By Family Features | Contributor What you eat and drink, as well as your activity level and habits, affect your heart and brain health and are essential for managing blood pressure, cholesterol and more. High blood pressure (readings consistently higher than 130/80 mm Hg) is a leading cause and controllable risk…
By Tanni Haas, Ph.D. | Contributor We’ve all been there: despite our very best efforts – and cajoling – our kids simply won’t eat healthy, home-cooked food. How about trying a new strategy and making healthy eating a fun activity? Here are some fun ways to inspire the kids: Dinner…
By Family Features | Contributor It can be hard to ignore the rising costs of food, gas and other basic household items. Many families are especially feeling the burden of inflation at the grocery store. However, you can make your hard-earned dollars stretch a little further at the supermarket and put…
By Sandra Gordon Eating right is no picnic. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, along comes a new report trumpeting the benefits of yet another good-for-you food. Sure, some of them are winners. But many are not: They’re simply victims of too much health hype. Here…
By Dr. Dean Beckloff | Contributor Our teens are struggling and not just with the current pandemic. For a long time, they have been struggling with having a negative body image, or in other words, feeling that they do not measure up when it comes to their bodies. That there…
Oh So Useful and Common Kitchen Tools That Make My Life Easier! First we took a look at our Favorite Pantry Picks and then at our Frozen Food Favorites and our Longer Lasting Perishables. Having all of these items on hand make things easier for you to create a…
Week #3, Long Lasting Perishables First we took a look at our Favorite Pantry Picks and then at our Frozen Food Favorites. Now let’s turn to perishables. The point of these lists is to set your kitchen up to be able to prepare a meal out of things you…
Blueberries have superpowers,” says Vilma Andari, M.S., nutritionist and founder of NutraHealthFood, a health and wellness company in Los Angeles. While this statement may seem radical, Andari is on to something. Recently, Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association published a study reporting that blueberries may cut heart attack risk in…