TIPS ON HEALTHY FOOD AND RECIPES

Not only will goji berries deliver essential nutrients throughout your body, but if you're looking to shed a few pounds or get a better night's sleep, you may want to look into adding this incredible little berry into your diet.

Edamame may be the best-kept secret in the superfood world. Edamame, pronounced ed-ah-MAH-may, are immature, green soybeans. They may be sold fresh, still in their pods, shelled, or frozen. You are most likely to see the salty superfood as an appetizer on restaurant menus.

Let's be honest. There are many ways that people celebrate the winter season — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and New Year's. Not everyone will celebrate every event, but they will get invited to gatherings where tempting foods and drinks common to these traditions are displayed in abundance.

Halloween is almost here! You're throwing your usual All Hallow's Eve Party — yet, this year you want something a bit different from Tombstone cookies, Zombie Fingers, and candied apples. Come over to the "healthy side" and make these tasty Halloween snacks!

Every year, 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed around the world. It’s as much a part of most people’s daily routine as getting out of bed and getting dressed.

It’s no secret that the foods we choose to consume on a daily basis are reflected both inside and out, affecting our health and our appearance alike.

You've decided you want to get fit and healthy, so you need to overhaul your eating habits. Congratulations! You're on the first step to getting the body you've always wanted.

With all the diets plans out there, it can be difficult to figure out what to eat and what to avoid. We all know that eating broccoli is healthier than devouring sweets, but what about the rest of the foods in the grocery store? Is a granola bar healthy? What about a protein supplement?

Red meat gets a bad reputation, but the truth is that in moderation, quality, unprocessed meats such as beef and venison can help to balance out a healthy diet.

Sodium chloride, commonly known as salt, has far-reaching culinary uses and health benefits that vary according to different types, crystal sizes and usage.

Love Italian food? Here are some recipes to skip the pizza and pasta place on the corner and make your own easy healthy nutrient-dense Italian delights.

Moroccan foods are amazing, richly flavored with a wonderfully creative use of veggies. Salads for the mezze ("appetizer" course) tend to feature single vegetables. The array of salads is a chance for a cook to demonstrate creativity and for an "eater" to eat the rainbow.

An oldie but goodie, the humble egg is the ultimate convenience food and has impressive health credentials.

Experts such as the Harvard Medical School, Natural Health Advisory Institute, Mayo Clinic and Prevention Magazine all agree on medicine bottles on the kitchen windowsill being unnecessary for the lowering of cholesterol.

When you first embark on a health and fitness journey, one of the first pieces of advice you'll hear is that you need to give up fast food.