Reduce Inflammation
Read More: The Top 5 Foods That Reduce InflammationThe word inflammation is often thrown around when talking about a cut or a wound, but do you really know what it means and what’s going on in your body when it happens? Inflammation is one of the tools our immune system uses to keep foreign entities and pathogens, like bacteria or viruses, from causing…
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Anxiety, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Diet nutrition, Healthy Eating, Pandemic, Research, sleep, Stress, Weight Loss
Unwanted Weight Gain or Weight Loss During the Pandemic? Blame Your Stress Hormones
Read More: Unwanted Weight Gain or Weight Loss During the Pandemic? Blame Your Stress HormonesBy Lina Begdache, Binghamton University, State University of New York If you have experienced unwanted weight gain or weight loss during the pandemic, you are not alone. According to a poll by the American Psychological Association, 61% of U.S. adults reported undesired weight change since the pandemic began. The results, released in March 2021, showed…
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Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, Healthy Eating, Heart disease, Heart health, Lung health, Nutrition, Obesity, Prevention, Preventive health, smoking
Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider About Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider About Diabetes and Cardiovascular DiseaseReviewed by Dr. Nieca Goldberg About one in nine women in the United States have diabetes, a disease that occurs when blood sugar levels can’t be properly controlled and get too high. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes and is also a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which includes heart…
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Ask the Nutritionist: Eating After A Workout
Read More: Ask the Nutritionist: Eating After A WorkoutQuestion: I know I should eat after I work out, but Iโm not hungry. What should I do? A lot of people canโt stomach the idea of eating right after working out, which is scientifically understandable. Research shows that longer or more intense bouts of exercise can slow digestion and suppress the release of ghrelin,…
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Why Intuitive Eating Works for Me
Read More: Why Intuitive Eating Works for MeMy relationship with food changed when I went off to college. It was like all my healthy high-school habits went right out the window. I binge-ate, binge-drank a lot and gained some weight. Eventually, my track coach said, โHey, you came in at this weight โฆ why do you now weigh this? You need to…
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10 Food Rules to Live By
Read More: 10 Food Rules to Live ByCan we all agree that food is fuel? Yes, fuel can โ and should โ be absolutely delicious, but itโs about so much more than that. Wouldnโt it be nice to focus on foods that fuel us versus villainizing certain foods or feeling guilty when eating ones labeled โbadโ in our eyes?ย This is the…
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Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, Health disparities, Healthy Eating, Healthy living, Heart disease, Heart health
The Connection Between Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Women’s Health
Read More: The Connection Between Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Women’s HealthReviewed by Nieca Goldberg, M.D. In 1994, iconic singer Patti LaBelle lived every performer’s worst nightmare โ she collapsed on stage in front of thousands of fans. LaBelle attributed her fall to exhaustion until she learned she had Type 2 diabetes. In spite of watching close family members struggle with the disease โ her mother…
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The Price Is Right 2-Week Meal Plan
Read More: The Price Is Right 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 arenโt cheap. Whatโs more, food prices have increased by more than 3 percent overall in the past year. (Thanks,…
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The Health Benefits of Glutamine
Read More: The Health Benefits of GlutamineGlutamine is the most abundant free amino acid in your body.ย However, it is not considered โessential.โ โGlutamine is called conditionally essential because the body can synthesize it in the liver, skeletal muscles and intestines,โ says Jennifer Weis, RD, LDN. In other words, if youโre not eating enough glutamine, your body will generate it internally. But…
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Fitness, Healthy Eating, Healthy living, Nutrition, Obesity, Real women real stories, Weight management
Representation Matters: Why I Decided to Start a Healthy Habits Instagram Account for Bigger Women
Read More: Representation Matters: Why I Decided to Start a Healthy Habits Instagram Account for Bigger WomenAs told to Gila Lyons Everything changed for me on Christmas Eve at my aunt and uncle’s house in 2017. I knew I’d been gaining weight in college, but I’d been too afraid to weigh myself for years. They had a scale at their house, and, heart racing, I stepped on. I was 298 pounds…
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5 Unique Ways to Use Cashew Butter
Read More: 5 Unique Ways to Use Cashew ButterWhy settle for Skippy when you can have this nutritious upgrade? A study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that adding cashews (or cashew butter) to a typical diet can reduce cholesterol levels. Cashew butter delivers a monster dose of unsaturated fat to keep your heart pumping strong and is packed with essential…
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7 Days of 10-Minute Meals
Read More: 7 Days of 10-Minute MealsSlaving over a hot stove is the last thing you want to do after a long day, making takeout a very appealing alternative. While grab-and-go meals are convenient, they arenโt always the best choice for your wallet โ or your fit-body goals.ย But you can have a healthy, satisfying meal in 10 minutes or less.…
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Healthy Eating, Healthy Recipes, Meal Plan, Nutrition for Women, Nutrition Tips, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes
The Very Vegan Meal Plan
Read More: The Very Vegan Meal PlanTrying to meet your protein needs as a vegan athlete is challenging. Maybe you feel overstuffed with starchy carbs, or maybe you continually come up short from lack of healthy options that arenโt loaded with sodium or preservatives.ย This vegan meal plan offers you some much-needed variety and a full seven days of high-protein plant-based eating.…
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Autoimmune disease, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gastrointestinal health, Gi health, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Stomach
A Healthy Microbiome Builds a Strong Immune System That Could Help Defeat Covid-19
Read More: A Healthy Microbiome Builds a Strong Immune System That Could Help Defeat Covid-19By Ana Maldonado-Contreras, University of Massachusetts Medical School Takeaways Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that are vital for keeping you healthy. Some of these microbes help to regulate the immune system. New research, which has not yet been peer reviewed, shows the presence of certain bacteria in the gut may reveal which…
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The One-Week Muscle-Building Meal Plan
Read More: The One-Week Muscle-Building Meal PlanIf youโre hitting the gym hard and have little to show for it, you might need to revamp your fueling strategy. Likely youโre not eating enough calories to support your muscle tissue repairing and rebuilding itself and may even be cannibalizing your hard-earned muscle to fuel your daily activities.ย This plan makes the most of…
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Vitamin K: A Little-known but Noteworthy Nutrient
Read More: Vitamin K: A Little-known but Noteworthy NutrientBy Kyla Shea, Tufts University When Danish scientist Henrik Dam fed a cholesterol-free diet to baby chicks in his lab about 90 years ago, he noticed excessive bleeding in some of them. It did not stop after he replaced the cholesterol. Dam ultimately concluded the bleeding was related to a โdepletion of an anti-hemorrhagic compound,”…
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18 Million US Children Are at Risk of Hunger: How Is the Problem Being Addressed and What More Can Be Done?
