Food and Nutrition

The Paleo Diet. Magic Bullet or hot air?

Too much salt in your diet can negatively affect your heart health and your waistline. Here’s how to manage your sodium intake.

Here are the chemicals to avoid in meats and fish that can negatively affect your health and waistline.

Making over your July 4th to leave you feeling good, energized, happy and healthy.

Follow these tips to help you eat healthy when you’re away from home.

Quit dieting and learn to make healthy eating habits your new way of life.

Does booze make you fat? Survey says...YES. Did I just date myself with that reference? Hoping most of you got that. Ok, moving on. Yes. Alcohol is a major offender when it comes to weight loss and frankly imbibing too often is extremely detrimental to your health in general.

To maintain a healthy weight, the key is to burn all the calories per day that you consume. To lose weight, you need to burn more than you take in. It’s really that simple. Obviously, the quality of your food will dramatically impact your overall health in time, but fat is stored energy and losing weight in large part is a calories in, calories out equation. So, combined with a good exercise regimen, dropping pounds—or staying slim—depends on monitoring your calorie intake.

Find out why you should say no to out-of-season fruits and vegetables, and what to buy when.

Follow these guidelines to help get your snacking under control.