Healthy-Food

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The Checkup: The Argument for Eating a Giant Breakfast

• You’ve likely heard that breakfast is a pretty important meal, but recent research suggests that you also might want to make it your biggest meal of […]

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The Checkup: The Healthy Foods to Blame for a Bloated Belly

• If the last thing you want to worry about during your beach weekend is an uncomfortable bloated belly, you may want to steer clear […]

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An Unexpected Way to Fight the Effects of Aging, According to Science

Purpose is what’s up, people: Just last month we told you about a study that found a significant correlation between having a sense of purpose […]

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GrubHub: Penn Students Are Our Healthiest Consumers

A survey conducted by mobile food delivery app GrubHub found that students attending the University of Pennsylvania place 108 percent more orders for healthy food […]

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Goodbye, Boring Veggie Wraps: 6 Philly Food Trucks Vegans Should Know About

Ah, food truck-lined streets: A grub-filled wonderland for most foodies, but for vegans, walking up to a window can be daunting. Dietary labels don’t always show up […]

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The Checkup: How This Common Weight-Loss Tactic Is Backfiring on You

• Just typing the words “counting calories” makes me die a little inside. It makes eating sound like … work. Yuck. And good news: Nutrition […]

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The Checkup: These Fridge Staples Are Totally Confusing Your Metabolism

• A new study published in Current Biology found that, not too surprisingly, foods that are both sweet and low-calorie (like, say, like yogurts with low-cal sweeteners […]

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7 Delicious Lunch Salads Around Philly That Won’t Leave You Hangry

There are few things as upsetting as spending $11 on a movie ticket only to realize 15 minutes into said movie that you would rather be color-coordinating your closet — or […]

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The Checkup: The Sneaky Way Your Breakfast May Be Making You Pack on Pounds

• If you just chowed down on a big bowl of cereal, sorry to be the bearer of bad news: New research published in Nature […]

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How to Salvage Wilted Salad Greens Instead of Throwing Them Away

Two weekends ago, I went to yoga at Rebel in Chestnut Hill, and I couldn’t resist hitting up the weekend farmers’ market down the street […]

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The Checkup: The Happy Hour Mistake That Could Be Poisoning You

• Attention, all Moscow mule lovers: The Instagram-worthy copper mug holding your favorite delicious happy hour cocktail may be poisoning you. As public health officials recently pointed out, copper […]

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The Checkup: The Undercover Health Issue You Should Be Paying Attention To 

• Loneliness: It’s not necessarily something we think about as related to health, but it is. And according to a recent review of studies from AARP, […]

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The Checkup: How Much Protein Do You Really Need Every Day? 

• Chances are, if you you’re overdoing it on the protein front. While the era of Paleo diets and healthified jerky all over the place […]

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The Checkup: The New Food Label to Have on Your Radar

• Glyphosate, a chemical that’s used to kill weeds and is identified by the World Health Organization as a possible human carcinogen, might be lurking in […]

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10 Cool Adult Lunch Boxes You’ll Actually Want to Carry to Work

  Raise your hand if you’ve spent way more money on Sweetgreen than you’d like to admit. We’re with you. We’re thinking it’s time we stop […]