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These 9 Foods Are the Most Common Causes of Food Allergies
22/12/2024
Most people know about food allergies to peanuts and shellfish. However, there are now nine foods that are considered responsible for almost all food allergies and must be listed on food labels.
A new one was just officially added to the list—sesame...
How to Stop Mindless Snacking and Other Bad Habits Keeping You from Weight Loss
19/12/2024
That habit of eating candy every afternoon can sabotage weight loss and impact all aspects of health — from a blood sugar spike to brain fog to tooth decay — and if it feels impossible to break, that’s by design.
The brain is a “habit machine,” built that way by evolution to help make navigating life easier, said Russell Poldrack, a neuroscientist...
Experts Explain How Volume Eating Can Help You Lose Weight While Still Feeling Full
16/12/2024
If you want to lose weight, you have to be eating in a calorie deficit - but cutting calories can often cause you to feel hungry and sluggish. Enter: volume eating, also known as volumetrics. The concept is based on The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet by nutrition scientist Barbara Rolls, and it encourages people to fill up on foods that are...
How Processed Foods Cause Weight Gain
12/12/2024
Both nutrition scientists and the public debate the relative merits of so-called healthy diets, such as vegan, paleo, and low-carb, but most experts agree on one thing: avoid ultra-processed foods and stick to a diet of whole, unprocessed foods. Ultra-processed foods contain high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, and artificial flavors that make...
10 Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes You Can Make in Minutes
09/12/2024
Have you ever picked up a bottle of salad dressing at the store that has a long list of unrecognizable, secret ingredients? Because that has definitely happened to me, and it's infuriating! While I understand there are particular chemicals and perspectives used to keep the bottle lasting on the shelf, it's disheartening for someone who tries...
How Tai Chi Can Ease Pain, Improve Your Balance, and Protect Your Bones
06/12/2024
This Is the 'Bare Minimum' Amount of Veggies You Need to Eat, Say Experts
03/12/2024
There are so many reasons why you should be eating vegetables—most of which you probably already know—but they're worth repeating...
Your Guide to Essential Winter Greens and How To Use Them
30/11/2024
Even though there’s a heck of a lot of plant-based foods out there, greens are often thought of as one of the foundational foods of plant-based eating. This is because they have high concentrations of vitamins, nutrients, and minerals. They’re also inexpensive and widely accessible; even in the dead of winter, there’s still plenty of varieties of greens that are in season...
How To Use Psychological Flexibility To ‘Bend’ Negative Emotions Rather Than Deny Them
27/11/2024
Even if you're a glass-half-full type of person, no one can be positive all the time. But it's also just as true that how we respond to negative emotions when they surface can have a direct effect on our overall mental health. Often, there's a desire to completely push negative thoughts away or become consumed by them completely...
How Extreme Weather Affects Your Health
24/11/2024
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...