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Festivals bring families together and offer opportunities to enjoy traditional sweets, snacks and special meals. However, frequently eating large amounts of sugary foods and refined carbohydrates can affect blood sugar, weight and metabolic health. These changes may influence hormonal balance, especially in women with conditions such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

Eating a healthy diet is important for any growing child, but children with juvenile arthritis (JA) face an additional challenge: Eating foods that promote growth and development and help quiet inflammation. In the face of the coroavirus pandemic, it’s even more important to support your child’s health and immune system with a healthy, balanced diet. 

If you have diabetes, your healthy eating plan should not be that different from a healthy eating plan for someone without diabetes. In fact, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) echoes the dietary guidelines recommended for the general public: A diet centered on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes (peas and beans), and low-fat dairy products

We know that being near someone we love can make us feel good. A new study discovers why: it helps the body work better

Sugary foods combined with antibiotic treatment can damage the gut microbiome in ways that could leave people vulnerable to dangerous infections, a new study shows

We all know tiredness can lead to hunger, and vice versa. But there are so many other ways our habits in these areas are linked. Here are some easy tweaks to help us feel properly refreshed

While lung cancer mortality in the United States has declined significantly since 1990, incidence trends have been more nuanced. New lung cancer cases have fallen in men since the mid-1980s and in women since the mid-2000s, declining annually by 3.0% and 1.4%, respectively, from 2012 to 2021

Why does eating dinner late at night often lead to a higher blood sugar spike than eating the same meal earlier in the evening? This is what we asked an expert, and we were told that our body’s ability to process glucose follows a natural biological clock, known as the circadian rhythm. During the day,…

The early bird gets the worm, according to experts, because early dinners result in better sleep

Not that these practices aren’t great ways to relieve and manage stress, but since they sort of “steal the spotlight,” if you will, diet is often overlooked as part of the stress-fighting picture