Eating
Appetite For Exercise, Not Food
Scientists determined that lactate—a byproduct of intense exercise—suppressed levels of ghrelin and bumped up levels of other hormones that reduce appetite.
Family Meal Planning
Try some of these family meal planning strategies and healthy recipes, which you can customize for your family’s lifestyle.
The Dark Side of Night Eating
Those who consume a lower percentage of their daily calories after sunset consume fewer calories overall as compared to those who ate more at night.
Healthy Food: Seeing Is Believing
Research may provide food producers with an idea of how to change the surface texture of food to alter consumers’ perceptions and encourage healthy eating.
An App to Help Kids Eat Better
Weight Watchers, now rebranded as WW®, recently launched Kurbo, a new weight-loss app aimed at ages 8–17. Among the weight- and diet-focused elements of the Kurbo app is a traffic-light system that indicates which foods kids can freely enjoy and which they should limit. For example, an apple gets a green light, and soda gets a red light.
The New Label Lingo?
Here’s a novel idea to help people trim down their calorie intake: Tell them how many miles they’ll have to run to burn off that chocolate bar or slice of pizza.
Finally, a Trick That Gets Kids to Eat More Broccoli
Most parents will agree that getting their kids to eat greens can be really difficult. Simultaneously offering them multiple options seems to be a solution.
Another Win for Gluten
People without a gluten-related disorder (for instance, celiac disease or nonceliac gluten sensitivity) did not experience gastrointestinal symptoms like bloating after consuming gluten flour twice daily for 2 weeks, according to a double-blind, randomized controlled study in the journal Gastroenterology. This is more evidence to counteract the belief that eating gluten-free as a lifestyle choice is the healthier way to go.
February 2020 Question of the Month: Is Your Fridge a Food-Waste Black Hole?
People eat a lot less of their refrigerated food than they expect to, and they’re likely throwing out perfectly good items as a result of misunderstanding labels. This is according to a study in the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling that aimed to suss out what is contributing to Americans’ rampant food waste.
Ask the RD: What’s the Story on Complete and Incomplete Proteins?
What’s the story on complete and incomplete proteins? Do I need to combine plant proteins to get enough? These are important questions, given our current obsession with protein, and the answer may surprise you. In short, thinking about protein as complete or incomplete is an idea that many nutrition scientists believe we should do away with.
Guilt-Free Holiday Eating
A guilt-free holiday can be delicious! These six recipes from a professional chef committed to comfort food makeovers will have your taste buds smiling through the holiday season without forcing you to log extra hours in the gym.
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