About Healthy Eating

Overall, while there are benefits associated with starvation and caloric restriction, studies show that eating 2 or 3 meals a day is probably a better choice for your general health compared with eating just one a day (5). Research has also shown that intermittent fasting, including longer periods of starvation, such as a single-meal-per-day diet, […]

Orthorexia is the destructive health-food obsession, which places an extreme emphasis on the quality of food in the diet. Orthorexia starts out as rules about eating, or following diets, but it is so much more. In orthorexia, eating begins to take on a moral character, with foods divided between the good and the bad, the […]

Eating raw eggs certainly has risks, and the fact remains you can reap almost all the same health benefits from cooked eggs. While raw eggs have a little bit more nutrition, the nutrients in cooked eggs are actually easier for your body to digest and absorb. Keep in mind, one small study found that protein […]

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics notes that liver is extremely high in cholesterol and vitamin A, so you will want to limit intake to a low level, even if you like eating it. Eating a whole fresh serving of liver more often than twice per week may result in Vitamin A hypervitaminosis. Excess vitamin […]

The National Association of Eating Disorders does not have a defined treatment plan for people suffering with symptoms characteristic of orthorexia. It is currently not recognized as a distinct eating disorder in the clinical setting, so someone visiting the physician with symptoms will not be formally diagnosed with orthorexia, though the term might come up […]

One major downside to most diet plans is they leave you hungry, and as it turns out, following a diet that has you eating just one meal per day is no different. Eating once a day is certainly not one of the best strategies for losing weight. Many of the experts who are pushing toxic […]

If you are not cautious about whether or not can you eat tuna everyday, or what is the limit, it is going to be an indication that tuna poses that you need to think about carefully. If you manage to eat tuna within the limit, then you do not need to worry about mercury and […]

The aim of the present study was to evaluate food consumption in the four main outlets–stores, full-service restaurants, fast-food restaurants, and schools–using the 2015 Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2015) and assessing changes over time. The Healthy Eating Index (HEI), which was developed to reflect dietary guidelines; the alternative healthy eating index (AHEI), which is composed of […]

The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is a tool developed by USDA and National Cancer Institute to assess how closely a diet conforms with the U.S. dietary guidelines. Design The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) was developed on a 10-component system consisting of five food groups, four nutrients, and a measure of diversity in food consumption. The […]

Although it is not a formal eating disorder as defined by the DSM-5, orthorexia may be just as clinically relevant as any other disorder covered by this guideline, and may result in serious physical and/or mental health consequences. Although orthorexia Nervosa is currently not recognized as a clinical diagnosis, as is anorexia nervosa or bulimia […]