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NUTRITION GUIDELINES
The Most Nutrient Dense Foods
For your health’s sake, skip snacks and fast foods with loads of calories but few nutrients. Instead, choose the most nutrient dense foods to improve your health.
How Warning Labels on Soda Could Work
Americans need to stop drinking boatloads of soda. It goes hand in hand with obesity and many related health conditions. Would labels with photos do the trick?
Is It Bad to Skip Breakfast?
Skipping breakfast puts you in a different mindset, and you let good habits slide. The main thing for everyone is to eat healthy, yet many breakfast-skippers don’t.
How to Eat Healthier: Change How You Cook
High-heat cooking unleashes chemicals that have been linked to common illnesses associated with inflammation and aging. Here’s how to eat (and cook) healthier.
Is Raw Milk Safe?
There’s no scientific reason to drink raw milk — and it can be dangerous, which is why it’s illegal to sell in many states. Here's what you should know.
What Do “Healthy” and “Natural” Mean?
The FDA has been working for years to establish better definitions of "healthy" and "natural" — common and widely inaccurate — terms on food labels.
How to Stop Food Cravings
It’s not easy to know how to stop food cravings, especially for sugary and salty foods, but learning what causes cravings is a good start. Here's what you can do.
Red Meat and the Risk of Heart Disease
For every daily serving of red meat, your risk for heart disease increases. But swapping beans, nuts, and soy foods for red meat can protect your heart.
Eating Late Is Really Bad for You
Humans are built to fast 12 hours a day. But that's not a typical American pattern. Late meals and snacks are linked to weight gain, acid reflux, and breast cancer.
Eat Good Fats Instead of Fat-Free or Low-Fat Products
Experts say that dieters shouldn’t focus on replacing all fatty foods with fat-free or low-fat choices. Instead, they recommend you look at your overall diet.
What Does a “Best By” Date Mean?
Up to 40 percent of all the food produced in the U.S. is never eaten. One reason: We throw out food because of dates stamped on packages, cans, and bottles.
“Everything in Moderation” Is Bad Diet Advice
The phrase “eat in moderation” promotes overindulgence, and people who eat junk foods are more likely to get type 2 diabetes. Here's what you should know.
Is Diet Soda Bad for You?
People who drink diet soda are more likely to develop high blood pressure, stroke, dementia, and maybe depression or cancer. The problem may be poor circulation.
What Does “Natural Flavor” Mean?
“Natural flavor” is a common and sometimes misleading food labeling term. Here’s how to make sense of the term and what you can do find healthy, natural foods.