Researchers have divided eating into two categories, which are important to understand: 1) 'homeostatic eating', in which food intake is driven by a true need for energy, and 2) 'non-homeostatic eating', in which food intake is driven by other factors.  Eating in response to hunger is mostly homeostatic, while eating for pleasure, emotional/stress reasons, social reasons, or just because it's mealtime, is non-homeostatic.  As I'll explain in more detail later in this series, non-homeostatic... Read more...

Nicci Micco is editor-at-large for EatingWell Magazine

 

Do you avoid carbs when you're trying to eat better? Our bodies and our brains need carbohydrates to work effectively.

6 healthy carbs to keep... Read more...

With a host of English misnomers like fennel flower, nutmeg flower, Roman coriander, black sesame, black cumin, black caraway, and onion seed, Nigella Sativa is known today primarily as black seed. 

 

Called an obscure spice by some, a wonder-drug by others, the elusive Nigella is coming clean on her fabled past and future in medicine.

 

 

Black seed expresses over 20 distinct pharmacological actions, including:

Editor's note: This is the first in a series about gluten by Colorado College student Sarah Hutcherson.

This is my confession.  

I fell victim to the gluten-free craze. I labeled myself gluten sensitive, which is one of the most evasive terms, whose definition continues to elude me. I removed all gluten-filled foods, any food made with wheat flours such as pasta, bread and pastries, out of my diet. I believed it cured my sore stomach and foggy mind. I spent too much money on udi’s... Read more...

Virgin Holy Bloody Maria – spicy!
Juice from 2 lemons
4 cups tomato juice
¾ tsp pepper
3 dashes hot sauce
1 tbsp parsley
pinch each: cinnamon, cayenne, cumin
¼ tsp ginger
¼ tsp turmeric
1 tbsp horseradish
½ tsp... Read more...