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What Is ‘Fiber Training’—And Why Should You Be Doing It?
What exactly is ‘fiber training’?Fiber training is exactly what it sounds like: training your body to handle fiber better. It’s...
Food / Nutrition
6 Supplements Doctors Actually Take
These days, it seems like everyone is taking a supplement—to look better, think better, sleep better, relax better, poop better,...
7 Foods That’ll Speed Up Muscle Recovery After a Hard Workout, According to Fitness Experts
Even though working out is good for you, it can sometimes leave you feeling pretty bad. Intense muscle pain, stiffness,...
7 Reasons Why You Might Feel Hungry Even After Eating
Your appetite rests on a simple set of principles: When you’re hungry, you eat, and when you eat, you become...
How to Lower Inflammation With 5 Simple Changes to Your Morning Routine
Adding them to your breakfast is simple: Toss a handful of blueberries or raspberries onto your oatmeal or yogurt, mix...
Popular Pre-Workout Supplements Could Be Wrecking Your Sleep
“Caffeine typically blocks adenosine receptors, which is a neurotransmitter that builds through the day to increase sleep pressure by the...
Not Everyone Gets the Same Amount of Calories From Food. Here’s Why.
To most people, calories are the North Star of nutrition: a rigid quantity assigned to each and every food that...
What Helps After a Week of Stress-Eating
Finally, Tsui notes, psychological factors could also affect how your body responds to stress-eating. Depending on how much you’ve internalized...
What Is the 30-30-3 Method, and How Does It Affect Mood, Energy, and Digestion?
Social media algorithms love challenges with a number. I, for one, can’t get enough of the viral 12-3-30 treadmill workout...
Soluble Fiber vs. Insoluble Fiber: What’s the Difference?
Most people are well aware that fiber is a nutrient we want to eat enough of. Fewer know that there...
Low on Vitamin D Right Now? Your Calcium Could Be Down Too
Here in the northern hemisphere, winter famously contributes to widespread vitamin D deficiency as sunlight exposure decreases. The trend is...
Two Soup Ingredients That’ll Boost Your Immunity
As a dietitian, one of my favorite things about my job is showing people that supporting their health doesn’t have...
Is The Green-Mediterranean Diet Even Healthier Than the Original?
Few diets have earned the gold star for health quite like the Mediterranean diet, an eating style that emphasizes plant...
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What Is ‘Stacked Water’—and Is It Really Better Than the Regular Thing?
For such a simple, unassuming beverage, water is bizarrely popular on social media. If you’ve ever been bored to tears...
The Best Nutrients for Bone Health—Here’s What All Women Should Know
When you think about building strong bones, an image of someone sipping on a tall glass of milk might come...
How to Heal Your Gut Microbiome
Deep within your GI tract, there lives an active community of microorganisms known as your “gut microbiome.” Despite their small...
Monk Fruit is the Superfood You’re Probably Not Eating
You probably reach for something like an apple or banana when you’re craving natural sweetness. But scientists just laid out...
I’m an RD—Here Are 4 Steps I Recommend Before Starting a GLP-1
Starting the day with protein has additional benefits, like helping to keep blood sugar levels steady, promoting a feeling of...
I’m a Dietitian Taking a GLP-1. These Are My Go-To Simple Meals
Friday tradition: Every Friday, without fail, I get a Dunkin’ Donuts egg and cheese on an everything bagel with an...
The New Dietary Guidelines Are Stressing Me Out as a Working Mom of 4
I’m already stressed that I’m not doing enough as a mom—I’m not present enough, I work too much, I forgot...
Here’s How to Increase Your Vitamin D Levels in Winter
On the other end of the food spectrum, certain mushroom varieties are also a good source of vitamin D (PSA...
The 4 Reasons You Get Sugar Cravings, According to Experts
Sometimes (or, um, many times), your body decides it wants a bag of Sour Patch Kids or a chocolate bar,...
10 High-Protein Vegetables to Try If You Just Can’t Take Any More Beans
Veggies have many all-star nutrients—fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, to name a few—but protein isn’t typically considered one of them....
How to Fix Gut Microbiome: Stop Making These Mistakes
Your gut microbiome has an almost unlimited significance in your body. Simply put, it’s the massive community of bacteria, fungi,...
The Best Fermented Foods to Boost Your Gut Health
Chances are, you’ve been sleeping on fermented foods for most of your life. Here in the US, they’re “not a...
Best Foods for Sleep: Kiwis, Walnuts, and More
The temperature of warm milk—while not scientifically proven to help with sleep—can have a soothing psychological effect. It may be...
3 Signs You‘re Eating Too Much Fiber (That Aren’t Just Going to the Bathroom)
If you’ve spent time on social media lately, you may have noticed a new trend making the rounds: fibermaxxing. Put...
