Best and Worst Bedtime Snacks
Who doesn’t love putting up their feet and tucking in to a bowl of popcorn or ice cream at the end of a long day? While the occasional bedtime snack…
Processed Meat a Week Increases Risk of Heart Disease
A large study conducted for almost 10 years finds that eating even small amounts of processed meat, like sausages, can significantly increase the risk of heart disease and death. Experts…
Healthy, Protein-Packed Nut Butters
or many of us, the love affair began with lunchbox peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or after-school apple slices slathered with the nutty spread. Maybe you’ve since found other uses for…
Talk to Your Child Like an Adult
A bit of baby talk and mimicking a child’s sounds during the earliest months of life makes an infant feel connected and understood and stimulates an infant’s brain. One study…
6 Steps of This Walking Plan for Diabetes
Walking is one of the easiest, low-impact exercises you can do. An exercise walking plan can help you get fit, feel more energized and reach fitness goals. Experts, including our…
Good-for-You Smoothies
Good-for-You Smoothies Juice-bar smoothies are big calorie and carbohydrate bombs, which can be a problem for people with diabetes. That's why we asked Jackie Mills, MS, RD, author of 1,000 Diabetes…
What Your Job Can Do to Your Heart
The funny thing about your heart not being in your job is that your job finds a way to affect your heart anyway. When researchers looked at men who felt…
Hot Yoga: Healing or Hazardous?
Summer might be wrapping up, but where I live, the heat is still in full force. So it's hard to imagine choosing to spend my yoga class in a hot…
Six-Meal Diversity Deal
Are you still stuck in the three-meals-a-day mindset? You're not alone. Many people get hung up on the misconception that eating anything beyond their allotted three meals per day constitutes…
When Calories Do—and Don’t—Count
Americans have a love-hate affair with calories. At any given moment, more than 4 out of 10 of us say we're on a diet, yet we are gobbling 300 calories…
Can the Right Diet Help With ADHD Management?
Have you ever wondered whether certain foods might actually cause challenges in your ADHD management? If so, you're not alone. In fact, scientists also are curious about this and have…
This Nut Has Fewer Calories Than You Think
Even though nuts are brimming with excellent nutrition, sometimes you shy away because of the calories. But here's a nut that may have fewer calories than you think: pistachios. A…
Covid: Pakistan bans travellers from 12 countries as cases surge
Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority has restricted the entry of travellers from 12 countries as the third wave of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic hit the country.The authority issued a revised list…
Benefits of Eating Raw
It’s wonderful to be on Day 7 of my year of eating raw. I think I’m past the initial detox phase, and I’m flowing nicely into the beneficial part of…
Beginning a Year of Raw Foods
For the first time ever, I’m doing back-to-back one-year challenges. Yesterday I completed my one-year daily blogging challenge (and wrote a retrospective of the experience on the final day). Today…
