Nutrition on Shine

Pat yourself on the back: What's one healthy thing you did over Thanksgiving?

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I was on the radio in Portland, Oregon last week, sharing ideas with how to have a healthier Thanksgiving. Sometimes I wonder, as I talk about these things -- swaps you can make, ways you can cut calories, how you can burn fat so you don't have to unbutton your pants at the dinner table -- if people are really listening. I think many of us want to hear these tips and tricks, but a good number of us will never really put them into action.

5 Ways to make food shopping healthier

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Healthy eating starts with healthy grocery shopping. When we arrive at the grocery store, however, and our kids (or we) are yammering for the newest sugared cereals, cookies or ice cream, it’s easy to get distracted and pulled off-course from even the best of intentions to keep your cart…

Our health report card for 2009: Are we making progress?

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The late Ted Kennedy said this in 1994 about health-care reform: "What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system." Not much has changed in the past 15 years. Although disease treatment has progressively improved, preventable illnesses prevalence is still rising, causing a lot of suffering and impairing the quality of life for many.

The 7 foods experts won't eat

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How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them one simple question—“What…

Baby mama must-haves

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Here’s something nobody seems to warn you about when you embark on motherhood: those humongous horse pill prenatal vitamins you’re expected to swallow throughout pregnancy and while you’re nursing. You gag, you cough, slap your chest silly and still the darn thing is stuck in your throat. And when you do get it down, morning sickness kicks in, and you wonder what vital nutrient you might have missed out on today.