Think you have to sacrifice flavor to get healthier? With a few mindful swaps, you can have your soul food and eat it too.
Turns out soul food can be good for you — if cooked mindfully.
Studies indicating too much soul food can lead to heart disease and other ailments often ignore the recipe changes people can make to their favorite foods to keep them tasty and healthy, nutritionists say.
“People of color were not taught about how healthy their foods are from a traditional standpoint,” Jasmine Westbrook, co-founder of the EatWell Exchange, told theGrio.
There’s no need to…
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Michelle Obama launches company to promote healthy food for kids
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama announced Wednesday that she has co-founded a company to make and sell healthier food and drinks for kids, products that she says will be less detrimental to their long-term health because of their lower sugar and higher nutrient content.
The former first lady’s work with PLEZi Nutrition is an extension of her efforts to improve child nutrition while she was in the White House.
“I’ve learned that on this issue, if you want to change the game, you can’t just work from the outside,” she said during a keynote address in New York at a conference…
Healthy Food Market to Expand at a CAGR Of 4.50% By 2032 To
New York, US, May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — According to recent study published by Market Research Future (MRFR), “Global Healthy Food Market Information Type, Calorie Content, Nature, Fat Content, Free From Category, Distribution Channel and Region – Forecast until 2032″ the market will achieve USD 1405.69 Billion by 2032 at a 4.50% CAGR.
Healthy Food Market Overview:
A healthy diet helps to prevent malnutrition and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. The specific composition of a diverse, balanced, and healthy diet will be determined by individual factors (such as age, gender, lifestyle, and amount…
The vicious cycle of food and sleep
The future, my mom used to say, belongs to those who wake up early. L’avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt. She’d say this as we drove to early ice skating practices on those cold winter mornings growing up in Quebec. As it turns out, science may be proving her right — though perhaps not in exactly the way she thought.
I am a researcher who specializes in understanding the links between diet, sleep and health. Up until around 2014, my lab focused on examining how too little sleep affects obesity. Our work showed that reducing sleep by about…