5 Easy Herb Upgrades to Make Your Healthy Meals Even More Flavorful

You might love sprinkling basil leaves on your Caprese salad or garnishing an omelet with fresh chives, but there are plenty of other herbs out there to add to your repertoire. “Many people realize that leafy greens provide a ton of nutritional benefits to the diet, but they often overlook herbs,” says Natalie Rizzo, RD...

Exercise Is Essential for a Strong Immune System

It's well-known that exercise is good for overall physical and mental health, and that most of us should be getting more of it. But if you lean more toward couch potato than marathoner, you might need a little extra motivation to lace up your sneakers. After all, many gyms are still shut down—or we don't feel comfortable...

3 Key Macronutrients to Eat Every Day (and How They Differ From Micronutrients)

When diving into the world of nutrition, there are a lot of different factors you can focus on. Everywhere you turn it seems that someone is touting the next obscure micronutrient purported to radically change your health. When it comes down to it, though, nutrition is built on three main macronutrients that pretty much everyone is at least somewhat familiar with...

How Walking Can Help You Lose Weight, Decrease Stress, and Lower Blood Pressure

One of the most powerful ways to maintain a healthy weight, stay strong, and live longer is so shockingly simple, even a toddler can do it. The health benefits of walking are endless, and experts agree by adding walking to your routine, you can truly improve your physical and mental health...

How Extreme Weather Affects Your Health

We can no longer ignore the effects of climate change. From shrinking glaciers to frequent heatwaves, the future none of us wanted to imagine is already the present. We’ve already seen natural disasters hit the far corners of the earth and, according to the experts, this is just the beginning.

Understanding the health implications of this colossal...

How to Stop Snoring

Snoring can bother your bed partner, and can sometimes be a red flag for health conditions (notably, obstructive sleep apnea). But sometimes you’ve got a snoring habit that is harmless and still drives your partner nuts. Here are some of the ways you can become a quieter sleeper...

For many people, snoring is more likely when lying...

I'm Traveling for The Holidays. How Can I Maintain a Healthy Routine?

You wouldn’t believe how often I hear this question! Every year when the holidays roll around, this becomes a main concern for many of my clients and followers on social media. And it’s understandable: When your environment and schedule get thrown off, it can be a challenge to maintain the healthy routine you worked so hard to implement...

How to Start the Mediterranean Diet — Meal by Meal

Considered one of the healthiest diets in the world, the Mediterranean way of eating cuts processed foods and red meats, focusing instead on fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, healthy whole grains and extra-virgin olive oil.

Eating this way has been shown to reduce the risk for diabetes, high cholesterol, dementia, memory loss, depression and breast...

What Daily Value Actually Means And Why It's Important for Healthy Eating

Good nutrition is essential for both the mind and body, but most Americans don't follow a healthy diet. That's where the daily value system comes in.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) created the daily value system to make it easier for people to meet their daily nutritional needs...

This Is the Proper Way to Calculate How Many Calories You Need to Eat

Old school calorie-counting, it seems, is back in style.

For years diets like keto, Paleo, and “clean eating” reigned supreme, with a focus on limiting specific foods instead of overall food consumption. But according to the 2021 Food and Health Survey put out by the International Food Information Council, it seems that counting calories...