4 ways to support or improve your gut health

You might be surprised to learn that gut health is the latest buzzy topic on TikTok.

Under hashtags like #guttok, #guthealth and #guthealing, influencers and every day users alike are posting thousands of videos, sharing stories about their gut health struggles and remedies.

And they’ve raked in a little over

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11 healthy food swaps that will make losing weight easier

Losing a little weight doesn’t have to mean completely transforming how and what you eat. By simply making some healthy food swaps, you can make surprisingly drastic changes.

While there are plenty of great ways to improve your diet and lose weight, such as trying one of the best protein

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Rice diet: Benefits, effectiveness, recipes

The rice diet is a high-carbohydrate, low-fat, low-protein diet to lose weight. The diet features calorie deficit, reduced sodium, and mindfulness and may help some people lose weight and achieve better health.

A research scientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina created the rice diet in the 1940s.

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A Multicultural Food Writer’s Pick

The first and only time I went to a dietitian, they gave me a pamphlet with healthy recipes, as you might expect.

Still, I wasn’t prepared for what I saw.

Dull-colored cantaloupe stuffed with cottage cheese, soggy iceberg lettuce salads, and bland rice substitutes greeted me as I peeled back

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Food Price Inflation and Health

Whatever the cause(s) of inflation in food prices—economic crisis, supply chain chaos, the disruptions of war, corporate profiteering—the effects can be quite grim. Especially amongst the poor. And especially amongst the poorest of the poor.

High and increasing food prices generate an immediate threat to the security of a

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Coconut curry and peppered tofu: Riaz Phillips’ vegan Jamaican recipes | Caribbean food and drink

There’s lots I crave about Jamaican food, beyond jerk and curried meat. At cook shops, tucked away in shopping plazas, on highway roadsides and up in the hills, the Rastafari and Seventh-Day Adventists alike serve a rotating daily feast of plant-based dishes that celebrate the island’s fresh produce, from

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The Friday Checkout: Amazon, not so Fresh?

The Friday Checkout is a weekly column providing more insight on the news, rounding up the announcements you may have missed and sharing what’s to come.

As Amazon continues to grow its Fresh grocery banner footprint across the U.S., the company has made its technology a prime draw, but what

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Food swaps, cooking tips, and more

People with high cholesterol levels may benefit from adopting a low fat diet. This involves reducing the intake of foods high in saturated and trans fats, both of which increase the harmful type of cholesterol that clogs the arteries.

People can transition to a lower fat diet by making simple

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Follow These 6 Nutrition Pros for Culturally Competent Diet Advice

Follow these six inclusive dietitians for nutrition advice without a heaping side of guilt.

If you’re anything like me, you may hear the word “dietitian” and automatically stiffen.

Many of us who are disabled or have larger bodies have been subjected to various types of discrimination in healthcare settings. The

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