Diet-foods

Up to three quarters of elderly people in parts of India have vitamin C deficiency, a study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found. Vitamin C is an essential nutrient for human health, playing a role from maintenance and repair of tissues to antioxidant activities.

Americans’ health report card is out, and there’s plenty of room for improvement. That’s especially true if you live in Mississippi and less true if you call Vermont home

Mom’s lasagna. Homemade chocolate chip cookies straight from the oven. Steak sizzling on the grill. Roasted turkey and stuffing. Flame-broiled hamburgers. Good-quality dark chocolate.

Is your mouth watering at the very thought of some of these foods? Sorry to break it to you, but a recent study found that humans are not able to salivate at the thought of food.

Ever since the dawn of humanity, people have wondered about the purpose of dreams. We’ve imbued these mental meanderings with all sorts of powers, from forecasting the future to providing a window into the soul.

“You are what you eat.” The old adage has for decades weighed on the minds of consumers who fret over responsible food choices. Yet what if it was literally true? What if material from our food actually made its way into the innermost control centers of our cells, taking charge of fundamental gene expression?

Many American teenagers may be eating fewer fruits and vegetables each day than nationwide guidelines recommend for this age group, a CDC report suggests.

With plenty of cash to hire personal trainers and private chefs, Hollywood’s hottest have all the tools in place for perfect health. But if you judge celebrities’ fitness only by BMI, or body mass index, the numbers tell a different story.

Stomach acid has long been blamed for acid reflux, heartburn and other ills. But now some experts are starting to think that the problems may lie not just in the acid coming up from the stomach but in the food going down.

A new national study of eating out and income shows that fast-food dining becomes more common as earnings increase from low to middle incomes, weakening the popular notion that fast food should be blamed for higher rates of obesity among the poor.

Many people indulge far too often in trans-fat-heavy foods because it makes them feel good, even though they know these foods may not be good for their hearts and their waistlines.

But while that double cheeseburger or glazed doughnut might temporarily improve your mood, research from Spain suggests the feeling won’t last.

Under pressure at work? Though exercise generally does improve productivity, long workouts might not do much if you’re dealing with extreme stress, finds a new study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Our self-images are bound with the products we buy, the money we possess and, I now gather, the portions of food we eat.

Studies suggest vitamin D may go beyond its well-established role in bone health and reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and more.

What makes vitamin D unique is that it is a vitamin and also a hormone your body can make from the sun. Despite the ability to get vitamin D from food and the sun, an estimated 40%-75% of people are deficien

Obese teens who want to lose weight may not be going about it in the most healthy or effective ways, according to new research.

Being overweight as a teenager carries a greater risk of being an overweight adult, along with an increased risk of dying of heart disease. But overweight adolescents who slim down in middle age may lower their risk, a new study shows. Previous studies have linked being overweight as a teenager [...]

Dinner for one can be a conundrum. If you never know when you’re going to be home it’s difficult to plan. If you’ve been cooking for a family for years and now your children are out of the house, you may be flummoxed by the idea of preparing a meal for just one person. Or say you’re divorced, and some nights your children are with their other parent. How do you plan a dinner for yourself?

This year, make healthy, fall produce the real star at your Thanksgiving table.

Got apples? Here’s how to put all that local fruit to amazing use. Check out these five amazing fall recipes!

This stew recipe will keep for five days in the refrigerator and is best eaten a day after it is made. Add the basil just before serving.

Learn how to cook brown rice for a macrobiotic diet in this free how-to video on a macrobiotics diet and cooking recipes.

As the years pass by, many women find that the lifestyle that worked out in their 20s and 30s fails to achieve the same results in their 40s and 50s. Many women ask: "What am I doing wrong?" As women reach their 50s (the average age of onset for menopause), [...]

It’s true to say that most people don’t know what a healthy portion of food should look like. Find out what a healthy portion looks like.

