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The Family Meal Ritual Creates Healthier Kids Who Do Better in School
There was a time when the family meal was a holy time. Nowadays it often gets shortened, or even eliminated, in the name of overly busy schedules. Yet while getting everyone around the table at the...
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Smaller Portion Sizes Means You Enjoy Your Food More
When it comes to healthy eating, we’re often concerned about the “what.” What ingredients and what products we’re putting on our plate to ensure that we’re eating well and enjoying it in the process....
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Fall Into a New Workout Routine
Autumn is the perfect time to launch into a new workout routine. The temperatures begin to dip, creating cooler mornings and evenings for exercise. Kids go back to school, and the air is filled with a...
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Study Finds BPA Exposure Connected to High Blood Pressure, FDA Maintains Its...
A new study finds that BPA exposure (bisphenol-A) may cause temporary spikes in blood pressure, putting people with high blood pressure at a greater risk of heart attack. BPA is the chemical used in...
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Kids Who Eat Fast Food Consistently Have Lower Test Scores, Study Finds
It’s no secret that fast food isn’t healthy for us—especially for young children. Consumption of fast food meals and sugary drinks has been directly connected to the nation’s obesity epidemic. And...
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7 Vegetarian Protein Sources to Bulk Up Meatless Salads
New year, new you. Great! Eating more greens and less meat. Great! But what to put atop of all of those veggie-licious salads? If you’re looking to bulk up the heft and nutrition content of your...
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How to Make Regular Exercise a Habit You Can Keep
It’s funny that so many of us are trying to establish regular exercise habits at the beginning of the year when it’s freezing cold. In my native South Carolina our winters are mild, but even still,...
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Are These 6 Catchy Health Headlines Actually Ruining Your Health?
If you have turned on a computer, watched television, or opened a magazine in the past several years, you’ve likely seen one of those health headlines trying to make you believe that doing a few...
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The Top 10 Most Inflammatory Foods in the American Diet
The word “inflammation” has become increasingly popular in the last few years because integrative medicine has discovered what we eat has the power to change the levels of inflammation in our body....
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Hidden Side Effects: Why We Don’t Talk About the Risks from Herbs, Vitamins...
One of the most talked about (and often mocked) issues with pharmaceutical drugs is the lengthy and sometimes terrifying list of side effects. You know that fast-talking announcer who reads over them...
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Soft Drinks Kill 25,000 Americans Annually, Study Finds
Gone are the days of lounging at soda fountains and enjoying root beer floats on Saturday night dates. Once an innocent treat, sweetened soft drinks are now considered deadly killers. That’s the...
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Mexican Cilantro Fields Double as Toilets, FDA Bans Imports
If you’re having trouble tracking down fresh cilantro in your local supermarket, you may want to breathe a sigh of relief. The FDA has banned Mexican cilantro imports over serious health concerns....
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Alcohol Consumption and (Good) Fitness Habits Closely Linked, Research Finds
Look out, Homer Simpson—all that beer drinking may actually be healthy for you. Well, almost: Two studies suggest alcohol consumption may correspond to better fitness habits. It’s every parent’s...
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What in the World is Vegan Cheese, Anyway? Can it Actually Replace ‘Real’...
Cheese is traditionally a dairy product, meaning it’s derived from milk (cow, goat, or sheep). But that’s lousy news for vegans. But fortunately, a number of companies have come up with a variety of...
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Bringing Back the Lost Art (and Science) of Fermented Foods
Many of the foods we eat are fermented: bread, cheese, beer, soy sauce, pickles, yogurt. But most of us have no idea how the magic of fermentation happens. Fermented foods have been around for tens of...
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We are So in Love with the Love Goodly Subscription Box!
You know how natural beauty boxes are all the rage, right? Seen them, done that, nothing new. If that is how you feel, time to meet Love Goodly. What’s so different or special about this box? For...
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WTH is Honey Water? And Should it Be Your New Bev of Choice?
It’s sweet, delicious, healthy, and made by those hard working honey bees we love. Should you be drinking honey water daily? You read about so many health foods it can be difficult to make room for...
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Global Obesity Epidemic Climbing to 1 in 5 by 2025, Shows ‘No Chance’ of...
The planet’s obesity epidemic is on target to impact 20 percent of the global population by 2025, a new study finds. The acceleration of obesity across the planet is so significant–outpacing the...
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What Causes Overeating? A New Study Says it’s Overeating in the First Place
Have you been there? You’re just a little hungry at dinner time. Maybe you actually don’t even remember what you had for lunch, if anything. So, even though you’re not famished, you decide you should...
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7 Midsummer Beauty Essentials: Everything You Need to Look and Feel Great
We are getting back to beauty basics this year. That doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun with accessories, right? All the items you need to look and feel your best for the season. When summer...
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