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Losing Weight

5 Truths about low carb diets

According to experts, in the long run, low-carb diets just don’t work! Now, it’s true that low-carbohydrate, high-protein plans can...

SheKnows TV: Delicious Life Challenge

Nutritional guide for women

Eating right is one of the best ways women can feel and look their best, but it's also one of the most challenging aspects of a...

Prevention & Detection

Reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence

There is a growing body of evidence that diet plays a significant role in helping prevent a recurrence of breast cancer. For...

Losing Weight

Burn more calories: Tips for a high metabolism

Everyone wants to keep her metabolism burning hot, but as we age, our metabolic rates naturally slow down. Here, Diane Kress,...

Having a Baby

The breastfeeding diet for nursing moms

Hey, Mama! If you're wondering if you should be on a special breastfeeding diet, we have the answers about getting the right...

Conditions

Egg recalls: Spot the signs of salmonella

If you've shopped at a grocery store in Iowa recently, don't opt for scrambled eggs for breakfast -- or any meal. An Iowa egg...

Losing Weight

Lose weight: Eat more carbs

For the past few decades, we've been conditioned to be carbophobic because we've been told that pasta, rice and potatoes cause you...

Losing Weight

The Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels fat-blasting cookbook

As the no-mercy personal trainer on NBC’s reality series, The Biggest Loser , Jillian Michaels is like a drill sergeant on...

Wellness

Healthy iPhone apps you can’t live without

For many, the iPhone is one of your best friends. It keeps your schedule, means you’ll never miss an important email and helps...

Dieting & Nutrition

Lower your salt intake

Tthe newly revised 2010 Dietary Guidelines decrease the recommended upper limit for sodium intake from 2300 milligrams to 1500. The...

Dieting & Nutrition

Deciphering food labels

Now that you’re finally familiar with food labeling jargon such as fat free, calorie free and trans fat free, manufacturers have...

Self Improvement & Mental Health

Look your best in that bathing suit

When summer heat blasts, you’ve got to be ready to strip down. While you don’t need to show off your birthday suit – except in...

Losing Weight

Biggest Loser: Where are the Biggest Losers now?

In less than two weeks, nearly 50 former Biggest Loser contestants will head to San Francisco to put the skills they learned to...

Wellness

Surefire tips to slim down

Does the bloat from your monthly cycle eliminate half your wardrobe? Just because it’s your time of the month doesn’t necessarily...

Wellness

Best foods to eat while on your period

It’s that time of the month, and you’re tired, irritable and bloated. Though you’d much rather reach for a bag of potato chips than...

SheKnows TV: Chat Pack

Secrets of healthy women

You’ve seen them: Those women with enviable elan, radiant smiles, glowing skin and fit physiques. Though some women are genetically...

Dieting & Nutrition

Healthy gluten-free bread made easy

Being diagnosed with celiac disease or gluten intolerance and having to adapt to a gluten-free diet can initially seem an unpleasant...

Dieting & Nutrition

Pasta for breakfast is good for your health

Waking up to a bowl of pasta or helping of lasagna for breakfast may be a deviation from usual your bowl of oatmeal, but it turns...

Wellness

How to love yourself inside and out

You've blown your healthy regimen with plenty of indulgences, and now you’re on a mission to berate yourself at every chance....

Dieting & Nutrition

7 Healthy midnight snacks

You’ve probably heard the weight loss rule that eating after 8 pm can have a negative impact on your waistline. Not so! What really...

Wellness

Exhausted? Easy ways to get energized

Without question, life is a whirl of a million little details that you do your best to keep in check. If you’re like most women,...