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Here’s Your Happiness Shopping List
These feel-good foods are better alternatives than inhaling a sleeve of ultraprocessed crackers.
Holidays, Happier: Start a New Family Tradition
Nurture your family’s holiday food traditions across cultures.
Honey Primer + 5 Honey Ideas
Its healthful benefits, from allergy aid to antioxidant superhero (plus recipes).
How Listening to Your Gut Can Curb Anxiety: An Eater’s Guide
Creating balance in your gut can help to alleviate your anxiety.
How Now, Brown Cow
“The fact that I am not among the 16.4 million Americans who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows is sheer luck!”
How To Make Vegetable Broth From Cooking Scraps
Here’s how to try this eco-friendly technique at home.
Hungry for More: What to Eat for Sexual Vitality
Rev up your sexual vitality with cinnamon and other surprising foods.
Iodine Boosts IQ
A Plain Jane among supplements, iodine is easy to take for granted. After U.S. salt manufacturers began iodizing their salt in the 1920s, iodine deficiency practically disappeared.…
Is Now the Best Time to Fast? The Doctor Says Yes
Dr. Andreas Michalsen, author of The Fasting Fix, uses fasting to treat a number of diseases from osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and hypertension to cardiovascular disease, early stages of dementia, Crohn’s disease, and irritable bowel disease.
Learning the Personalities of Plants
The wisdom, comfort, and health that come from deeply knowing your relatives
Leave Anxiety on the Plate
Uma Naidoo, author of This Is Your Brain on Food, explores how the foods we eat may be driving up our anxiety.
Making Peace With Salt
Even as the FDA harangues the food industry for using excessive levels of sodium, and your doctor tsk-tsks at your high blood pressure, bear in mind that salt keeps us alive. The h…
Maple-Sweetened Apple Cake
Sitting at my kitchen table in the morning a few weeks ago I was struck with an urgent feeling that I must go home to my parents. An hour later I had flights booked and bags p…
Meal Magic: Setting the Tamada-Flavored Table
One of my most memorable meals wasn't an actual meal; rather, it was a dining experience cradled in hospitality, friendship, and good, simple food. The place: the patio of a friend…
Microgreen Power
When it comes to plant-based nutrition, most people envision long rows of organic farmland with luxurious stretches of leafy lettuces, kale, and other greens. But there’s another t…
Mindful Eating: The Benefits and How to Start
Mindful eating means being intentional about what, when, and how you eat. It can become more intuitive the more you practice.
My Wooden Bowl: Container of Contentment?
“I was intrigued three decades ago when I learned that Mahatma Ghandi ate all of his food out of one bowl. I decided to emulate him, starting with a medium-sized very plain wooden bowl that someone had already given me as a gift.”
Podcast: Indigenous Foods with Sean Sherman
Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef, Sean Sherman talks to Rami about Native American cuisine and the cultural wisdom that embodies it.
Power Foods for Better Health
Broccoli Fights Cancer Even Better with SpiceWe’ve all heard about broccoli’s amazing properties for fighting cancer. Now a new study from the University of Illinois shows that bro…
