Nutrition
Real Weight Loss: Sarah and Donald Baum
Names: Sarah and Donald Baum Ages: 30 and 63 Locations: Medford and Bolton Total weight loss: Both lost roughly 100 pounds When Sarah Baum decided to get bariatric […]
No Pots & Pans Joins the Boston Meal Delivery Scene
Andy Horvitz is spending a lot of time in the kitchen these days. Horvitz is the founder of No Pots & Pans, the latest local […]
Robert ‘Rawbert’ Reid: I Eat Only Raw Foods
Robert “Rawbert” Reid Age: 51 Occupation: Accountant turned restaurateur at Beverly’s Organic Garden Café. Passion: Vegan-, organic-, raw-food evangelism. It Helps That…: His wife works […]
A UMass Professor Is Trying to Make Junk Food Healthier
A professor from UMass Amherst wants to make your favorite guilty pleasures a little less guilty. Eric Decker, a food scientist at UMass, was given […]
Eight Healthy Drinks That’ll Keep You Toasty This Winter
Love it or hate it, it looks like the cold weather is here to stay. And after struggling through commutes in Boston wind tunnels and below-freezing […]
Recipe: Cardamom Pear Breakfast Quinoa
Sick of the same old oatmeal? Jazz up your breakfast routine by swapping your usual porridge for protein-packed quinoa. This filling breakfast quinoa gets a spicy […]
Harvard Made a Visual Guide to Childhood Nutrition
If your child’s plate is filled with chicken nuggets and mac n’ cheese more often than you’d like, a new tool from the Harvard T.H. […]
Why Is There So Much Controversy About the Federal Dietary Guidelines?
Since the latest iteration of the federal dietary guidelines came out last week, the internet has been ablaze with criticism. Most critiques center around […]
Real Weight Loss: Cornelius Hardenbergh
Name: Cornelius Hardenbergh Age: 30 Location: Jamaica Plain Total weight lost: 130 pounds, so far Cornelius Hardenbergh knew he needed to lose weight. He brought lunch to work, […]
How to Follow Seven of the Year’s Best Diets
All diets are not created equal. So says U.S. News & World Report, which just released its annual Best Diets Rankings, a list that spans best-overall DASH […]
New Federal Dietary Guidelines Emphasize Well-Rounded Eating
The Departments of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Agriculture (USDA) have released the latest version of their Dietary Guidelines for Americans report, and—good news—it’s basically all […]
Recipe: Spaghetti Squash with Tomato Eggplant Sauce
No matter what your resolution says, it’s a safe assumption that holiday sweets are still lingering somewhere in your home. Put down the cookies and […]
11 Healthy Chili Recipes That’ll Warm You Up This Winter
After months of unseasonably warm weather, the cold is brutally, unquestionably here. And though it may be miserable as you traverse the windy streets of […]
If David Ludwig Is Right, Everything We Thought We Knew About Obesity—and Low-Fat Diets—Is Wrong
If one Boston doctor is right, everything we thought we knew about obesity—and diet—has been wrong for decades. But it’s not too late to change our eating habits.
Six Tips for Kicking Your Holiday Sugar Addiction
After weeks of binging on candy and hitting the office treat tray hard, sugar is likely an all-too-large food group in your diet right now—so […]