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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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3 Diet-Friendly Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Recipes
Read More: 3 Diet-Friendly Pumpkin Spice Breakfast RecipesIt’s not fall without a healthy dose of pumpkin spice, right? These three seasonal recipes taste delicious and will help you lose weight. It’s not fall without a healthy dose of pumpkin spice, right? From overnight oats to the classic pumpkin spice latte, these three seasonal recipes taste delicious and will help you lose weight.…
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Healthy Pumpkin Chili Recipe
Read More: Healthy Pumpkin Chili RecipeTrade your classic fall-favorite chili for this satisfying veggie-full version that won’t cause indigestion. This acid-watcher-friendly autumn dish provides the warmth and full-bodied richness of a zesty chili — without fear of heartburn. So whether you struggle with GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), chronic acid reflux or heartburn, you can enjoy this fall staple to the…
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Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Gluten-Free Recipes, Healthy Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal
Clean Apple Pie with Gluten-Free Crust Recipe
Read More: Clean Apple Pie with Gluten-Free Crust RecipeNothing says “all-American comfort food” like homemade apple pie. Enjoy a healthier version of this iconic dessert. Clean Apple Pie with Gluten-Free Crust Clean Apple Pie with Gluten-Free Crust Ready in: 1 hour 15 minutes Makes: 8 servings INGREDIENTS Crust 2 cups almond flour (try: Bob’s Red Mill brand) 1/2 tsp unrefined sea salt 2…
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Healthy Drinks, Healthy Protein Shake Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition for Women, Protein Shake RecipesPumpkin Pie Shake Recipe
Read More: Pumpkin Pie Shake RecipeEnergizing pumpkin and cinnamon give your protein shake delicious harvest-festival flavor. Get pumped with pumpkin: Half a cup of pumpkin puree is low in calories (42), high in fiber (3.5 grams) and a great source of vitamin A and beta-carotene. It is also rich in iron (1.5 milligrams), which is important to make hemoglobin and…
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4 Super Easy Seafood Recipes
Read More: 4 Super Easy Seafood RecipesNo matter how you cook it, protein-packed fish is one of the cleanest, nutrient-rich choices for active women. Here are four simple but tasty recipes. High-protein, low-fat, quick-cooking and versatile, fish may be the perfect food for active women. White fish including cod, halibut and tilapia are rich in protein and very low in calories,…
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Healthy Protein Shake Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition for Women, Protein Shake RecipesBanana Peanut Butter Protein Shake
Read More: Banana Peanut Butter Protein ShakeSip this protein shake to keep your muscles growing while you sleep. Postworkout nutrition is critical to supporting muscle growth and repair around the clock. Being mindful of when to eat, rather than just what to eat, is the premise behind a science-proven concept called “nutrient timing.” This shake is perfect for right after a…
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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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How to Eat Healthy When Dining Out
Read More: How to Eat Healthy When Dining OutSticking to your diet doesn’t have to end when you leave your kitchen. Here’s how to stay on track when eating out. Life happens. From Friday nights out with your co-workers to the convenience of grabbing a bite to eat on the go, it’s impossible to control every aspect of your diet. Cheat days aside,…
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Slaying PMS Symptoms
Read More: Slaying PMS SymptomsTry this routine to kick butt during that time of the month. Shark week. Surfing the crimson wave. A visit from Aunt Flo. Riding the cotton pony. No matter how many cute euphemisms we assign to our menstrual cycle, it doesn’t take away the bloating, cramps, fatigue or heightened emotions. Learn how to combat period…
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Healthy Dinner Recipes, Healthy Lunch Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Healthy Soup Recipes, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal3 Chicken Soup Recipes for the Soul
Read More: 3 Chicken Soup Recipes for the SoulNourish your body, aid your digestion and increase your energy with these comforting and nutrient-dense soup recipes. Chicken soup can be a panacea for both colds and fevers. It’s warm and hydrating and appears to prompt anti-inflammatory activity to help you rebound more quickly. Warm up to these delicious chicken soup recipes this fall. Veggie-licious…
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Dinner Recipes, Healthy Dinner Recipes, Healthy Gluten-Free Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By MealHealthy Quinoa Jambalaya Recipe
Read More: Healthy Quinoa Jambalaya RecipeRefuel your body with this clean, protein-rich meal postworkout! You know it’s important to refuel after your workout. Here’s a recipe that fits the bill for meal number one: post-weight workout. We’ve taken a classic New Orleans dish, jambalaya, and gave it a clean makeover. Toss in different fresh vegetables for a good dose of…
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Ask the Nutritionist: How Much Is Too Much Protein?
