Health & Diet News & Features
- Is Your Diet Aging You?
WebMD discusses the diet habits that may help you stay as young as possible inside and out.
- Chefs' Diet Secrets
Learn the chefs’ diet secrets -- including how they manage their weight, avoid eating all day, and much more.
- Sodas and Your Health: Risks Debated
WebMD examines the facts about sodas. There are so many studies that the information can be confusing. Learn the real health effects of soda and diet soda.
- Fast, Nutritious Meals to Feed Surprise Guests
Here's how to throw together a nutritious meal for surprise guests.
- Easy High-Fiber Breakfasts
How to make quick, healthy, high-fiber breakfasts that will satisfy your hunger.
- Eggs: 8 Healthy Facts
From nutritional benefits to ancient symbolism, we've eight ten things we bet you didn't know about eggs.
- Diet Sodas Cause Weight Gain? Not so Fast
WebMD discusses the facts about diet soda and whether it truly causes weight gain.
- High-Fiber Diets and Weight Loss
The secret to weight loss may be as simple as more fiber.
- How Fiber Protects Your Heart
How dietary fiber protects heart health and helps lower cholesterol.
- How Fiber Helps Your Digestive Health
Find out how fiber can help your digestion: It’s much more than keeping you regular.
- Swiss Chard: 9 Healthy Facts
The history and nutritional benefits of Swiss chard -- plus a fabulous recipe for a swiss chard frittata
- Healthy Eats: Getting Parents to Share the Cooking
Taking turns making meals with your hubby or partner could be crucial to your children's long-term health.
- When Your Healthy Diet Isn't So Healthy
WebMD discusses the common diet mistakes we make, from cutting too many carbs to succumbing to fad diets. Learn how to fix these nutrition blunders.
- Healthy Eats: How to Satisfy the Picky Eaters in Your Family
How do you satisfy the picky eaters in your family? The secret lies in offering variety while avoiding cooking everyone separate meals. Plus, check out our fail-proof chicken breast recipe.
- Guy's Guide to Grilling
Tips, tricks, and recipes for delicious, heart-healthy meals cooked outside.
- Late-Night Snacks
Can eating at night make you gain weight?
- Pre-Workout Snacks
In general, you don’t need to eat before exercise. So when should you?
- Weight Gain
How can I stop myself from eating too much?
- Cloned Animal Meat
The FDA says cloned animals are safe to eat.
- What to Eat Before, During, and After Exercise
Which foods are best for fitness activities, and which should you avoid? With so many sports drinks, bars, powders, and supplements to choose from, how do you know which are best? Expert Christine Rosenbloom, PhD, answers these and other questions about eating for fitness.
- Movie Snacks: The Ugly Diet Truth
AWebMD unveils some of the worst movie snacks and some healthier, lower-calorie options to satisfy your sweet tooth.
- Diet and Autism
Are there certain foods, nutrients, or supplements that can help children with autism? What's the ideal diet for a child with autism? Expert Brian Udell, MD, answers these and other questions about diet and autism.
- Four Heavenly, Heart-Healthy Entrees
Warm heart and soul this Valentine's Day with easy-to-make entrees that are as good for you as they are delicious.
- How to Design Your Own Diet
Expert advice on how to design your own diet.
- 13 Ways to Fight Sugar Cravings
WebMD discusses 13 ways you can fight sugar cravings.
- How to Help Your Child Avoid "Freshman 15" Weight Gain
Gaining extra pounds in those first few months of college isn't inevitable -- especially if your child learns how to eat well and fit in exercise.
- The Natural Diet: Best Foods for Weight Loss
You can eat more and still lose weight. The secret may be as simple as an apple.
- What Are the Best Sources of Drinking Water?
How do you know if your tap water is good to drink? Should you put in a water filter? Invest in a purified water system? Here’s what to know about good drinking water.
- Water and Stress Reduction: Sipping Stress Away
The link between water and stress reduction is well documented. All of our organs, including our brains, need water to function properly. If you’re dehydrated, your body isn’t running well -- and that can lead to stress.
- Sweets and Treats in a Healthy Diet
Whether your family prefers dessert after dinner or an afternoon treat, sweets can be part of a balanced diet as long as you pay attention to portion sizes and choose healthier treats.
- Summer Corn -- More Than Delicious
Corn is an ancient vegetable that is packed full of nutrients, especially when you use it in our fabulous corn slaw recipe!
- Expert Q&A: Eating With Food Allergies
WebMD's expert discusses living with food allergies and food intolerances, and how to avoid allergenic foods at home and in restaurants. Learn the facts about both child and adult food allergies.
- Low-Sodium Diet: How to Eat Less Sodium at Restaurants
Restaurant meals can be shockingly high in sodium. But it's possible to follow a low-salt diet even when you're dining out.
- For Flavor and Vitamin C, Try a Papaya!
Called the "fruit of the angels," the papaya packs a delicious and powerful punch of vitamins -- especially in our Tropical Salad.
- Which Diet Is Right for You?
Tired of weight loss programs that just don't seem to work? You just might not have the right diet for your personality.
- 11 Simple Steps to a Healthier Diet
Making little changes to your diet can add up to big health benefits. Here's how to get started with a healthy diet.
- Experts' Best Diet Tips for Weight Loss
To get answers about what really works for weight loss, WebMD turned to eight noted diet and nutrition experts for their own favorite diet tips.
- Expert Q&A: Losing the Baby Weight
For expert advice on how to lose baby weight the healthy way, WebMD turned to Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD; a dietitian; author of Expect the Best; mom of three daughters; and an expert in pregnancy, lactation and kids' nutrition.
- Types of Teas and Their Health Benefits
The cup of tea you’re drinking may foretell a healthy life ahead. Regarded for thousands of years in the East as a key to good health, happiness, and wisdom, it has lately caught the attention of researchers in the West who are discovering the many health benefits of teas.
- Natural Allergy Remedies
Natural allergy remedies and treatments are nothing to sneeze at – some may enhance or even take the place of allergy medications.
- 5 Fat-Burning Strategies
WebMD consulted an exercise physiologist and an exercise physiologist/registered dietitian to find out how best to burn fat -- once and for all!
- Healthy Cooking Secrets from Celebrity Chefs
What advice do celebrity chefs have for those of us looking to cook and eat healthy food at home?
- Chef Curtis Stone Dishes Up Healthy Eating
Take Home Chef star Curtis Stone talks about favorite meals, food memories, healthy cooking, and his own health habits.
- Answers to Your Questions about Probiotics
Here are some answers to five common questions about probiotics and the products that contain them, from yogurt to supplements.
- Coffee's Surprising Health Benefits
As it turns out, coffee doesn’t just wake you up; it’s good for you, too.
- Need to Lose a Few Pounds Fast? Here’s How
How to lose a few pounds fast
- Safer Food For a Healthier You
Pesticides in produce, hormones in milk. What are these unexpected ingredients doing in your food, and how can you avoid them?
- Top Diet Stories of 2008: Readers' Choice
The 10 most viewed diet stories on WebMD for 2008.
- Expert Q&A: Eating to Control High Blood Pressure
WebMD interviews diet expert Dean Ornish, MD, on the relationship between food and high blood pressure (hypertension). Learn how diet changes can improve your blood pressure and prevent heart disease.
- Expert Q&A: Heart-Healthy Eating
WebMD interviews Dr. Dean Ornish, author of The Spectrum, about what it means to eat a heart-healthy diet. Learn which foods you can enjoy and which to avoid, and how to make lifestyle changes that improve your overall health.