When the temperatures drop and the days get shorter, nothing hits the spot like a bowl of warm soup

This butternut squash soup recipe is a delicious treat to serve on a cold day.

Boost your daily nutrition intake by preparing and enjoying a fresh salad packed with greens and protein.

In America, obesity rates are decreasing slightly across most demographic groups, unlike the last two years.

Denmark has imposed a “fat tax” on foods such as butter and oil as a way to curb unhealthy eating habits.

All the talk by nutritionists and newspapers about the benefits of ‘berry good for you’ antioxidants seems to have paid off. Berries have overtaken the apple as the nations favorite fruit based on sales.

Hi, Dr. Melina. I read your response to a question a few weeks ago, and I don’t think I have an eating disorder, but I feel like I’m addicted to food. Is there anything that I can do? I’m desperate to lose weight.

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A slice of pizza once in a while won’t do you any harm. What’s important is a person’s average food intake over a few days, not just in a single meal. So if you eat a less-than-healthy meal once in a while, try to balance it with healthier foods the rest of that day and week.

Roasting or grilling asparagus concentrates the sweet, green-ness of the vegetable and adds a crispy, caramelized crunch that makes it irresistible.

If you combine whole grains, eggs, yogurt, milk, and fruit what do you get? Breakfast!

Eating white fruits and vegetables may help reduce risk of stroke, a new observational study in the journal Stroke suggests.

In August the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reopened the comment period for the proposed rule on the term gluten-free on food labels. This extension is your last chance to comment before the rule is adopted.

That is the conclusion reached by Dr. Kevin D. Hall and his colleagues at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Recently they created a more realistic model of how the body responds to changes in caloric intake and expenditure, basing their calculations on how people of different weights responded to caloric changes in a controlled setting like a metabolic unit.
Their work, spelled out in a new study published in The Lancet, explains how body weight can slowly rise even when people have not changed their eating and exercise habits.
Their research also helps to explain why some people can lose weight faster than others, even when all are eating the same foods and doing the same exercise, and why achieving permanent weight loss is so challenging for so many.
The model shows that lasting weight loss takes a long time to achieve and suggests that more effective weight loss programs might be undertaken in two phases: a temporary, more aggressive change in behavior at first, followed by a second phase of a more relaxed but permanent behavioral change that can prevent the weight regain that afflicts so many dieters despite their best intentions.

What should we eat? Answers abound in the media, all of which rely on their interpretation of recent medical literature to come up with recommendations for the healthiest diet. But what if you could answer this question at a molecular level — that’s precisely what some biologists have done.

Luckily, making meals at home provides the freedom to change recipes and substitute ingredients. Use these healthy recipe substitutions to keep your home-cooked meals (and home-baked desserts!) good for the body and soul.

Research by the University of Liverpool has found that intervention policies that promote healthy eating could cut the death rate for cardiovascular disease (CVD) by up to 50%.

Spending time in front of the television is linked to an increased consumption of unhealthy snacks and drinks according to a recent review by Loughborough University experts.

Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide quest to find diets that are both delicious and healthy. Written in a style reminiscent of Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, The Jungle Effect is filled with inspiring stories from Dr. Miller’s patients, quirky travel adventures, interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic) indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you for a lifetime.

One of my favorite things to eat is chocolate. As a diabetic, I set out to find if eating chocolate was a treat I needed to give up. Not only did I look into it, but I was very surprised at what I found.

You are pouring dressing over your salad and happen to flip over the bottle and find Xanthan Gum on the nutrition label and facts. What is it?

Consumers could soon see packages of pasta labeled “good source of dietary fiber” and “may reduce the risk of heart disease” thanks to the development of a new genre of pasta made with barley – a grain famous for giving beer its characteristic strength and flavor.

Speed up your metabolism JUST by eating the foods that burn calories while they digest! Find out what these super foods are and great ways to eat them.

With so much information available, sometimes random or outdated statements end up as common knowledge. Often, these “facts” don’t support optimal health and can even be harmful.