Read More: Ask the Nutritionist: How Much Is Too Much Protein?What happens if you eat more protein than your body needs? Your individual protein needs will depend on a few factors, including bodyweight, age, activity level and overall health. Active women trying to gain muscle can eat a little more than average, but if your goals skew more toward endurance, performance or fat loss, excess…
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Healthy Eating for Women, Life, Nutrition for Women, Training Advice for Women, Training Tips for Women, Women’s Health12 Tips for Better Fitness and Health
Read More: 12 Tips for Better Fitness and HealthWhen it comes to improving your fitness, nutrition and health, we’ve chosen a dozen of the simplest ways to eat better, perform better and boost your entire well-being. Going to the Gym Without Eating First? Here’s a new incentive: Eat protein before you go and you can peel off 15 pounds a year. A study…
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Healthy Breakfast Recipes, Healthy Eating for Women, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal
5 Fab Foods for Morning Workouts
Read More: 5 Fab Foods for Morning WorkoutsDon’t skip the most important meal of the day, especially if you train in the a.m. These whole-food breakfast ideas will boost your energy and performance. In an ideal world, you’d eat a solid meal or snack 60 to 90 minutes before your early-morning workout, but if your schedule is crazy or you simply can’t…
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Fat Loss for Women, Fat-Loss Strategies for Women, Healthy Eating for Women, Nutrition for Women, Nutrition Tips for Women
How Fasting Can Fast-Track Your Fat Loss
Read More: How Fasting Can Fast-Track Your Fat LossWant to try intermittent fasting? Here are a few things to note before diving in. The fitness crowd tends to throw shade at the idea of skipping meals and snacks to slim down, believing this will eat away at your hard-earned muscle, grind your metabolism to a halt and spur diet-derailing hunger pangs. These days,…
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Healthy Dinner Recipes, Healthy Lunch Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Next-Level Lifting, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal
Candice Lewis-Carter’s Mexican Stuffed Peppers
Read More: Candice Lewis-Carter’s Mexican Stuffed PeppersDare to try this zesty low-carb entrée recipe from Next-Level Lifting Coach Candice Lewis-Carter. Who doesn’t love a savory, low-carb dish that’s also easy to make? Because I maintain a keto lifestyle to help manage my symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), I’m always looking for tasty dishes that focus mainly on protein and vegetables.…
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Healthy Dinner Recipes, Healthy Eating for Women, Healthy Lunch Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal7 Smart and Healthy BBQ Swaps
Read More: 7 Smart and Healthy BBQ SwapsTransform your end-of-summer barbecue menu with these healthy swaps guests will love. As summer winds down, there seem to be a lot of “lasts” — the last few carefree days before school starts, the last of the warm weather and sunshine, and the last barbecue of the season. Whether you’re hosting a Labor Day barbecue…
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The 14-Day Food Detox
Read More: The 14-Day Food DetoxReduce bloating, boost energy and banish starvation cleanses forever with this two-week plan that leverages real food as your internal detergent. Cleanses sound appealing, we’ll give you that. But while the thought of rapid weight loss and ridding your body of circulating toxins seems magical and healing, fact is you may be doing more harm…
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Healthy Drinks, Healthy Recipes for Women, Healthy Snacking, Healthy Snacking Recipes, Nutrition, Nutrition for Women
Rise & Shine Apple Shake Recipe
Read More: Rise & Shine Apple Shake RecipeLooking for something to keep you feeling full? Turn to fiber. Here’s an apple shake that provides almost half your daily needs. Bulk up, belly down! Aim for 25 to 30 grams of fiber per day from fruits and vegetables. On a daily basis, most North American women get only about half the recommended amount.…
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How to Deconstruct Food Marketing Jargon
Read More: How to Deconstruct Food Marketing JargonHere are some common marketing terms and tactics used on food labels. Learn to separate the hyped from the healthy and make the most informed choices about your nutrition. Marketing and magic are frequent bedfellows, and entire teams of people get paid to create David Blaine–worthy illusory campaigns in order to make a product seem…
