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19 Healthy, New Ingredients to Cook With

With the new year comes a host of health-related resolutions: exercise more frequently, perhaps cut out unhealthy ingredients like artificial sweeteners or maybe even reduce screen time and nomophobia. There’s one resolution, however, that’s often overlooked, ...

Gellan Gum: Is This Vegan-Friendly Food Additive a Safer Thickening Agent?

Since its discovery more than three decades ago, gellan gum has become a common additive in the food, beverage, personal care, industrial cleaners and paper-production markets, especially over the past 15 years. According to KP Celco, ...

Vanilla Oil Helps Balance Hormones, Reduce Inflammation & Prevent Cancer

Vanilla extract is widely used in both commercial and domestic baking, perfume manufacturing and aromatherapy, but many people don't realize the array of health benefits that come from using vanilla oil, even though it is not ...

Edible Food Parts You Never Knew You Could Eat

Across America, food "scraps" are often trimmings, skins and seeds tossed in the garbage. But as I started investigating these "waste products," I quickly found many of these actually serve as edible food parts with ...

Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet vs. Low-Fat Diet: Which Helps You Live Longer?

After being demonized for much of the 90s, dietary fats have made a strong comeback over the past two decades. Most people now realize that including healthy fats in their diet is important for many ...

Dangers of Fad Diets

The vast majority of adults have been "on a diet" at some point in their lives, usually with the hopes of losing extra weight. One look into the plethora of diet advice and dietary plans ...

10+ Reasons to Drink Natural, Organic Wine

If you're someone who enjoys a glass of wine or two, you'll be happy to know that research continues to show that wine drinkers reap certain health benefits. Red wine, in particular, has been associated ...

Amylopectin: 3 Reasons to Avoid Foods with This Type of Starch

We all know that loading up on the cookies, candy and soda can skyrocket blood sugar levels and lead to adverse effects on health. But did you know that the same could be true for ...

Horse Chestnut Benefits Include Phlebitis Relief (+ Precautions)

You may not be able to roast it on an open fire, but you might be interested to know that horse chestnut is an effective dietary supplement that’s been used for hundreds of years to ...

7 Ways a Keto Diet Is Perfect for Menopause

For many of my patients, menopause spells absolute misery. Hot flashes cut into their sleep and create heart palpitations; they frequently feel irritated or “off;” and they often sacrifice their sex life during the transition. ...