Monitoring the glycemic impact of the foods you choose is a primary contributing factor to maintaining healthy blood sugar levels, but it’s not the only factor. Below are a few easy changes you can make to your diet and daily routine to minimize your risk of diabetes.

One of the top contributing factors for chronic inflammation is your diet. That’s good news! Understanding the foods that cause inflammation empowers you to center your meals around healthful anti-inflammatory nutrients. With consistency, your new approach to nutrition may minimize inflammation and maybe even heal your body. It’s also a proactive approach to your future health.

If your dietitian or physician has suggested increasing your fiber intake, or you don’t think you’re getting enough fiber—you might consider supplementing your fiber intake. Dietary fiber supplements serve a purpose and should be utilized when prescribed. Unless prescribed, aim to meet your daily fiber intake through natural fiber sources. 

You’ve worked hard to commit to your nutrition and lifestyle changes that support whole-body health. This might have you worried that you’ll fall off the health wagon this holiday season. What you eat during the holidays is more than food, it’s tradition. There’s no need to deprive yourself of the holiday foods you love most. The tips below will help you eat-guilt free without overindulging.

Salads and sandwiches are a fast and easy option for lunch, late-night dinners, casual dining, and road trips. If you find yourself deciding between a salad and a sandwich, the salad may have more vegetables, but the sandwich may be a healthier option. Let’s dive into how to identify unhealthy salads.

When it comes to maintaining your nutrition during the holiday season, it’s not a sheer matter of resisting holiday sweets and other indulgent dishes. The holidays can bring as much stress as they do joy. For some, more stress than joy. Whatever they may be, holiday stressors increase the likelihood of emotional eating. This spans the range of comfort eating and binge eating to self-soothe or skipping meals to control what you can control.

To simplify grocery shopping and meal planning you might be tempted to eat the same meal every day. This is especially true when you find a nutrition-aligned meal that you truly enjoy. Even if the meal is nutrient-dense and delicious, there are a few downsides to repeating meals.

Mornings are busy so you need your breakfast to be fast and easy. The challenge for those living with diabetes is that cereal, toast, and most standard breakfast foods are high in carbs. The diabetic-friendly breakfast ideas below are fast, easy, and nutritious.

Does determining what to prepare for dinner feel like a chore? Cooking your own meals empowers you to provide your family with healthful nutrition. That said, time is tight, which may leave you scrambling to decide what to make at the end of a long day. Here are some easy meal planning tips and tricks.

While most of us can only name a handful of hormones, there are over 50 hormones in the body. These chemical messengers work synergistically to regulate essential

functions in the body. Although complex, hormonal regulation is something you have more control over than you may think. This is due to the gut-hormone connection. Let’s explore this connection.

Ideally, most of what you drink throughout the day should be water. When you’re in the mood for something else you must be mindful of its ingredients. If you aren’t careful, you’ll end up drinking your calories or sugar for the day. Even when you’re selecting a seemingly healthy beverage.

We’ve all been there. You had a long day at work. Your kid’s extracurricular activity ran late. You’ve just returned home from traveling. You’re hungry but exhausted and want to go to bed, but you can’t wait until morning to eat. And you don’t want to eat something that’s going to keep you up. Here are a few healthy late-night meals.

Trying to find the right diet? You aren’t alone. If you’re a woman, you’re likely to spend 17 years of your life trying to lose weight on different fad diets. Many work but aren’t sustainable. This is because healthful nutrition is personalized and centered around eating to optimize your health—not centered on deprivation. The 5 tips below will help you identify messaging and marketing that promotes toxic diet culture, as opposed to true health and nutrition.

Summer is almost here, meaning that you may find yourself outdoors and more active than during the fall and winter months. As the weather warms up, you’ll need to provide your body with additional hydration. Think beyond hydrating fluids to hydrating foods.

GLP-1 medications have revolutionized the weight loss industry. The results are slow and steady, with the potential to lose up to 5 pounds a month. One of the biggest challenges is that weight loss may not be sustainable once you stop your weekly injection. Let’s explore how exercise may help you maintain your results by resolving the unofficial side effect— Semaglutide muscle loss.

The importance of dietary fiber is often misunderstood. Many think of fiber only in terms of staving off or resolving constipation. Or they shy away from high-fiber foods out of concern that it will make them gassy. When you improve your fiber intake you improve nutrition, digestion, and whole-body health. Let’s dive in and explore what fiber is and its primary roles in the body.