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Try This Healthy Makeover for a Favorite Fast Food

Take-out pizza is the ultimate fast food -- gooey cheese, salty sauce, fatty pepperoni, all baked on top of what's basically white bread. But there's no need to feel guilty about enjoying a hot slice once you've mastered a nutritious and delicious pizza makeover, courtesy experts at Health Day.  Adding just a few ingredients to your weekly shopping list can actually take less time than a trip to the drive-thru, […]

todayMay 3, 2019

Food & Drink

Spring Ahead With Spring Vegetables

Celebrate spring with farm-fresh foods that usher in the season. They're low in calories, have fresh flavor and are the perfect way to energize for warmer weather.  Enjoying vegetables and fruits during their peak season has many benefits. Seasonal produce: Has more nutrients because it often doesn’t have to be transported as far (produce begins losing nutrients as soon as it’s harvested). Is better for the environment because it travels […]

todayMay 2, 2019

Food & Drink

Knives: Essential Equipment for Healthy Food Prep

Every home chef will find that cooking healthfully is easier with a well-made set of knives. When shopping, let quality, not quantity, be your guide.  You can master most any cutting task with just three knives: the chef's, serrated and paring.   Chef's Knife.  The workhorse is the chef's knife, about eight to 10 inches long. It's the all-purpose knife you'll use every day for chopping, slicing and dicing.   […]

todayMay 1, 2019

Food & Drink

113,000 Pounds of Ground Beef Recalled Due to E. Coli

If you have any ground beef in your fridge or freezer, you might want to double check before you incorporate it into your dinner for the night: k2D Foods, a Georgia-based company operating under the name Colorado Premium Foods, has recalled around 113,000 pounds of ground beef due to concerns of E. coli contamination.   According to an official statement, the company has recalled packages of its 24-ounce vacuum-packed "ground […]

todayApril 30, 2019

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Beauty Brands Are Cashing In on Cannabis

The beauty industry’s obsession with CBD isn’t slowing down.  CBD — the shortened term for cannabidiol — has become one of the hottest ingredients around, popping up in different types of skin care, color cosmetics and wellness supplements as consumer interest in the plant’s purported benefits increases rapidly.   Beauty brands are tapping into cannabis and its many ingredient extracts, with varying levels of CBD — including hemp seed oil, […]

todayApril 25, 2019

Health & Wellness

Mindfulness Reduces Stress

If you're looking for a simple way to reduce your stress and anxiety levels, try working on the mind-body connection.   In a recent doctoral study conducted at Pennsylvania State University, Chih-Hslang Yang, PhD investigated the combination of mindfulness and moving on feelings of stress and anxiety.  The study, published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise, was conducted on almost 200 Penn State students, where Yang recorded their moods, stress […]

todayApril 24, 2019

Health & Wellness

Muscle Strength Increases Longevity

Need more motivation to stay on top of your functional strength training program? A new study finds that the older we get, the more important muscle strength becomes a factor in our continued health and well-being.   Researchers from China and Indiana University collaborated to analyze data from almost 5,000 older adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and found that older people with low muscle strength had […]

todayApril 23, 2019

Food & Drink

Celiacs Diners Beware: Your Gluten-Free could be Gluten-Full

About a year ago Jessica Mahar, who was diagnosed with celiac disease around 2005, got sick from a local restaurant because the menu said the dish was served with gluten-free brown rice, but actually was served with gluten-containing farro. Even if a restaurant menu says an item is gluten free, new research says there's a good chance some gluten will end up on your plate. Thirty-two percent of restaurant foods labeled gluten-free actually contain […]

todayApril 22, 2019

Health & Wellness

Cardio Improves Motor Skill Retention

A new study published in NeuroImage reveals that just fifteen minutes of cardio done immediately after learning or practicing a new motor skill improves long-term retention.   Researchers conducted the study to explore brain mechanisms underlying motor learning and the impact of cardiovascular exercise on motor memory consolidation.  Subjects were asked to practice a grip exercise requiring varying degrees of force.  Afterward, some participants rested, while others did 15 minutes […]

todayApril 19, 2019

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