Savory and Sweet Summer Fruit Guide + 3 Delicious Recipes
My favorite part of summer is the ripe, flavorful fruits that will be in season from now until the fall. They're delicious on their own, but don't overlook how wonderfully summer fruits can be integrated into nearly any meal.
Build Stress Resilience with Ayurveda
In the West, stress has become a major contributor to disease and illness. Instead of stress reduction, Ayurveda prescribes a series of stress-prevention techniques.
How to Eat to Lose Weight
The program outlined below is not a diet. It is a way of life that will support you in weight loss and maintenance, and in building a foundation for living the life of your dreams.
Lighten Up! 6 Easy Substitutions to Lighten Your Favorite Meals
Before you sign up for the latest fad diet, why not try a few simple, everyday changes in your favorite recipes that will shave off fat and calories more painlessly than a strict diet.
What Is The Environmental Impact of Eating Meat?
Vegetarians and vegans say eating meat isn't good for your health. Animal rights groups say meat production is unfair to animals. But how bad is meat for the environment?
Detox Buyer’s Guide: Top Products to Help You Cleanse
Our intrepid tester tried them all — foot spas, detox baths, foot pads, workouts, foods, and skin treatments — and asked experts how they work. A personal shopper’s lowdown on the detox scene.
Detox 101
Daily life produces toxins—there’s no way around that. The body has mechanisms for eliminating toxins, such as breathing, sweating, urinating and bowel movements, but sometimes it needs a little bit of help.
Making Sense of Food Labels
These days, labels, not to be confused with Nutrition Facts, are everywhere. Here’s a rundown of how to translate the most popular eco-labels.
Spring Detox Foods & Shopping List
What to eat to feel better, boost fat burn and help prevent illness this spring! How to use spring’s harvest of low-fat, detoxifying sprouts, greens and berries to cleanse your body of toxins and impurities.
Quiz: How Green are Your Groceries?
If you’re trying to lead a greener lifestyle, grocery shopping can seem positively treacherous. If you think you’ve got the scoop on the most responsible choices at the supermarket, take this quiz to see how much you know…and which topics you need to brush up on.
Spring Produce and Healthy Recipes
Get the pick of the first tender vegetables of the season. A guide to seven springtime favorites to watch for, plus three healthy recipes to help you succeed at eating what’s in season.
Update Your Heart Smarts: New Research & Advice
Updated studies, statistics and tips on preventing cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke, including how yoga, meditation and other techniques are proven to help.
QUIZ: Are You an Eco-Sexual?
It seems like everyone is going eco-sexual these days. The term—which describes those who will date only others of the same environmental persuasion (similar to a metrosexual but who buys organic clothing as opposed to designer clothing)—has officially hit the big time. Take this quiz to find out how eco you really are.
Heat Up Valentine's Day: 3 (Healthy) Aphrodisiac Recipes
Whip up a romantic Valentine's Day meal packed with aphrodisiacs. Fun trivia on the love powers of seven aphrodisiac foods, plus three recipes for a complete meal to spark some romance.
Proof that Eating Slowly Curbs Appetite
For more than 30 years, dieters have been told to eat slowly to reduce their intake of food. Until now, there has been no scientific evidence to support the theory. But a new laboratory study confirmed that eating more slowly helps people eat less.
Vegan, Vegetarian, Macrobiotic ... What's the Difference?
Not all vegetarians are created equal. Get the lowdown in this excerpt from "Veggie Revolution: Smart Choices for a Healthy Body And a Healthy Planet."
Lose Weight Permanently with Ayurveda
Is simply being an American making you fat? This plan for what, when and how to eat to lose weight and keep it off for life is based on Ayurveda and European ideas about food.
Detox Without Fasting: 2 Easy Plans
Tips to help you make the most of nature's detox plan. How to do a daily cleanse and a seasonal or quarterly detox just by shifting your sleep schedule and eating some everyday detoxifying foods.
1-2-3 Detox for Radiance
Gone overboard with indulgences lately? Look radiant in 24 hours, luminous in 48, and positively sparkly in 72. Step-by-step plan gives 3 ways to detox plus 7 recipes.
