Score One More for Coffee!
In case you needed any encouragement for enjoying your coffee, a new study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology has found that drinking 2 – 3 cups of …
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Artificial Sweeteners Are Not Good For You
A study published in the BMJ has found a connection between consuming artificial sweeteners and an increased risk of heart disease, concluding that they “should not be considered a healthy and …
Superfood! Quinoa
Quinoa is an ancient, plant-based seed that has been cultivated in the Andes for 7000 years. It is a pseudo-cereal that cooks and eats like a grain but is …
The Quality of Plant-based Diet Matters in Cancer Prevention
Results from a new study presented at NUTRITION 2022 LIVE ONLINE show that eating more healthy plant-based foods and less unhealthy plant-based and animal foods helps prevent all types …
Lycopene is an Antioxidant Superstar
Enjoy a variety of red and pink fruits and vegetables this summer while loading up on the antioxidant lycopene. Antioxidants help your body get rid of free radicals which …
Herbs and Spices Do More Than Add Flavor
One of the key features of the Mediterranean diet is that the food is flavored with lot of herbs and spices including basil, bay leaf, black pepper, cloves, coriander, …
Eat Less Meat to Lower Cancer Risk
A new study from Oxford University has found that vegetarians, pescatarians, and low meat-eaters have a lower risk of cancer. They studied 472,377 participants who were cancer-free at the …
Why Are Plant Foods So Important?
By now you’ve heard over and over that eating a plant-based/plant-forward diet is better for you and helps prevent disease, but you might not understand why. You know plant …
What You Gain When You Leave the SAD
As you make progress towards ditching the Standard American Diet and embrace a more healthful one like the Mediterranean diet, you will also reap numerous health benefits. This is …
New Year’s/New Life Resolution
We are now officially into 2022 and we remain hopeful that this new year will be better than the last one, that we can put COVID in the rear …
More Meat = More Disease
There is another new study which was published in the BMJ Global Health Journal that has studied the effects of increased red meat and processed meat consumption in 154 countries in …
It’s Not How Much Fat You Eat, but Where It Comes From
Healthy fats are necessary for energy and the proper functioning of our bodies, with omega-3 fatty acids being essential fats that our body can’t make and must get from …