Peanut Butter Banana Nice Cream A simple, great tasting, and good-for-you summer treat! Nice Cream starts with blending frozen bananas in a food processor and can take on endless flavor combinations after that. My personal favorite it this banana, peanut butter, and...

How Can Foods Lower Cholesterol? With an estimated 1 out of 3 American adults with high cholesterol levels, it's no surprise that questions about diet changes to lower cholesterol come up often.  If you have been diagnosed with high cholesterol taking a look at your...

What is Metabolic Syndrome? You may have heard the name but there is often some confusion about what exactly is metabolic syndrome, in fact,  keyword research shows over 74,000 Google searches for "metabolic syndrome" in just the past 24 hours.  Also called syndrome...

The 2018 Exercise Guidelines: What the Past 10 Years Have Taught Us The United State Department of Health and Human Services has updated its exercise guidelines! The 2018 guidelines are an update to the first-ever published recommendations in 2008, which included a...

Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay Are there choices that you could be making in your diet now that could slow cognitive decline and even reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease? A growing body of evidence is showing that this might...

Estimating Hydration Needs: When talking about health and diet, the topic of hydration often comes up, and rightly so if you think about the fact that the average human body is comprised of 55-70% water.  Water is so essential to human life that without it humans...