What Is the Healthiest Cooking Oil?
What is the healthiest cooking oil? There's an overabundance of options out there, with equally as much misinformation--canola oil, grapeseed oil, avocado oil--the list goes on. With all the confusion
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Easy Low Carb Cranberry Sauce Recipe (No Sugar Added)
You don't have to throw in the towel with healthy eating just because it's the holidays. Cranberry sauce is a classic holiday staple. It's also the most sugar-laden. That is, until
7 Tricks to Avoid Halloween Weight Gain
Intimidated about indulging a little too much at that upcoming Halloween party? Try these 7 tricks to avoid Halloween weight gain! #1 Eat a spoonful of coconut butter (aka coconut manna), nut butter,
Why Is Saturated Fat Good For You? 6 Reasons (PART TWO)
In Part One of this series, Why Is Saturated Fat Good for You?, I shared how fear of saturated fats is rooted in nutrition hype and misinformation that science doesn't
The Unexpected Superfood
Superfood. The word is all the rage these days. Superfoods hold the promise of enhanced energy and libido, anti-aging, disease-prevention, antioxidant power, increased cognitive function. The list goes on. We want superfoods.
Another Reason Your Confusion About Sugar & Starch Isn’t Your Fault (My Review of Katie Couric’s Fed Up Challenge)
I was pretty excited when I saw an interview with Katie Couric about her new documentary Fed Up (released May 9, 2014), which spotlights the dangers of sugar, particularly added
Holes in Vegan Nutrition and Ideology
I get provocative about holes in vegan nutrition and ideology in Tipsy Lit's new interview with me. I talk sex, birth, religion, fertilizer and FOOD. Oui! Check out the full article by
New Research Suggests Resveratrol Doesn’t Reduce Risk of Heart Disease or Cancer
There's been a research reversal on resveratrol! (I dare you to say that five times.) A new study out of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, published in the Journal of the American Medical
VIDEO: Why You Don’t Want to Eat a Processed Butter Substitute or Cheese Alternative
On a recent trip to my local food co-op, I came across a "healthier" processed butter substitute and cheese alternative brand that isn't all it's cracked up to be (like most
The Myth of “Healthy” Frozen Yogurt
How can you NOT think frozen yogurt is healthy?
For years now, everywhere you turn, the media seems to be singing operatic praise for this low-fat--or more often fat-free--"healthy" dessert that's supposed