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How to Prevent Foodborne Illnesses
This spring, five people died after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli. The CDC recently announced that 90 people have gotten salmonella from raw turkey meat. Goldfish and Ritz crackers were just voluntarily recalled due to possible salmonella presence....
Is Juicing as Great as it Seems?
Juicing is all the rage lately. It seems to be a quick and easy way to get all of your servings of fruits in vegetables in one sitting. Joe Cross made a documentary about his extreme weight loss as a result of juicing. But is juicing as healthy as it seems? Juicing...
Gut Health – What Is It and Why Should You Care
Your gastrointestinal tract is lined with a microbiome, which contains bacteria, fungi and even viruses. It sounds gross, but gut bacteria is essential for your body to function correctly. There should always be a mix between good and bad bacteria in your gut, but...
How to Stay Healthy as a Vegetarian
Vegetarians are some of the healthiest people on the planet - or so popular opinion would have you believe. Humor me for a moment; what do you picture when you hear the term? Do you think of a willowy runner who wrinkles her nose at the Philly cheesesteak sitting on...
Why Fad Diet Plans Fail
Regardless of their flavors and recipes, all fad diet programs package hope into books, pill bottles, and neatly-printed meal plans. Weight loss is a $66 billion industry in the United States, and its companies know how to spin inspiration into leads. Their marketing...
How Healthy is Your Meal Subscription?
Meal subscription services are all the rage - and why wouldn't they be? These pay-by-week packages offer clients the opportunity and tools to prepare dishes that wouldn't look out of place on a upscale restaurant's menu in the relaxation of their own kitchens. Many...
Eating Healthy on a Walmart Budget
Food is expensive. As kids, we don't quite grasp the value of a $1.50 candy bar in the checkout line or the cost of a tiny container of out-of-season raspberries in the produce section. As we grow up, though, we begin to realize that the question our parents faced...
How to Build an Effective Meal Plan
Prepping a week's worth of meals all at once is intimidating. Endless menu options and budget restrictions inevitably conflict, leaving you wondering if you'll ever be able to pull together a weekly food rotation that isn't either boring and repetitive or costly and...
Tips for Avoiding the Holiday Bloat
Admit it, you eat a few more cookies during the holiday season than you should. The winter season is chock-full of opportunities to indulge - and by all rights, you should! Family food extravaganzas only come around a few times every year, and you should take full...
5 Healthy Eating Hacks
Opportunities for nutritional misdeeds are everywhere. It seems as though there’s always just one last Twix in the candy bowl or an extra bag of Cheetos in the vending machine at the gym. After all, you figure as you scarf down the entire bag of M&M’s you were planning on rationing out over the next month, you go to the gym enough to make a few diet cheats worth it, right?