Hey, you’re having a salad for lunch. That’s great! But wait! What’s that dressing you’re drowning it in or that sauce your dipping food into? Oh no! What are you spreading on your sandwich? Is that stuff good for you? Not if it’s made from seed oils. Seed oils, also known as vegetable oils, have become a staple in the …
Spring is upon us. It may not feel like it in some parts of the country, but fresh fruits and vegetables are right around the corner. After a long winter of canned and frozen food, not to mention supply chain issues, our bodies yearn for the taste of nature in its purest form. Where’s the best place to find the …
Did you know that in 2019 the weight loss and diet control market was worth $72 billion in the U.S.? Imagine the market after two-plus years of pandemic-induced Door Dash deliveries. Over the past couple of years of wearing sweatpants, we may have become a bit soft around the middle. Let’s just say that belts have lost their utility for …
How’s the plan to lose twenty pounds in the new year working out? Whether the answer is excellent, not so great, or a work in progress, one of the biggest obstacles in any weight loss journey is eating in a restaurant. The siren’s song of the drive-thru window or fast-casual dining experience doesn’t stop just because you want to lose …
Do you know that the average American consumes 152 pounds of sugar in one year? Everyone wants to be healthy, and most of us try to eat foods we believe will help us stay on track. But, many of these “healthy” foods actually work against us. It doesn’t take a nutritionist to tell us that french fries and cotton candy …
With the last ghosts and goblins clearing the streets, we now enter the seemingly earlier annual descent into the holiday season. If you haven’t yet witnessed your first Christmas commercial or that one neighbor replacing the pumpkins with twinkling lights, it’s coming soon. After spending last year’s holiday season on lockdown, and even though we’re far from out of the …
Happy Halloween! Remember slogging around the neighborhood wearing a plastic mask full of sweat and spit just to score a bag of cheap candy? Sure, a few houses handed out full-size Snickers, Reeses, or Butterfingers, but there was always one house that dropped a pencil or dental floss into your jack-o-lantern bucket. Those people usually ended up on the trick …
The holiday season is fast approaching, and like billionaires with private jets, it’s vacation season for our diets. After mostly skipping last year’s festivities due to the pandemic, this season looks like a breakout year for office parties, family celebrations, and reuniting with old friends. Maintaining healthy eating habits is less complicated when we control the ingredients and preparation at …
You love salt. You crave salt. Salt, more specifically sodium, is a vital human nutrient. We’ve depended on salt for the very survival of our species and as a foundation of civilization. Why do we now think of salt as harmful? History of salt Anthropologists believe the use of salt originated long before its recorded history, dating back to around …
