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Slow Food Takes Root: Global Movement on Fast Track

Sep 30, 2019 09:30AM

Slow Food activists focus on food that is “good, clean and fair”—which also tends to be food that is local, healthy and sustainable.

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Ayurvedic Cooking: Ancient System Restores Balance

Aug 30, 2019 09:30AM

Ayurveda works to rebalance health in coordination with mind-body energy. An Ayurvedic diet can address imbalances and optimize health and well-being. Start with these simple recipes.

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Wild and Wonderful: Foraging for Foodies

Aug 16, 2019 12:11AM ● By April Thompson

There is such a thing as a free lunch! We have only to look in our backyards and parks to find the free, nutritious greens and berries an arm’s reach away.

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Recipes A Heart Will Love: Tasty Ways to Boost Heart Health

Jan 31, 2019 12:27PM ● By Avery Mack

Low-fat, plant-based recipes make for a heart-healthy meal so delicious that non-vegetarians won’t even miss the meat.

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Organic Farmers: Growing America’s Health: Restoring the Nutritional Value of Crops

Jun 29, 2018 12:28PM ● By Melinda Hemmelgarn

Across the country, farmers are experimenting with new ways to grow food having higher nutritional content and a positive environmental impact.

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10 Anti-Inflammatory Foods: Flavorful Ways to Lower Disease Risk

Jun 29, 2018 12:01PM ● By Rachael Oppy

When inflammation becomes a chronic condition—a common state today—certain foods can lower its disease-causing potential.

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Eat Right to Sleep Well: 10 Foods Help Us Relax and Rest

May 31, 2018 11:43AM ● By Judith Fertig

Rather than popping a pill, eating certain foods can kick-start hormones that help us get a long, deep night’s sleep.

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The World’s Healthiest Cuisines: What Five Countries Can Teach Us about Good Eating

Feb 28, 2018 12:10PM ● By Judith Fertig

Step aside, pizza and chop suey! These five authentic ethnic cuisines offer the real thing— traditional food that’s healthy, tasty and easy to prepare in our own kitchen.

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Fearless Eating

Feb 28, 2017 08:58PM

How to Move Past Food Sensitivities by Kathleen Barnes Complaints of digestive upsets, brain fog, headaches, relentless food cravings and un...

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Indoor Kitchen Gardening: Easy-Grow Microgreens Are Big on Nutrition

Jan 31, 2017 12:46PM ● By Barbara Pleasant

Alfalfa, wheat, popcorn, radishes, red cabbage, snow peas and more can be grown in soil in tiny kitchen containers, producing quick harvests of tasty nutrients.

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Locavore Lingo

Jun 30, 2016 10:58PM

What All the Food Labels Really Mean Judith Fertig &amp;lt;img src="/images/cache/cache_9/cache_5/cache_8/Reading-Food-Labels-0ca0...

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Fast Whole-Food Munchies

Jun 01, 2016 02:17PM

Tasty Homemade Alternatives to Junk Food Judith Fertig photo courtesy of Ella Leché/Andrews McMeel Publishing Planning ahead is an effect...

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Scientists Urge Ban on Non-Stick Pan Coatings: Cookware Chemicals Extremely Dangerous to Health

Dec 29, 2015 05:23PM

Citing research links to liver, nerve and heart disorders, more than 200 scientists have called for a halt to the production of the chemicals used to coat non-stick cookware.

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Surf to Turf: U.S. Farmed Seafood That’s Safe and Sustainable

Sep 13, 2015 02:12PM

JUDITH FERTIGWild-caught fish from pure waters is the gold standard of seafood, but sustainable populations from healthy waters are shrinkin...

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Lower Breast Cancer Risk by Eating Colorful Veggies

Oct 01, 2014 11:07AM

Cut Your Risk in Half Research published in the British Journal of Nutrition discovered that the risk of breast cancer decreases with incre...

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