When you’re trying to achieve a lower number on the scale, one of your first orders of business is reevaluating your go-to food choices and overall diet. Take yogurt, for example. It’s marketed as a “healthy” snack or grab-and-go breakfast, but many varieties contain a sneaky amount of sugar. So, can eating yogurt help you…

Food is indeed medicine, according to a large new study, and a prescription for produce could be a game changer. The study, which was conducted on 4,000 people from clinics serving low-income neighborhoods, examined the effect of produce vouchers given to people with diet-related diseases. The participants of the study had either diabetes, obesity or…

This combination of banana, milk and dates is a hit among people looking for healthy meal alternatives, but do you know why? This is because of the high protein, carbohydrates and potassium content, which when combined with iron rich dates and healthy fat loaded milk, makes for a nutritious and wholesome combination, which helps boost…

If there’s one thing that the Europeans got right, it’s the Mediterranean Diet. Shared for generations among a range of otherwise quite different countries, the pro-oil, fish, lean protein, and vegetable lifestyle has been tied to several health benefits from cutting fat to neurological advances in battling dementia to promoting heart health. The diet —…

01 Nov Healthy Eating: Top 5 Best Diets to Follow US News & World Report announced  that the Mediterranean style of eating is the best overall diet for 2023.  Only 24 diets were ranked instead of 40 that were analyzed in the past years. Vegan, vegetarian, Nordic, traditional Asian and the glycemic index were integrated into the Mediterranean because…

As part of its efforts to promote healthy dietary habits and reduce the level of malnutrition amongst women in Lagos State, the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has organised an ‘Advocacy on Healthy Nutrition’ as an intervention programme for over 300 grassroots families in the Ajeromi Local Government and Ifelodun Local Council Development…

It’s found in virtually every kitchen, restaurant booth, and dining room in the Western world: the salt shaker. Despite its ubiquity — or perhaps, because of it — salt has fallen under the scrutiny of medical researchers, who agree that table salt and other forms of added sodium have unintended health consequences. And now, a…