5 Simple Steps for Healthy Living: Practical Ideas to Keep Your Body Strong and Fit

When it comes to building healthy habits, there always seems to be a challenge we must overcome. Whether it’s hunger, lack of will power or simply not having enough time, making the right choices can be difficult.
5 More Tips for Feeling Great: Practical Ideas to Keep Your Body Strong and Fit

When it comes to building healthy habits, there always seems to be one challenge or another. Whether it’s hunger, lack of will power, or simply not having enough time, making the right choices can be difficult.
The Journey to a Healthier You

Getting into healthy eating and exercise habits is all about you taking charge. See how dietary and activity guidelines can help you make a plan for success with these helpful tips from The Dietary Guidelines Alliance.
Eating Healthy for Diabetes

People with diabetes “deserve” the right to eat healthfully along with everyone else. Yet, it often happens that the diets recommended to persons with diabetes do not promote healthy eating.
Gluten illness among children triples over last 20 years… but those from poor families are only half as likely to be diagnosed
Daily Mail, 1/22/15 The number of young children diagnosed with coeliac disease – where they react to gluten in food – has tripled in the last 20 years, say researchers. But poorer children are only half as likely to be diagnosed with the condition as those from wealthier families.
How the Top 3 New Year’s Resolutions Can Help You Have a Baby in 2015
Huffington Post, 1/22/15 While this resolution often goes hand in hand with losing weight, there are specific dietary habits that can hurt fertility. If it’s processed food, stay away from it. Aim for whole foods and whole grains such as a 100-percent whole-grain bread (read the labels, if it reads “enriched” move on) and vegetables, […]
Better with bacon? Some experts say fats are back in the game
Sacramento Bee, 1/22/15 Recent research in dietary science has led some experts to promote a new idea – that fat, and yes that includes saturated fat, is not as evil as it’s made out to be. Since the 2014 release of the best-seller “Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy […]
Healthy Pizza Is a Real Thing, and It’s Easy to Make!
Shape, 1/21/15 Researchers are zeroing in on what they say could be a major contributor to childhood obesity: pizza. A study in the journal Pediatrics reports that the lunchroom staple makes up around 22 percent of kids’ daily calories on days when they eat pizza, and another study previously cited that 22 percent of kids […]
AHA Skeptical on Salt Study
MedPage Today, 1/21/15 Despite the conflicting evidence on the amount of sodium associated with negative health outcomes (in light of a JAMA Internal Medicine study published indicating lower sodium intake does not impact mortality, CVD or heart failure), the American Heart Association’s president contributed this guest post addressing why as an organization, it won’t change […]
Cranberry Garlic Walnut Stuffing

Stuffing is a holiday staple, but rarely does it steal the show. That all changes this year: This savory version bursts with big flavors from walnuts, garlic and more.