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7 Health Foods That Can Ruin Your Diet

Even when you think you’re eating healthy, you may want to think again… There are some foods pretending to be healthier than they really are. Or they may be healthy in themselves, but only if you don’t...

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Runners: Eat, Drink and Be Healthy

Whether you’re a casual runner or training to run a marathon, you need a diet that’s high in carbohydrates, moderate in protein and low in fat, says Cleveland Clinic Sports Health dietitian Kate...

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Will ‘The 100’ Diet Keep the Weight Off?

Imagine a diet where fruit and whole grains can be the bad guys. It sounds strange, but that’s what “The 100” diet promotes by restricting consumption of sugar calories to 100 per day for quick weight...

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Are Carbs Really That Bad for You — or Not?

When you’re focused on losing or maintaining weight, you get plenty of advice about carbs. What’s the truth — should you avoid carbs at all costs, or just certain ones? Our dietitians reveal the facts...

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Why a High-Carb Diet Is Sabotaging Your Health

For most of our 8 million years on the planet, we ate a very plant-rich diet. As hunter-gatherers, we ate about 800 different plant species, along with wild animals and wild fish. We didn’t eat grains...

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The Best Time of Day to Eat Carbs

A carbohydrate is like the internet. It can either help or harm you — it just depends on how and when you consume it. “You want to find the right balance,” says registered dietitian Kate Patton, MEd,...

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The Best Ways to Fuel Your Workouts Might Surprise You

You’re committed to regular workouts, hitting your groove with daily cardio. Perhaps you’ve discovered the joy of rushing endorphins filling your brain after a morning run or Pilates has transformed...

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How Long Does It Take to Digest Food

Why is it after eating certain foods, you can feel full for hours, but after others, you’re looking for a snack within minutes?  It’s all about your body’s digestion of food and several other factors...

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Should You Eat Before or After a Workout?

A well-planned workout begins and ends the same way: with eating the right foods. How you fuel and refuel before and after exercise helps determine the actual fitness-building benefit of the session....

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How To Stop Your Cravings for Carbs

You know the feeling: You’re hit with a wave of hunger and you start scarfing down any carb-loaded snack you can get your hands on. But after the binge, comes the regret and then, a few hours later,...

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Recipe: Grilled Turkey Burgers With Parsley and Dill

It’s time for some mouth-watering (but healthy!) burgers. They’re loaded with farm-fresh staples like scallions, dill, red onion, parsley and sprouts. With lean ground turkey and whole-grain...

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Quick Snacks To Help Kick Your Sugar Craving

Ah, sugar. Most of us turn to sugary snacks to help us get through the day. It’s a hard habit to break, for sure. While foods like pastries, desserts and candy are full of sugar, you may not realize...

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What Are Macronutrients and Micronutrients?

You may have heard your health-conscious friends talk about “counting macros” or the macronutrients in the foods they eat. But what exactly are they doing and how does counting macros, or...

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How Many Carbs Do You Need To Lose Weight?

You know them well: pastas, breads, rice and potatoes. Called carbohydrates, or carbs, they’re the go-to nutrient that many people try to cut down on (or cut out) when trying to lose weight. But we...

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How To Correctly Read a Nutrition Label

Grocery runs can be chaotic, especially if you’re winging it and trying to eat healthy. Luckily, products have nutrition labels on them that explain important information about what you’re eating and...

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Recipe: Southwestern All-Veggie Wraps

Expand your plant-food menu options with this tasty wrap. Collard greens replace the traditional flour-based wrap and are stuffed with fresh corn, tomatoes and peppers. Each wrap is topped with a...

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Carbs Aren’t the Enemy: Learn to Spot Healthy Carbs (and Why They Matter)

If you’ve been paying attention to celebrity-endorsed fad diets recently, you’ve probably gotten the impression that carbohydrates (carbs) are to be avoided at all costs. Carbohydrates tend to get a...

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