Healthy Holiday Party Food: 10 Tips + 3 Recipes
You don’t have to be a nutritional saint during the holidays. Sneaky substitution tips and delicious-yet-virtuous recipes from chef and healthy eating coach Michele Morris make a big difference with just a few small changes.
Veggie Thanksgiving Tips & Recipes
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be all about that big bird in the middle of your dinner table. This year, we’ll be making meatless options a bigger focus on our menu. But I will miss the wishbone!
Are plastic water bottles a health hazard?
Is it true that refilling and reusing some types of plastic bottles can cause health problems? Straight talk about the research on how unsafe single-use plastic bottles are, and how to avoid the dangers.
Redo Your Kitchen in Green
Eco-decorators recommend the top five eco-friendly kitchen materials to look for — plus top materials to avoid.
Healthy Halloween! 5 Tips + 3 Recipes
Make this spooky holiday healthier for kids of all ages — and still have a monster of a good time. Try these alternatives to candy for trick-or-treat time, plus three recipes for healthier Halloween treats.
Schools Offering Healthier Lunches
A run-down of progressive school lunch programs that are offering healthier and greener food choices — and resources to help your school start one.
10 Ways to Get Kids to Eat Healthier
Tips for parents from "Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children" by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes.
How to Make Tofu Tantalizing
Give tofu a chance; it’s all in the prep! Expert tips and recipes for preparing all manner of tofu like nobody’s business — marinated, grilled, stir-fried … even in a creamy dip.
Hot off the Grill
Grilling tips and marinade recipes to create a memorable outdoor grilling experience for meat-lovers and vegetarians alike. Includes tips on grilling tofu, veggies, meats, seafood and poultry.
15 Easy Ways to Be Healthier
A doctor, nutritionist and fitness trainer each recommend their top five changes they recommend in diet, exercise and stress management to improve your health without a big lifestyle change.
USDA Organic: Behind the Label
An introduction to organic food labeling in the U.S. and what the claims USDA organic, organic and made with organic ingredients mean on food packaging.
Top Fruits and Veggies to Buy Organic
Keep this Dirty Dozen list handy when food shopping. Lower your pesticide exposure by almost 90 percent by avoiding conventional versions of the top 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables and buying them in organic form instead.
Let the Sun Do the Cooking: 4 Recipes + Tips
Three recipes using summer produce and sunshine, slow cooking to intensify flavors. Cook up a great dish without heating up the house, and use nary an iota of man-made power.
Top 10 Superfoods
Too busy to eat as healthfully as you’d like every day? Dr. James Rouse shows you how to get maximum nutritional punch from a few uber-foods that can help fill the gaps.
Benefits of Eating What’s in Season
Eating local and in season is good for your health and the environment, but did you know it can also make food more flavorful and nutritious, and save you money too? Find out how and why.
5 Eco-Friendly Kids’ Activities
Fun, eco-friendly and educational activities to keep kids busy outside and excited to be green.
A Raucous Year of Eating Locally, Part 1: He Said
For an entire year, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon ate only foods from within 100 miles of their home. An excerpt from 'Plenty: One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally'
A Raucous Year of Eating Locally, Part 2: She Said
For an entire year, Alisa Smith and J.B. McKinnon ate local to the extreme: only foods from within 100 miles of their home. Here's her side of the story at two months into their experiment.
100-mile Diet: Q&A With a Couple Who Did It
5 questions with a couple who ate only foods from within 100 miles of their home for an entire year, and chronicled their triumphant adventure in their book.
Experts Say Eat Local for Health, Planet and Wallet
The food on your table may travel up to 3,000 miles from where it was produced. Why you should care and what 'local-vores' and other local-food advocates are doing about it.
Getting Burned by Your Metabolism?
Naturopathic physician, chef and TV health-news host Dr. James Rouse sheds light on what, when and how to eat to keep your metabolism burning strong -- and the surprising all-day energy you can get in addition to that calorie burn.
