The Best Eating Habits to Fight Inflammation

10/06/2024

Inflammation. It's an essential process our bodies undertake to heal from injury and illness; however, it can become disastrous when chronic. When your body is in a state of chronic inflammation—commonly caused by a poor diet, stress, or lifestyle habits like smoking—it can lead to cellular damage along with an increased risk of weight gain, heart disease, and inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis...

What You Need to Know About Summer Camps This Year

07/06/2024

At this time last year, most of us had no idea whether summer camps would be open for 2020, as COVID-19 spread throughout the world. This year, though the pandemic is far from over, things are looking a lot better for kids longing for a summer full of friendship bracelets, swim classes, sun burns, and silly songs — and for parents hoping to give kids some of those quintessential experiences...

How to Avoid Injury When You Return to the Gym

04/06/2024

Returning to the gym after a long time off is a strange feeling. You’re either weaker than before, or you’re fit in a different way (maybe you didn’t lift while your gym membership was on pause, but you ran a lot), yet you still remember your old weights, your old paces, your old routines.

Hopping back in as if you never left is a recipe for disappointment...

Can a Low-FODMAP Diet Help Your Digestive Issues?

01/06/2024

If you’re one of the 10% to 15% of people who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a GI disorder that can cause constipation or diarrhea, pain, bloating, tweaking your diet to discover foods that trigger those symptoms can be game changing. Research suggests that most people with IBS experience significant improvement with a low-FODMAP diet...

Side Effects of Eating Frozen Foods, According to Science

29/05/2024

Frozen foods have gotten a pretty bad rap over the years thanks to the rise of T.V. dinners and microwaveable mac and cheese. Traditionally, freezer meals are loaded with sodium, preservatives, synthetic flavors, and other sketchy ingredients to help prolong shelf life as well as enhance flavor that's seriously lacking. So to say that most frozen meals are unhealthy is pretty accurate...

Exercise Mistakes That Can Shorten Your Lifespan, Science Says

26/05/2024

Given the choice, would you choose to live forever? It's a question humans have been asking themselves for thousands of years, but immortality is probably better off as a fantasy. Eternal life would undoubtedly get pretty boring after the first 500 or 5,000 years. One survey of over 2,000 adults conducted by New Scientist reports that only one...

One Major Side Effect of Eating Oatmeal, Says Science

23/05/2024

At this point, you're probably aware oatmeal can do a lot for your body. It's a good, natural, complex carbohydrate, it's full of vitamins and minerals, and it's incredibly versatile (hello, overnight oats). And yet, while there's a lot about oatmeal that we love, there's one major side effect of eating oatmeal that we can't help but point out, and that's how oatmeal can keep you feeling full for hours...

The Easiest Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol, Says Science

19/05/2024

Ask the average Joe on the street to name the easiest ways to lower cholesterol and he'll most likely tell you to nix the eggs and the fatted calf from your supper table. He wouldn't exactly be wrong or right, and you can't really blame him.

Despite the profusion of nutrition info everywhere you look, there's still a lot of confusion about dietary cholesterol...

Should You Be Drinking Protein Water? A Registered Dietitian Weighs In

16/05/2024

It's human nature to want our foods and drinks to do The Most. It's why we herald foods that cover several nutrient bases at once (like protein- and omega-3-rich eggs or protein- and fiber-filled beans) such healthy wins. So it makes sense that if there was a way to hydrate and meet our protein needs at the same time, it would be worth sipping on, right?

7 Surprising Fall Foods That Will Help You Sleep Better

14/05/2024

According to the CDC, adults should get 7 or more hours of sleep each night, but due to life's stressors getting to sleep and staying asleep may not be that easy to do. With autumn's falling temperatures right around the corner, nothing may seem more appealing than a cozy evening spent in bed—so what can we do when all we want is to drift off...