If you have spent decades eating your vegetables just to be told you are still doing it wrong, you are officially allowed to roll your eyes. It turns out that even if your diet is pristine, you are likely missing a hidden ingredient your heart needs to stay young. A [...]
Remember when you could eat a slice of cold pizza over the kitchen sink at 2:00 AM and wake up feeling like an Olympic athlete? Yes, those days are firmly in the rearview mirror. As we cross into the golden territory of 50 and beyond, our bodies begin to dropping [...]
Remember when you could roll out of bed after four hours of sleep, eat a cold slice of pizza for breakfast, and comfortably lift a couch? Welcome to the era where sleeping at an odd angle requires a two-day physical therapy intervention, and looking at a flight of stairs makes [...]
There is a collective trauma shared by almost everyone who lived through the low-fat diet crazes of the late 20th century. We were told to strip the flavor, remove the skin, and bake chicken breasts until they achieved the texture and taste of a corrugated cardboard box. It was deemed [...]
If you have spent the last few decades dutifully scraping the fat off your steaks and opting for that watery, blue-tinted skim milk, you may want to sit down—preferably with a nice piece of sharp cheddar. For years, we were told that fat was the enemy, a villain lurking in [...]
Remember when “getting enough protein” meant occasionally opting for the larger steak at the Friday night fish fry? Those were simpler times. Nowadays, if you listen to the fitness gurus on social media, you’d think you need to carry a gallon of chalky sludge and a dry chicken breast in [...]