Save money and eat healthy foods as the same time.

Skip the midnight pizza run and try some of these healthy—and fast—dorm-friendly dishes.

Here’s how to grill a pizza and make it with fresh mozzarella. Try it you will absolutely love it.

To blast belly fat, eat carb-heavy foods before noon. This way you have all day to burn those calories. Start your day off with this deliciously nutritious noodle pudding.

What could be simpler than sautéed mushrooms? Not only is this sautéed mushroom recipe easy, it adds tons of flavour to any meal. Serve on top of chicken, beef or pork, add to pasta dishes, soups or salads, or simply serve it as a side.

Some of your favorite diet foods — turkey burgers, granola, yogurt, and more — are shockingly high in calories and fat. Here’s how to recognize 10 common fat traps.

Join Natasha on her raw food weight loss journey! Today Natasha show you how to make an incredible superfood raw cacao dessert recipe.

With the popularity of swanky nightclubs like The Edison and the Cicada Club retro is big in Los Angeles. But, while art, architecture, fashion and nightlife inspired by the past may be a “do” — I’m going to say that doowop-era fad diets are a don’t. Specifically, I’m talking about one lousy idea born in the 1950s that keeps coming back into fashion: the HCG diet.

Not all trans fats are created equal and it’s time for nutritional labels to reflect that reality, says a University of Alberta nutrition expert.

Try these healthy breakfast recipes to save money and lose weight! Bring these breakfast foods to work or school.

Daily work-related energy expenditure over the last half-century in the U.S. has decreased by over 100 calories. This may well explain the increase in body weights we’ve seen, according to a 2011 article.

Eating poorly sure is easy on the bank account — you've got instant noodles on sale for pocket change and value menus at fast food joints offering tacos and burgers for a buck or two. But eating like this could put your health at a deficit. The good news is [...]

Listening to some foodie types, you would think that anything that has been remotely industrially processed was as deadly as nerve poison. Yet even food snobs eat plenty of processed food. It’s just the right kind of processed food.

   Another showed that the Portfolio Diet is superior to a low-fat diet at lowering serum lipids. But then again, very low-fat, plant-based diets have been shown to cause regression of atherosclerotic plaque, to prevent cardiac events and to modify gene expression in a manner that should lower cancer risk. [...]

A study has found that eating together as a family may encourage children to be more open to trying new types of food.

A calorie is a calorie, no matter how you eat it, right? That was the thinking, but the thinking is changing

In this video, Stacey talks about fats and why the body needs fat and how the average American diet of refined sugars and grains is actually worse for health and for weight loss. Refined foods are empty calories that contain no real nutrition and are quickly turned to fat in the body.

Vegetables are often relegated to the side of the plate, but in the latest Recipes for Health series, Martha Rose Shulman shows how stuffed vegetables can make the meal. She writes: Travel anywhere in the Mediterranean region, and you will find stuffed vegetables. In Provence, they tend to be filled [...]

The risk of breast cancer dropped significantly in mice when their regular diet included a modest amount of walnut, according to a new study out.

Your brain represents just 2% of your body weight, but demands 20% of your resting metabolism. Learn how to feed it properly!

Cooking Vegetables: Stir-frying for best nutritional value of vegetables, cooking vegetables in soups for vegetable nutrition

“You are what you eat” is familiar enough, but how deep do the implications go? An interdisciplinary group of investigators has found an association between long-term dietary patterns and the bacteria of the human gut.

Join me and I’ll show you how to make a fast, easy, delicious, raw food soup recipe using a blender.

Scientists are reporting new evidence that a century-old food preservation technology more than doubles the levels of certain healthful natural antioxidants in fruit.

Losing weight without a grumbling stomach or expensive liquid diet can be as simple as eating a lighter lunch, finds a new Cornell University study to be published in the October issue of the journal Appetite. Participants who ate portion-controlled lunches did not compensate by eating more calories later in [...]

