Nutrition Facts & Tips to Improve your Living

Nutrition

Are Maggots In Your Mushrooms? 10 Unsettling Food Facts

By Adam Bible; April 4, 2025

There’s plenty of food out there that folks find disgusting or off-putting, especially if it’s something alien to your culture’s cuisine. Haggis — sheep parts...

Nutrition

Is A2 Milk Better for You Than Regular Cow’s Milk?

By Michael Martin; March 31, 2025

Once upon a time, milk came in three options: Whole, low-fat and skim. Maybe chocolate, if you were lucky. Now, there are seemingly as many...

Nutrition

Sneak More Nutrients Into Your Meals With Flaxseed

By Eric Alt; March 24, 2025

By the way it’s so casually offered up as a cure-all for everything from high cholesterol to dry eyes, flax may seem like some kind...

Weight Loss

Can Eating Grapefruit Before Every Meal Actually Help You Lose Weight?

By Brittany Risher Englert; March 20, 2025

Like clothing and hairstyle trends, fad diets come and go, only to return in slightly new variations years later. Perhaps one of the best-known diets...

Nutrition

How Honey Can Support Immunity, Plus 3 Other Benefits

By Trinh Le, R.D.; March 20, 2025

Honey is a sweet, thick substance made by honeybees. Not only is it used as a natural sweetener, but it also has a longstanding history...

Nutrition

What Are Fatty Acids and Why Do You Need Them?

By Kelsey Ogletree; March 17, 2025

As more informed consumers, we’ve come a long way since the anti-fat rhetoric that pervaded the nutrition space for a few years. We now know...

Nutrition

See What 100 Calories of Different Nuts Looks Like

By Kirsten Morningstar; February 21, 2025

A handful of nuts is one of the healthiest and most convenient grab-and go snacks. They can be easily pre-portioned into 100-calorie snackable servings, tossed...

Nutrition

The Bountiful Benefits of Bilberry

By Toshi Jones; February 20, 2025

There’s no way around it: Berries are good for you. So good, in fact, that their potential benefits have been captured in supplement form. Now,...

Nutrition

Is Krill Oil Better Than Fish Oil? Here Are the Key Differences

By Michael Martin; February 14, 2025

Healthy oils. Good fats. Years ago, those were oxymorons. Now we know that the natural compounds in some oils and fats — like omega-3 fatty...

Nutrition

Is a Low-FODMAP Diet the Answer for Your Digestive Issues?

By Kara Wahlgren; February 11, 2025

If you’ve experienced ongoing digestive issues, you know certain foods can wreak havoc on your gut and cause all sorts of unpleasant symptoms — like...

Nutrition

How (and Why) You Should Cook With Coconut Oil

By Nicole McDermott; February 6, 2025

Coconut oil is rich, nutty, and slightly sweet, and, though high in saturated fat, it can be healthy in moderation. It’s mostly used as a...

Nutrition

Does It Matter When You Consume Protein? The Anabolic Window Theory Says Yes

By Jenessa Connor, CPT; January 6, 2025

No one argues that what you eat plays a crucial role in your overall fitness, body composition, and athletic performance. To build your muscles, you need to be...

Nutrition

7 Facts About Valentine’s Day Chocolates

By Paige Smith; January 6, 2025

Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to enjoy one of the most universally beloved sweets: chocolate. If you’re being mindful of your diet, you don’t...

Nutrition

Is It Possible to Have Too Much Protein?

By Michael Martin; December 18, 2024

Protein is one of the essential building blocks of the human body, crucial for building and repairing muscle. If you’re interested in gaining muscle and/or...

Nutrition

5 Foods Most Likely to Spike Blood Sugar

By Jordan Burchette; December 10, 2024

For people concerned about blood sugar spikes, simply eating can feel like trying to defuse a bomb: Make the wrong food choice and serum glucose...

Nutrition

Can Some Foods Lower Blood Sugar?

By Nicole McDermott and Jordan Burchette; December 5, 2024

If you’re trying to keep your blood glucose within a healthy range, you may be wondering which foods are best. Short answer: There are no...

Nutrition

What Are Blood Sugar Spikes and Why Are They Bad?

By Michael Martin; December 2, 2024

If you’ve ever experienced a quick surge and subsequent crash after consuming sugary foods, you have a basic understanding of glucose spikes. But the acute...

Nutrition

What Should You Eat During a Hard Endurance Event?

By Denis Faye, M.S.; November 26, 2024

One of the perks of being a serious endurance athlete is that you can pork out with impunity. All of that training burns major calories,...