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Can Probiotics Really Help Your Health?
Can Fermented Foods Really Help Your Health? Reams of research have looked into the health effects of probiotic (“good”) bacteria that ferment our foods. But most of these trials test specific strains...
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The Benefits of Probiotics
The Power of Probiotics To hear Sandor Katz tell it, our world would be a very different place without fermented food. It’s not merely that we wouldn’t have much of the fare we cherish most: wine,...
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Expert Alice Medrich's Tips on Cooking With Chocolate
The Queen of Chocolate At first, the idea of creating “healthier” chocolate desserts may sound—well, plain vanilla. But in the hands of a chocolate artisan like Alice Medrich, it’s anything but....
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Why Chocolate is Good for Your Heart
Chocolate for a Sweet Heart? Chocolate to cure a broken heart is a popular prescription, but it turns out chocolate’s heart-mending reputation might just be deserved. A few months ago, Harvard...
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Cooking with Coffee
Coffee’s New Perks Bzzzzzzzz. It starts with the high-pitched sound of my favorite blend of dark- and medium-roast coffee beans whirling in the grinder. Soon the air is saturated with that deeply...
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How to Eat Lower on the Glycemic Index
5 Rules of Thumb for Lowering the Glycemic Index All the carbohydrate foods we eat cause a release of glucose into the bloodstream—and a corresponding rise in insulin—but some raise glucose more than...
View ArticleDiabetes: How to Say No to Food Pushers
Tips for Real Life: How to spot—and deal with—saboteurs Sometimes the people around you might act to undermine your resolve, whether they’re aware of it or not. That aunt who brings you her famous...
View ArticleStaying Healthy is a Family Affair
When Dan was diagnosed three years ago with type 2 diabetes, he didn’t need to be educated much about the disease. He was already something of an expert, since both parents and a sister also had type...
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The debates in the nutrition world about the value of low- and no-calorie sweeteners are often loud and raucous, but when the discussion turns to their role in diabetes, the conversations become much...
View ArticleCooking Up a Healthier Lifestyle
In his 17-year career as a professional chef, Dan M. was used to high pressure. Working seven-day weeks, and even 22-hour days, was par for the course—and he was known for his speedy knife skills. But...
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Soup Recipes to Help You Lose Weight
Power Soups I’ll never forget the moment in a Weight Watchers meeting when the conversation turned to “The Soup.” Everyone in the room, it seemed, owed their success to the Garden Vegetable Soup...
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10 Surprising Food Sources of “Natural” & Artificial Sweeteners
Even if you think you’re avoiding artificial sweeteners, you may be eating them. No-calorie sugar substitutes, both natural and artificial ones, are sneaking their way into foods and beverages beyond...
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Sugar Substitutes and Your Health
Hide & Go Sweet Maybe you think you don't use sugar substitutes. Maybe you steer clear of diet sodas and "lite" foods to avoid chemicals like aspartame. But if you've eaten certain high-fiber...
View ArticleHow to Improve Your Cholesterol Levels
Slash Bad Cholesterol, Now! One third of Americans have unhealthy cholesterol levels, so why did the most recent USDA dietary guidelines ax its advice to limit the cholesterol we eat daily? Well, for...
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Tips for Eating During Cancer Treatment
If you are going through treatment for cancer, there's a good chance you'll have eating problems at some point. Both radiation and chemotherapy can affect the cells in your mouth and digestive tract...
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