You might not consider flavor as being a key player in prevention of disease or promotion of health. However, your perception of flavors contributes greatly to your acceptance and general liking of foods.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have created a mathematical model — and an accompanying online weight simulation tool — of what happens when people of varying weights, diets and exercise habits try to change their weight.

Make this quick and healthy chicken salad recipe with just 5 ingredients – Avocado, celery, onion, Greek yogurt and Chicken!

The problem of obesity is spreading around the world and poses serious health threats.  The finding is part of a new special report on obesity, and how to combat it in the medical journal the Lancet.   The editor, Dr. Richard Horton, calls obesity a pandemic, and said it is one [...]

Researchers in Canada have shown that a special cholesterol-lowering diet works well – even with only two nutritional counseling sessions over six months. Making dietary changes like eating oat bran for breakfast, drinking soy milk instead of dairy, soy burgers in place of hamburgers, and fruit and nuts instead of [...]

Rising rates of obesity have taken their toll, reaching epidemic proportions in the West. Planet 100 counts down the top five superfoods for a super healthy diet.

Are you looking to add more organic foods to your diet, but are concerned that the additional costs will increase your grocery bill by epic proportions?

Older adults who lead sedentary lifestyles and consume a lot of sodium in their diet may be putting themselves at risk for more than just heart disease.

Veggie Burgers are a nutritional alternative to beef burgers. Many people don’t think of making their own veggie burgers but they are really easy to make at home. Store bought veggie burgers are nutritional but often very high in sodium and preservatives.

According to a new study, more intake of nuts (as well as whole grain and low-fat dairy) and less intake of meat can reduce diabetes risk by as much as 35 percent.

Cooking with kale provides plenty of bone healthy nutrients like calcium, manganese, vitamins C & K.

Tired of the same old snacks? Try this delicious recipe!

All Superfoods have sidekicks! If you don’t like apples, then you can have a pear! Find out what makes apples so amazing from Dr. Pratt.

Here’s a round-up of recent questions about nutrition (and the answers).

College students aren’t eating enough fruits and vegetables — in fact, a new study shows students aren’t even eating one serving per day, far from the recommended five daily servings.

Good health is just a matter of taking a new approach to eating and making simple changes. Check out the How-To.

As women reach their 50s (the average age of onset for menopause), they have to compensate for hormonal, cardiovascular and muscle changes that may have not been prevalent in their younger years.

These days, there is a lot of talk about health benefits from drinking teas, such as green, black, and oolong. But there is little clinical evidence on the effects of drinking these teas.

Eating a diet rich in spices, like turmeric and cinnamon, reduces the body’s negative responses to eating high-fat meals, according to Penn State researchers.

Bad habits are made to be broken. Learn easy tricks to help you eat better every day.

A short machinima showcasing an educational game about Nutrition. The game emphasizes the effects that fast food has on health. It exists inside the online virtual world of Second Life.

  U.S. obesity rates are on the rise as 36 states saw a 25 percent increase over the last year, reports a 2010 survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These startling obesity numbers show no signs of slowing down, making it crucial to understand why it's [...]

Are eggs healthy or are they a high-cholesterol trap? The answer depends on what the hen eats, says a Tel Aviv University researcher.

People who live to 95 or older are no more virtuous than the rest of us in terms of their diet, exercise routine or smoking and drinking habits, according to researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

When dieters cut calories, starving brain cells fight back, new study shows

Summer tomatoes are at their peek right now at all the farmer’s markets in Baltimore! Dr. Oz says that ginger helps keep your metabolism burning about 35% longer, or about 3 hours!

It’s hard to eat just one potato chip, and a new study may explain why.

A new study finds that people who chew their food more take in fewer calories, which may help them control their weight.

A new study has again confirmed that fish is heart-healthy. So what’s new about that? Here’s a look into the study and ways to prepare your fish.