Evidence-based advice from registered dietitians on the best foods, vitamins and nutrients — separating the facts from the fads.
Calories are not the number doing the damage. We used each chain’s own published nutrition data to rank 18 fast food chains by the saltiest single item on the menu, and the worst one carries more than three days of sodium.
A Krispy Kreme glazed donut has 10 grams of sugar. These 22 everyday foods, from tomato soup to BBQ sauce, carry more in one serving, per their own labels.
No nut heals anything on its own, but the research shows what each one actually does. Here is the evidence on walnuts, almonds, pistachios, peanuts, hazelnuts and Brazil nuts.
Dark chocolate has a higher percent of actual cocoa compared to milk and white chocolate. The higher level of cocoa is what gives the…
Food plays numerous roles in our lives; it brings people together, provides an avenue to express our creativity, and most importantly, fuels our body…
A hot flash kit for your bed, your body and your bag, plus the supplement that beat placebo and the ones that did not.
Kit Kat or Hershey’s? Reese’s Cups or Pieces? Eight Halloween candy categories, every pair compared at the same 30-gram weight so the wrapper size doesn’t decide it.
Which anti-aging drinks hold up in the research, which ones are marketing, and the one drink to cut if you care about how you age.
A Registered Dietitian shares her real food diary — breakfast through cocktail — plus the 10 daily nutrition categories that make consistent healthy eating achievable.
A registered dietitian names the five foods she avoids outright, from kids’ cereal to cheese from a can, with the added sugar and sodium numbers behind each call and what she reaches for instead.
Seven fish categories, one healthiest and one unhealthiest pick in each, chosen on the mercury and omega-3 numbers the FDA actually measured.
Fifteen foods that turn up again and again across two decades of Blue Zones research, counted down from 15 to 1, with the daily amounts the cited studies describe.