Nutrition Articles

It’s a little premature for New Year’s Resolutions, since I typically like to save those until February, but my new life goal is to eat like a real-life grown-up.

After a recent trip to the doctor to investigate what I was convinced was a food allergy (what else can it mean when it looks like a little baby elbow is sticking out of your stomach every time you eat?), it was called to my attention...

Should you replace your sports drinks and table sugar with more “natural” sweeteners?

Agave is a natural sugar that’s gaining popularity.  Made from species of the Mexican agave cactus (also used to make tequila!), it’s considered by some a “raw food” and used as a sugar substitute as it tastes sweeter than honey, is less viscous, is vegan and kosher. Although it is less processed...

Active? Try these 5 foods to fuel your body for powerful and productive workouts.

(1) Homemade, low-fat muffins make a great pre-workout snack. Coffee shops muffins can be high in fat, slowing you down (grease stained paper bags anyone?)

(2) Beets are a rich source of antioxidants and a recent study suggested that beet juice may boost performance.

(3) Red peppers are tasty on a salad and contain...

Indulging in our guilty pleasures is a hard habit to kick. We’ve all had that craving for a bacon double cheeseburger with chili fries, or spent an evening de-stressing on the couch with a tub of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

With the start of each new year comes the promise of bettering our lives, and for many that means trimming off some excess weight. However, we so often forget that...

Portion control was a buzz word of the '00s as a solution to the supersized '90s. Research showed us that when we ate popcorn from a large bag we subconsciously ate more  than if we had eaten it out of a small bag.  And when given a plate of food, whether big or small, we would tend to eat mindlessly until it was clean. The solution thrust upon us? 100-calorie snack packs.

These...

2009 was the year of individually wrapped, ‘portion controlled’ products and sodas disguised as vitamin-enriched ‘waters’ and teas lending a false impression of health.  Will 2010 be another year of good intentions?

My predictions of the top five food trends for 2010 are all about action. We’ll see a call to eat more sustainably, an increase in scare campaigns, and a flurry of...