How to Have a Healthy Lemonade Stand
The weather is getting warmer outside (hooray!) and one of the most ubiquitous sights in the spring time is the lemonade stand. As soon as it gets warm, my kids want to set up a card table at the foot...
View ArticleHealthy Easter Basket Stuffers for All Ages
By Jessie Gorges and Kelsey Murray Forget the Peeps and chocolate bunnies; get your children, significant other and family members something healthy this year for Easter. According to Dr. Kavey on...
View ArticleDiet Drinks Not a Diabetes Risk After All
Another victory for proponents of moderation: A recent Harvard study has countered the assertion that diet soda and other artificially sweetened drinks can heighten one’s risk for developing diabetes....
View ArticleA Simple and Effective Diet Plan For Diabetics
This guest post comes from Gale Tern, author, alternative health proponent, and blogger at Arthritis Pain Central. According to the National Diabetes Fact Sheet, approximately 8% of the U.S....
View ArticleNew Added Sugar Recommendations are Finally Created
By Emily Fonnesbeck RD, CD, nutritionist for the Biggest Loser Resort. The American Heart Association has released new recommendations for added sugar consumption. This is actually the first time a...
View ArticleWe Love Neuro Drinks
Water is boring. Why drink flavorless H20 when your tongue can be excited by bubbles or, well, flavor? Unfortunately, with that flavor everyone craves usually comes a lot of excess calories and sugars,...
View ArticleTeen Soda Consumption is Down
There’s potentially good news in regards to teens and their soda consumption. In 2010, 24 percent of teens in the U.S. drank at least one soda on a daily basis, which was down from 29 percent the...
View ArticleKFC’s Sugary Soda Sales Go to Support Diabetes Research
Those of us fighting the good fight against unhealthy diets, obesity, and the ailments they cause did a big palm-to-face smack this week. A KFC franchise in Utah launched a promotional fundraiser to...
View Article7 Good Reasons to Give Up Sugar
By Diana Herrington for Care2.com OK. I admit it. I’m a little intense about the subject of sugar. As a child I was practically raised on white sugar and feel that it had a part in my many health...
View ArticleFruits with the Least and Most Amount of Sugar
By Megan Zehnder for Care2.com Fruit is no-doubt an important part of our diet. Full of fiber, antioxidants and other phytochemicals, fresh fruit is a great source of sustainable energy. Unlike foods...
View ArticleCure Your Sweet Tooth in 3 Days on Rachael Ray
Are you addicted to sugar? Do you crave sweets all day? Is it hard for you to eat a meal and skip dessert? Tune in to the Rachael Ray show on Thursday, July 21 to find out how you can cure your sweet...
View ArticleDried Fruit Might Fill Nutritional Gap, At a High Caloric Cost
Raisins seem like a pretty innocent food. They don’t contain added sugars, artificial preservatives or unnatural food colorings. But should they be considered as good as grapes? According to the 2010...
View ArticleNutella Still Claiming They are a Healthy Breakfast Choice
The commercial seems innocent – a mom, trying to do the right thing for her family. She’s looking for a healthy breakfast choice, one that her kids will eat. She opens the pantry and pulls out a jar of...
View ArticleFour Lessons We Learned from Dr. Hoebel
Renowned Princeton physiological psychologist and researcher Bart Hoebel has died at the age of 76. He was a leader in research on eating behaviors and the addictive qualities of food. He seems to have...
View ArticleSugar Consumption Decreases as Americans Drink Less Soda
Maybe it was the recession or maybe the public started listening to the health professionals’ pleas, but either way, added sugar consumption has actually decreased in the United States. Research has...
View ArticleHow Much is Too Much Sugar?
By Melissa Breyer for Care2.com The federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggest an upper limit of 25 percent of daily calories come from added sugar. Doesn’t that seem really high? If you have an...
View Article5 Foods That Will Help You Snooze
By Lise Turner for Care2.com It has been a sleepless several nights for me, mainly because of troubling events. But it made me start thinking about food, and how it’s intimately connected to our...
View ArticleEat More Honey for National Honey Month
This month is National Honey Month and it just so happens that this week, we’re all about honey. Between the Jewish New Year, which includes a tradition of dipping apples in honey for a “sweet” New...
View ArticleCoconut Sugar is a Nutritionally Superior Natural Sweetener
By Abra Pappa for NutritiousAmerica.com Seems like there is a hot, new “healthy sweetener” on the market every 10 minutes and as soon as you are convinced that this is the ONE, new reports come out...
View ArticleSoda vs Marijuana – Which Do You Think is Worse?
There’s a chart that has been floating around the Internet for a while comparing various health effects of soda and marijuana. The agenda doesn’t appear to be pro-pot as much as it is pointing out...
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