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Poll: More Americans Are Happy With Their Weight

Only 49 percent of Americans said they would like to lose weight - the first time in at least 25 years that less than half of the population wanted to shed some pounds.
  • Trump to Obama: Focus on the Real War

    The Republican presidential aspirant and business tycoon, Donald Trump has spoken and does not approve of Obama's humor concluding his last press conference of 2015 with his excuse of catching Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the theaters. Trump remarked that "we are in a serious war".
  • 8 Inspiring Lessons From Street Food Vendors

    Originally published in Yourstory.com, Maheima Kapu shares 8 of gathered stories and insights from food vendors that will surely inspire you and definitely leave you a lesson and realization.
  • 5 Dangerous Food Fallacies and Practices

    Celebrated author and TV personality Julia Child once joked: "Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?" Kitchen practices in relation to food health and safety, in truth, have been evolving. Microbial activities, including bacterial benefits and detriments, have been undergoing a huge amount of demystification. A number of practices and measures believed to be safe - even healthy - in the past have been proved otherwise. A few of these have been compiled by food microbiologist and Food Safety Information Council vice president Cathy Moir.
  • Back to School and Work: 3 Easy and Quick Lunch Solutions for a Healthy, New You [Video]

    The first week of 2016 is the best time to break free from the unhealthy comfort food eating spree and say hello to healthier lunch boxes. The secret to planning your meal is to create easy to heat wholesome food.
  • 6 Best Superfoods You Need To Get the Most Out of 2016

    'Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future' author David Wolfe says: "We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing." Fortunately a much greater appreciation for healthy eating and food supplements as superfoods are now being seen among an ever widening audience. Here are a few of these wonders of nature recommended for 2016 as compiled in The Huffington Post.
  • Orthorexia Nervosa: Key Aspects of New Eating Disorder

    Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that begins with good intentions. Many associate its roots to clean eating - a healthy eating trend that originally targets reducing or eliminating toxic, unhealthy food items and practices from day to day meals. Clean eating has aided hugely in addresses rising cases of such health problems as obesity, heart diseases and diabetes. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, health blogger Jordan Younger and The Huffington Post's Besma Whayeb weigh in on this eating disorder that Dr. Steven Bratman called Orthorexia,
  • Be in the Loop: 3 Food Trends, Including Liquid Meal Replacements, for the New Year

    New Forbes contributor and TASTE: Surprising Stories and Science About Why Food Tastes Good author Barb Stuckey shares her 2016 food predictions.
  • 10 Weird Hangover Cures You Might Be Needing Post New Year's Eve Parties or Any Other Weekend Shindigs

    It's a brand new year, but all you can think of is your throbbing headache as a result of all the partying and merriment you did last night. All you need is some piece of quiet and this article.
  • Carrie Fisher Drops 35 Pounds for Star Wars Comeback: No, The 'Force' Has Nothing To Do With It

    Fisher was outraged by the obsessive focus on her weight and appearance, saying youth and beauty are not accomplishments. She also criticized the way people set standards of beauty and likely appearance.
  • The 5 Things You Should Be Doing On An Empty Stomach

    While loading up the carbs and calories is essential for anything, some studies have justified that being hungry has its upsides too.
  • Study: Ultrasounds Can Detect Breast Cancer

    Using the ultrasound, however, was better at detecting invasive cancers and those without calcifications, said lead author Dr. Wendie Berg, of Magee-Women's Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
  • Sweet Potato Nutritional Beneftis: Find Out Why Catwalk Darling and Lily Aldridge, Kendall Jenner's Go-To Food is Snubbed in America

    Victoria's Secret Angel Lily Aldridge once confessed to being addicted to roasted chicken and sweet potatoes. Kendall Jenner, preparing for her first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show said that she dined on 'chicken and sweet potato and egg whites and avocado'. IMG model Danielle Copperman is quoted from her food diary: "If you are home for dinner, make a plain meal of meat or fish, green vegetables and either quinoa, brown rice or sweet potato.
  • Starbucks: Beer and Wine in the Menu With 'Starbucks Evening', Stocks Are Up for the Seattle Coffee Giant

    Across the US, Starbucks is going in the direction of New York and Chicago 'Buzz bars'.To expand mileage, branches are looking to offer alcohol along with the regular coffee and tea menu, providing a quiet alternative to the typical sports bar scene. This innovation is called Starbucks Evenings and is already available in a few branches.
  • 6 Best Fermented Food to Zest Up The Kitchen

    One of the best, and oldest, ways to liven up a dish or a meal is by adding a side-dish or table seasoning made with fermented food. Why fermented food? The benefits outlined by Dr. David Williams are encouraging validations for going on the fermented route: Traditional fermented foods assist in managing the balance of stomach acid production; act as digestive aids that help the body produce acetylcholine, provide benefits to diabetics; assist in inhibiting the growth of pathogenic bacteria in the body.
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