6 Stretching Exercises to Balance Your Walking Routine

Walking is one of the most accessible forms of exercise you can do to strengthen your heart and improve leg and core strength. And if you're engaging in a regular walking routine, you might not even feel sore after each jaunt around the park...

If soreness is your only cue to stretch, you may not realize you should always include stretching as part of your walking routine...

How to Lose Weight Healthfully

As a nutrition professional, I have always believed that you can eat intuitively. That means you can listen to your internal hunger and fullness cues, while still aiming to lose weight. The two ideas aren't mutually exclusive in my mind, and I have often seen that successfully play out with my clients...

3 Life Skills Social Anxiety Impairs (and 2 It Strengthens)

Living with social anxiety can be challenging. It impairs your ability to relate to other people, be a part of society, and function in day-to-day life.

But, what if I told you there are also some life skills that get a boost when you have social anxiety?..

6 Ways to Make Your Chili Healthier

The days are officially getting colder and darker, which means it's the ideal time to perfect your chili recipe. The classic dish, which is typically made with ground meat, tomatoes, and kidney beans, as well as seasonings such as garlic, onions, and cumin, is the perfect cold-weather meal. Chili can be made in advance, you can easily prepare a large quantity...

3 Key Macronutrients to Eat Every Day (and How They Differ From Micronutrients)

When diving into the world of nutrition, there are a lot of different factors you can focus on. Everywhere you turn it seems that someone is touting the next obscure micronutrient purported to radically change your health. When it comes down to it, though, nutrition is built on three main macronutrients that pretty much everyone is at least somewhat familiar with...

Are Children’s Multivitamins Totally Unnecessary?

If you walk the aisles of your local drugstore, you’ll see bottle after bottle of multivitamins marketed specifically for kids. That has a tendency to give the impression they are commonly needed, but the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendation is that a healthy child who is eating a well-balanced diet does not need to take vitamins—with the exception...

Is Seitan Healthy?

My vegetarian family and I have been ordering the same dish from our favorite local Thai restaurant for years—it’s a tangy curry filled with “mock duck.” The chunks of braised seitan standing in for duck are so chewy, tasty, and, well, duck-like, that we have asked the waitstaff several...

10 Key Ways to Keep Your Heart Healthy for Life

We all want a healthy heart for life. Diet can make a huge difference in achieving that goal.

On Tuesday, the American Heart Association released its list of the 10 key components that make up a heart-healthy eating pattern...

5 Smart Habits for Strong, Healthy Lungs

The past year and a half has been full of many lessons, perhaps none more important than being keenly aware about the air we breathe and how we take care of our body. We spend a lot of time talking about air quality in our homes, ways to boost our immunity, or the best ways to sanitize and kill germs. We don't often look inward to our lungs...

5 Healthy-Aging Lessons From One of The World’s Five Blue Zones

Ikaria, a Greek island in the Eastern Aegean Sea, is one of the world's five "blue zones," or the places with the highest percentage of centenarians in the world.

The other blue zones are Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; the community of Seventh-Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California...