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Blueberry Fro-Yo Cups Recipe
Read More: Blueberry Fro-Yo Cups RecipeSatisfy a craving for ice cream with this subzero hero. When temperatures soar, it’s likely you’ll have an appetite for anything that will help you keep your cool. But dig into too many pints of rocky road and there is a good chance you will emerge from flip-flop season minus your bikini body. Not all…
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Don’t Fall for These 8 Health Food Frauds
Read More: Don’t Fall for These 8 Health Food FraudsUncover the truth about some popular “health” foods and learn how to separate fiction from fact. Food and drink manufacturers are brilliant at making products seem healthier than they are by using hot-button words like “whole-grain,” “all-natural” and “plant-based.” Some products are so well-disguised that they may unknowingly be something akin to junk food and…
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Get a Better Workout With Matcha Green Tea
Read More: Get a Better Workout With Matcha Green TeaThis natural supplement has stolen the preworkout spotlight, thanks to its many health benefits, including increased metabolism and fat-burning potential. Just as you’re gearing up for your workout, packing a gym bag and topping off your water bottle, the brain fog begins to kick in. All of the sudden, you feel tired, sluggish and unmotivated…
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How to Eat Healthy at a Barbecue
Read More: How to Eat Healthy at a BarbecueWhen it’s time to grill, use these strategies to stay on track. We all know the importance of a healthy diet in keeping our bodies in optimal shape, but we also know how delicious food can be, especially at a barbecue. The aromas wafting from the grill alone can be enough to make our mouths…
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Health Benefits of Essential Amino Acid Lysine
Read More: Health Benefits of Essential Amino Acid LysineLearn how — and why — to boost your dietary lysine intake. Lysine is one of nine essential amino acids, meaning that your body cannot make it on its own and that you must obtain it from your diet. Lysine plays a key role in growth and muscle cell turnover and helps mobilize fat cells…
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Fat Loss for Women, Fat-Loss Strategies for Women, Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating for Women, Nutrition for Women
Eat 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…
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5 Must-Try Dragon Fruit Recipes
Read More: 5 Must-Try Dragon Fruit RecipesFire up your diet with this fabulous superfood — dragon fruit. Though it sounds exotic, dragon fruit — aka pitaya — is now commonplace in most grocery stores. This member of the cactus family has either white or bright pink flesh, and it is the latest superfood being researched for its role in things such…
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7-Day Snack Elimination Challenge
Read More: 7-Day Snack Elimination ChallengeFor one week, challenge yourself to go without any snacks, and reap the mental and physical benefits. Americans are snack-obsessed, and while it’s true that a nibble between meals can help keep energy high, those extra calories could make or break your fat-loss goals. In fact, if you snack frequently, it could add up to…
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Healthy Breakfast Recipes, Healthy Dinner Recipes, Healthy Eating for Women, Healthy Lunch Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal
4-Week Get Fit Meal Plan
Read More: 4-Week Get Fit Meal PlanThis 4-week meal plan will stoke your fat-burning fire and support your get-lean goals — without cravings or deprivation! The problem with most meal plans is that they drastically eliminate macronutrients or slash calories so much that you’re unable to resist the magnetic pull of that darned office doughnut box. But as every savvy Oxygen…
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5 High-Protein Cottage Cheese Recipes
Read More: 5 High-Protein Cottage Cheese RecipesHeads-up, yogurt: There’s a (not-so) new protein-packed kid on the block. Proving everything old is new again, cottage cheese is experiencing a resurgence in popularity as people are once again realizing its nutritional virtues. Cottage cheese adds a protein punch to any meal, any time of day. Work this great white into your weekly meal planning with these…
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4 Delicious Cook-Free Recipes
