“You Are What You Eat” Is Just A Subtle Form Of Thinspiration
The Characters On Friends Were Not Suicidal Caffeine Junkies, FYI
Clinique Debuts Line Of Nail Polish For Sensitive Skin
Five Workouts You Can do for Arms Like Michelle Obama’s (That Don’t Involve Surgery)
Workout Playlist: Carrie’s “Get It Girl” Playlist
Meatless Monday: 6 Healthy, Vegetarian Cinco De Mayo Recipes
• Looking for new healthy snacks? These get the green light from nutritionists (Well & Good)
• Even more information about sitting and how it’s killing you (Intent)
• How (and why) to sprout your own lentils (FitSugar)
• So, this is weird, but you’ve probably wondered…what color is normal for baby poop, anyway? (The Stir)
• Roadblocks that may make it hard to order healthy take-out–and how to avoid them (HuffPost Healthy Living)
Personally, I could eat my weight in chips and salsa. I love it all year, in any season—but never more so than in summer, when fresh tomatoes and herbs make it taste even better than ever. Peach salsa and mango salsa are pretty standard these days, but I really love salsas that feature other, more unusual seasonal ingredients. More
• Kathy Freston reveals what’s really in your chicken meat (HuffPost Healthy Living)
• Got a sweet craving? Quash it with the perfect parfait (IntentBlog)
• Unsurprisingly, Snooki is not down with stretch marks. Here’s how to reduce them (The Stir)
• We love cold soup! Here are three cool gazpacho recipes for hot days (FitSugar)
• Spanking isn’t the only way–here are some gentler alternatives (Your Tango)
• Nervous about chemicals in your skincare products? Here are some home remedies for every beauty problem (Divine Caroline)
This is interesting. Today, Gawker found a video wherein McDonald’s Canada’s executive chef answered a consumer’s question about what’s in the their Big Mac secret sauce. They also pulled up a recipe for the sauce, as well as the ingredient list for the secret sauces in both the US and Canada. Can you guess which country’s McDonald’s secret sauce is full of way more sugar and preservatives? More
Last year, I visited my partner’s family in the South–and I’ll admit, I drank my fair share of Bojangles’Â sweet tea. It was delicious. It was sugary. It was probably the reason my shorts didn’t fit after the vacation. But I came back to the Northwest hankering for a cool drink that was refreshing, sweet, and maybe a little caffeinated. So I experimented. A lot. And I figured out how to make the best iced tea–without adding mounts of sweetener. More
I’m really, really good at making one thing: soup. In the fall and winter, I make soup at least once a week with whatever’s in season, and it’s one of the few things I’m actually proud of. Unfortunately, on sweltering summer days, the last thing anyone wants to do is hunch over a steaming bowl of corn chowder, so I’ve had to figure out how to make cold soup that doesn’t, you know…taste like an old/cold bowl of slop. More
Alright, I’m just going to admit it: while I’m a health blogger by day, I’m kind of a tippler by night. Which is to say, I enjoy a good cocktail and a frosty pint of beer, calories and health studies be damned (although, actually, moderate drinking has been getting some love from Science, lately). But one of my favorite, favorite ways to get some refreshing alcohol in me is to make beer cocktails, which are pretty much exactly what they sound like. And while a beer cocktail isn’t exactly a health food, adding soda water, fruit, and other not-that-bad ingredients can lighten the load on an otherwise gut-bombing brew. More
In my exploration of seasonable produce from my local Farmer’s Market, I finally came across one veggie that I thought I knew how to use: bok choy. My mom used to put it in a salad made with (this is true) raw Top Ramen noodles and some kind of vinaigrette (it was a recipe from when my great-grandparents lived in Hawaii), and besides, I’d seen it in stir-fries and things at restaurants. Ha! I thought. Bok choy, you are not my nemesis. But then I took it home and realized that, much like a Christmas puppy, it deserved more love than I was prepared to give it. More
Philanthropist and entrepreneur and health advocate Cornelia Guest is perhaps not a typical vegan. The daughter of actor, socialite, and fashion icon C.Z. Guest and polo champion Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, she’s about as blue-blooded as they come. But Guest is also an activist–and an animal lover. Which is what inspired her to write her new book, Cornelia Guest’s Simple Pleasures, which blends healthy vegan cooking and baking with high-brown entertaining. More
8 Things You Shouldn't Do Before Bed
True Or False: Marathoners Can Eat Whatever They Want
Clueless Mom Gives Birth on a Bike Without Realizing It
The Sweetest Twitter Marriage Proposal You’ll Ever See
Why Don’t More Women Talk About Masturbation?
Because I am from the Pacific Northwest, it should come as no surprise that, prior to the start of my illustrious internet writing career, I was a barista. For a lot of years. And during that time, I learned a thing or two about how to make a pretty decent cup of coffee–but by far the most important skill I learned was how to make iced coffee that isn’t a thin, watery, disgusting mess. More
Last week, I wrote about my woefully limited knowledge of how to put all of summer’s fresh produce to good use, and my experimentation with dandelion greens. This week, I’m at it again, with a slightly more challenging seasonal selection: rhubarb. I have no idea how to cook with rhubarb. Let’s find out together, shall we? More
It’s farmer’s market season, which, for many of us, means a bounty of fresh, local produce is available just around the corner. But for me, it means that, as I stroll past the booths bursting with color, I’m once again confronted with the embarrassing realization that I don’t know what to do with half of the stuff that’s available. So this year, I’m going to finally figure out all of the intimidating roots, fruits, and greens that I’d previously avoided. This week, I’m learning how to use dandelion greens. More
Last week, I wrote a little listicle about the 6 ingredients that have absolutely no place in your sunny, summery, super-healthy homemade trail mix. Of course, that’s not super-helpful if, say, you’re making trail mix and you’re not sure what you should put in it. So here’s a follow up, with the 6 ingredients you should always include in your protein-packed roadtrip snack. More
• Fad diets aren’t all bad–they can actually teach us stuff (FitSugar)
• Here’s another DIY pop recipe…but this one includes wine! (The Kitchn)
• Dumbbell rows can do wonders for your arms, but not if you’re doing them wrong (HuffPost Healthy Living)
• Does being in a relationship change your healthy habits? (YourTango)
•  The Drinking Woman’s Diet: one woman’s way to have her booze and eat food, too (Divine Caroline)