Read More: 18 Million US Children Are at Risk of Hunger: How Is the Problem Being Addressed and What More Can Be Done?By Heather Eicher-Miller, Purdue University; David Himmelgreen, University of South Florida; Diana Cuy Castellanos, University of Dayton, and Kecia Johnson, Mississippi State University Editor’s note: The economic crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has increased the number of Americans who can’t always get enough to eat, including children. The Conversation U.S. asked four experts…
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One-Week Fat-Loss Meal Plan
Read More: One-Week Fat-Loss Meal PlanMore often than not, a diet that severely restricts calories leads to feelings of deprivation and defeat, and when it comes to fat loss, itโs better to fuel up than to skimp out. Too few calories can lead to overeating and binges, ruining any chance you had of losing body fat to begin with.ย This…
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A Hospital That Prescribes Free Nutritious Food to Families Who Need More Than Medical Care
Read More: A Hospital That Prescribes Free Nutritious Food to Families Who Need More Than Medical CareBy Diana Cuy Castellanos, University of Dayton Being food-insecure – unable to get enough nutritious food to meet your needs – can take a toll on your health. So Dayton Children’s Hospital has begun to screen its patients and their families for this problem and refer them to what it’s calling the “Food Pharm.” This…
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Poor and Minority Children With Food Allergies Overlooked and in Danger
Read More: Poor and Minority Children With Food Allergies Overlooked and in DangerBy Sandy West, Kaiser Health News As Emily Brown stood in a food pantry looking at her options, she felt alone. Up to that point, she had never struggled financially. But there she was, desperate to find safe food for her young daughter with food allergies. What she found was a jar of salsa and…
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Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating for Women, Nutrition for Women, Training Advice for Women, Training Tips for WomenEating to Recover
Read More: Eating to RecoverWhat you eat right after a workout (and when you eat it) is crucial to recovery. Here’s how to maximize your results. There’s an old fitness adage that says, “You don’t build your body in the gym. It’s what you do after training that causes physical improvement.” So even if you exercise religiously, you’re selling…
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The 6 Best Probiotics For Your Health
Read More: The 6 Best Probiotics For Your HealthPreventing the common cold, increasing fat loss, improving mood — is there anything probiotics can’t do? From a young age, we are often taught to be wary of bugs as devious little things that bring harm and traumatic nightmares. But now science is increasingly showing that embracing certain critters is one of the best things…
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Good Nutrition Can Contribute to Keeping Covid-19 and Other Diseases Away
Read More: Good Nutrition Can Contribute to Keeping Covid-19 and Other Diseases AwayBy Grayson Jaggers, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The connection between the pandemic and our dietary habits is undeniable. The stress of isolation coupled with a struggling economy has caused many of us to seek comfort with our old friends: Big Mac, Tom Collins, Ben and Jerry. But…
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1 Food, 5 Ways: Peanuts
Read More: 1 Food, 5 Ways: PeanutsYour heart and brain will go nuts for peanuts. Plus, they help lower your risk of weight gain. Your heart and brain will go nuts for peanuts. Plus, they help lower your risk of weight gain. Here are five ways to enjoy them. As a Spread Stir a tablespoon of all-natural, unsalted peanut butter into…
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Fall Back Into Health
Read More: Fall Back Into HealthSince COVID-19 entered our lives, we’ve all reacted differently. For instance, when I’ve felt overwhelmed by quarantining, I’ve turned to sugar — cookies, to be precise — as a coping mechanism. For my best friend, Becky, when she feels anxiety over her finances and her job, those feelings lead to insomnia. Becky and I are…
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Fat Loss for Women, Fat-Loss Strategies for Women, Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating for Women, Nutrition for WomenEat Fat to Burn Fat
Read More: Eat Fat to Burn FatFollow these three simple rules for eating fat to lose fat. Confused by dietary fats? As an active woman, you need fats for three reasons: To function (they help your body absorb the essential vitamins A, D, E and K), to build muscle (fats aid testosterone production, a main trigger in muscle growth) and to…