Read More: 4 Delicious Cook-Free RecipesThese quick, refreshing, cook-free recipes will keep your body well-fed from morning to night. There’s a lot to love about summer — flip-flops, yoga in the park and lazy days at the beach. What’s not fun is hovering over a hot stove to get a nutritious meal on the table. It’s hard to muster an…
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2-Week High-Protein Meal Plan
Read More: 2-Week High-Protein Meal PlanGo ahead — buck the trend, be fearless and follow that high-protein diet. Here’s why science supports eating plenty of this essential macronutrient to hit your get-lean strong-body goals — and two meal plans to get you started. Ask 10 people in the gym how they prefer to eat — for gains, to get lean or…
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2-Week High-Protein Collagen Meal Plan
Read More: 2-Week High-Protein Collagen Meal PlanEven if you’re meticulous about your protein intake, you could still be falling short on one of the most important sources around. Collagen is everywhere these days, and it’s being infused into everything from makeup to peanut butter to hair products and shakes. Why is it so popular among the athletic crowd, and could it…
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1 Food, 5 Ways: Cauliflower
Read More: 1 Food, 5 Ways: CauliflowerBroccoli’s little cousin is getting some serious love. Try these tasty new recipes that feature this superfood. For years, cauliflower has played second string to its flashier cousin, broccoli, but with scads of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and a glut of research proving its cancer-fighting properties, cauliflower can now assert superfood prowess. Try cauliflower one…
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Healthy Breakfast Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal, Sponsored2 Perfect Protein Pancakes Recipes
Read More: 2 Perfect Protein Pancakes RecipesEnjoy your stack of pancakes guilt-free with these two healthy, protein-packed recipes. Everyone loves a tall stack of pancakes, but typical recipes are loaded with carbs and sugar and contain very little protein. Swapping in a protein supplement is a great way to up your morning intake and start your day on the right track.…
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Bison Meatballs
Read More: Bison MeatballsBison Meatballs Ingredients 1 lb ground bison 1/2 cup white onion, diced 2 tbsp black olives, diced 1/4 cup green bell pepper, diced 2 large garlic cloves, diced 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1 tsp basil Sea salt and pepper, to taste 1 tbsp olive oil 1 jar (24 oz) unsalted tomato sauce (organic, if possible)…
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Bikini-Ready Soup
Read More: Bikini-Ready SoupBikini-Ready Soup Ready in: 45 minutes Makes: 6 servings Ingredients 1 tsp olive oil 1 yellow onion 1 celery stalk 2 – 4 cloves of garlic, finely diced 2 large pieces of fresh ginger, finely diced Chili powder or fresh chili, to taste 1/2 large avocado 1 lb cherry tomatoes 1 cup low-sodium chicken stock…
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Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Guilt-Free Desserts, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Nutrition, Nutrition for Women, Recipes By Meal
Bean Brownies
Read More: Bean BrowniesBean Brownies Ready in: 45 minutes Makes: 20 servings Ingredients Dry 3/4 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp sea salt 1/3 cup Sucanat Wet 1 cup canned or boiled black beans, drained and mashed 1/3 cup canola oil 2 medium eggs 2 egg whites 2 tsp…
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Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes for Women, Healthy Vegetarian Recipes, Nutrition, Nutrition for Women, Vegetarian Recipes
Basil Watermelon Gazpacho
Read More: Basil Watermelon GazpachoBasil Watermelon Gazpacho Ready in: 1 hour 15 minutes Makes: 4 servings Ingredients 4 cups watermelon, diced 2 cups cucumbers, peeled and diced 2 cups red bell pepper, finely diced 1/4 cup red onion, minced 1/4 cup basil, minced 1/4 cup parsley, minced 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 1/4 tsp sea salt Instructions Blend half…
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Carb Cycling Meal Plan for Fat Loss
Read More: Carb Cycling Meal Plan for Fat LossBreak through your diet plateau and kick your metabolism into overdrive with this four-week meal plan. Other than tasting amazing, carbs are good for pretty much one thing: providing energy. And let’s face it, going too long without them can take your workouts from awesome to crummy and leave you feeling like a certified couch…
