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Four Ways to Eat Better on a Gluten-Free Diet
The gluten-free diet is a lifesaver for those with celiac disease. But if you’re not careful, avoiding gluten can create new problems: nutrient deficiencies and fat overload.
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Fortified Foods - Four to Choose, Three to Avoid
Historically, food fortification was a public health measure to address nutrient deficiencies, such as adding iodine to salt to reduce goiter or vitamin D to milk to prevent rickets.
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Nutrition Features

Food Fortification: Necessary or Over the Top?
Vitamin D added to milk. Orange juice with added calcium. You consume these fortified foods every day, yet do you know what fortification really means and, more importantly, whether it’s necessary?
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Sardines: The Other Healthy Fish
Salmon is a popular choice for getting omega-3s, but overfishing and high prices have a lot of consumers looking for an alternative. That’s why the humble sardine is suddenly taking center stage.
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2010 Dietary Guidelines: A Blueprint for Health
Every five years, the USDA and Health and Human Services review and update the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
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Out With the Pyramid, in With MyPlate
MyPlate is a new-generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers to think about building a healthful plate at meal times...
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Does Less Meat Mean Less Protein?
For some, swapping a hamburger for yogurt at lunch also means running on an empty tank in spin class.
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Probiotics for Babies
Probiotics—which means “for life”—are “good guy” bacterial strains that thrive in the intestines and benefit human health in a variety of ways.
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Positive Nutrition
Each day, without being aware of it, you see a glass as being half full or half empty with respect to nutrition.
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Eat to Fight Diabetes
Two new cookbooks—15-Minute Diabetic Meals and the Essential Diabetes Cookbook—offer tempting but healthful recipes for people who want to slash their risk of developing diabetes or keep their diagnosis in check.
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10 Reasons to Eat an Apple a Day
Apples are a quintessential food for health that are low in fat and calories and are an enzyme-rich energy food that helps break down and digest other foods.
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A Whole Foods Approach to Sports Nutrition
If you're training for a half marathon or triathalon, do you need energy gels?
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Succulent Strawberries
As if the glorious flavor weren’t enough, strawberries are extremely rich in nutrients and antioxidants that help protect against heart disease, cancer, and inflammation.
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Taming Table Tantrums
You know how critical it is for a toddler to consume a balanced, fruit-and-veggie-rich diet...
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The Best Foods for Strong Bones
Annemarie Colbin, PhD, author of The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones: A Holistic Approach, offers up the best foods for strong bones....
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Promoting Good Nutrition in Kids: Dos and Don'ts
Here are some tips to help parents talk about weight with their children and teach them about good nutrition and weight management...
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Fruits & Veggies: How to Get 9 a Day
Think it’s too tough to get nine servings of fruits and vegetables each day? It may be easier than you’d imagine...
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Helping the Hungry Eat Fresh
In 2006, more than 35 million people in the United States were living in households where access to food was uncertain due to a lack of resources for securing food...
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Superfruits
Can adding açai or other superfruits to your daily diet keep the doctor away?
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Foods That Help You Mend
Make food your ally when you’re battling stress, fighting fatigue or illness, or trying to heal from wounds or injuries.
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Tips From Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives
A chef from the Culinary Insitute of America offers some tips for a healthy lifestyle...
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Tools of Convenience
Convenience foods don’t have to be burgers and fries from the nearest drive-thru...
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Simple Diet Changes, Big Rewards
Here are 10 simple changes to help you lose weight now...
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Kids in the Kitchen
Check out some cooking schools with option for pint-sized chefs...
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More Green for Less Green
Avoid the "dirty dozen" and buy in season to save $$$..
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Cooking With Olives
The early kings of the Jews were anointed with olive oil. Mohammed, Prophet of Islam, counseled his followers to apply olive oil to their bodies.
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Prebiotics and Probiotics: The Bacterial Good Guys
Meet the bacteria that keep your digestive system humming.
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Tips for Healthy Cooking
Healthy cooking doesn't mean you have to become a gourmet chef or invest in special cookware. Simply use standard cooking methods to prepare foods in healthy ways.
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Foods That Boost Immunity
Some West Coast restaurants are now serving “immunity-boosting” dishes...
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Insulin’s Effects on Health
You’re feeling more tired and fatigued than usual, and find yourself craving sugar and anything sweet. The cause?
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Is a Restaurant a Diet Trap?
The pitfalls of eating out. It’s hard to follow your healthful eating plan when you eat away from home...
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Nutrition and Strength
Exercising muscles to increase strength is important, but what about eating to develop strength? If you think this type of eating is just for bodybuilders or powerlifters, you’re wrong... (read more)

Soy Protein: Daily Needs
It seems that with each new study that’s released, soy is “in” one day and “out” the next. Should you include this potentially beneficial food in your diet?
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