What to Eat Before and After a Workout For Better Results
When it comes to your overall health and transforming your body, nutrition and exercise are two of the most important factors. Because they go hand-in-hand, fueling your body with proper nutrition is key to reaching your fitness goals. Regardless of your fitness goals, making healthy choices before and after workouts can help you sustain more energy during a workout,…
What Actually Happens to Your Body When You Skip Breakfast
You get up in the morning (after hitting the snooze button once or twice), make your coffee, work out, and shower before logging on for work or heading to the office. The next thing you know, it’s noon, and you haven’t eaten a thing. If that sounds familiar, you’re in good company; about 25 percent of Americans skip…
A Dietician Says The Latest Viral Recipe Trend is The Perfect Lunch
TikTok is well-known for setting food trends (who hasn’t tried a cucumber salad, feta pasta, or cottage cheese toast?). As a dietitian, one trend that I am currently loving is the dense bean salad. Because if you ask me, beans just might be nature’s perfect food. That’s right: Beans are a budget-friendly pantry staple that is a great source…
Everything You Need Know About Cacao, and Why You Should Start Drinking It
With iced matcha trending and pumpkin spice lattes making their seasonal debut, cacao is largely overlooked as one of the most powerful superfoods (and drinks). This is largely because chocolate has been industrialized and westernized, turning cacao (the raw, unprocessed form of chocolate) into a sweet, milky dessert that overshadows cacao’s natural benefits. But the benefits are so powerful,…
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The Animal-Based Diet Is Going Viral–Here’s What Experts Say
Burgers, steaks, bacon, eggs, and butter on repeat—it may sound like a recipe for disaster, but many nutritionists, health nuts, and influencers are saying otherwise, swearing by the animal-based diet or carnivore diet and crediting it for clearer skin, better gut health, more energy, and feeling in the best shape of their lives. Case in point:…
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Why You Don’t Need a Thanksgiving Detox, and How to Care for Your Body Instead
The body repairs itself No matter how many calories you ate or how many servings of mashed potatoes you devoured, the body processes and digests all of it. Everything from the saliva in the mouth to the enzymes in the stomach is meant to digest food, get the nourishment it needs from that food, and then get…
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