Healthy Recipes

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The Checkup: The Busy Person’s Guide to Eating Healthy With Very Little Time

• The other day, I ordered Indian food and the delivery guy, who usually delivers from another neighborhood spot, asked me if I was “cheating […]

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What to Eat This Week: Breakfast Bowls for Dinner

Simply put, a breakfast bowl is the upgraded eggs with toast. And since I often eat eggs with toast for dinner — and I’m guessing […]

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How to Sneak Veggies Into Your Breakfast

Ahhhh, breakfast: the most important meal of the day (and the yummiest one, if you ask me). Even though a ho-hum bowl of cereal could do […]

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What to Eat This Week: Good-for-Your-Gut Dinners

Focusing on your gut health is all the rage these days, and for good reason: A gut full of good bacteria can lead to all […]

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Pumpkin-Spice Up Your Life: 18 Healthy Pumpkin Recipes to Make Now

In case you haven’t heard the terrible news, there may be a pumpkin shortage headed our way this fall. The majority of pumpkins grown in […]

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The Checkup: How to Order from McDonald’s Breakfast Menu Like a Nutrition Pro

• Let’s face it: There may come a day (probably following a late night of way too many margaritas) where you find yourself staring at […]

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What to Eat This Week: 5 Soup Recipes to Ring in Soup Season 

As I type this, the temperature is 48 degrees and it’s been raining for hours. So yeah, I think it’s safe to say that soup […]

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What to Eat This Week: Cheesy Meals You Won’t Feel Bad About Eating

Remember, back in the day, when your mom made you some killer SpongeBob-shaped (or Arthur!) macaroni and cheese and, in the moment of that first […]

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The Checkup: This Oh-So-Easy Pre-Meal Habit Could Help You Shed Pounds

• A new study done by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. found that folks who downed two glasses of water 30 […]

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What to Eat This Week: End-of-Summer Salads You’ll Be Dying to Eat

It might still feel like a furnace outside, but guess what? Fall is upon us! If you’re downright dreading naked trees, chilly morning runs and Saturdays spent on […]

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What to Eat This Week: 5 Dinners That Require Basically No Time in the Kitchen

Some days, I come home after work and just want to collapse onto the couch and never move again. But then I realize that I […]

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What to Eat This Week: Dishes You Need to Make Before Summer Ends

My neighbor just handed me three giant summer squashes and a handful of heirloom tomatoes over our backyard fence. She didn’t want them, and I […]

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The Checkup: Why Science Says You Should Watch Cat Videos at Work

• Who needs endless Starbucks soy lattes when you have cat videos? As a new video from the American Chemical Society points out, science shows […]

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What to Eat This Week: Tomatoes, Tomatoes and More Tomatoes

Around this time of year, I always find myself staring at a mountain of tomatoes that could easily feed a family of seven for two weeks […]

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Make: Grilled Pear and Chicken Salad With Blue Cheese 

I’ve had many burgers, I’ve had many beers, and there’s still half a bag of kettle-cooked potato chips plaguing me in my pantry. Two people […]