There’s an easy way to help you lose more weight.

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This famous monounsaturated fat helps lower risk of heart disease and makes a healthy substitution to improve your health.

In order to optimize your ability to stick with regular physical activity, try to enjoy your favorite types of exercise outdoors in nature, whenever and wherever possible.

With that interest there has been an explosion of processed plant-based foods, including non-dairy cheese alternatives, which have seen a hefty 45% growth in sales.(1) Are these non-dairy cheeses actually healthier than their dairy counterparts?

When it comes to promoting health and longevity, there’s a group of vegetables that’s as precious, valuable and enduring as gold...only they’re green. Green gold.

You’ve heard the familiar adage: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But how does that saying also apply to an avocado, given that 80% of its calories come from fat, versus only 3% in an apple?

Medical experts agree: if you don’t drink, you don’t need to start drinking alcohol to protect your heart. If you do drink, stay within the recommended limits of moderate alcohol intake: one standard drink every 24 hours for women, two standard drinks every 24 hrs for men.

Intake enough water and other fluids throughout the day to keep your urine pale yellow (shade 4 or less), unless your doctor has told you otherwise. In order to help you do that, drink water throughout the day and eat more whole fiber-rich fruits, vegetables, beans and cooked whole grains, like oatmeal, brown rice and quinoa. In addition to all their many health-promoting nutrients, phytochemicals and fiber, these foods contain an abundance of water.