diets and dieting

Keeping track of your health is important for lots of reasons, with one of the most important being disease prevention. Poor diet, not exercising regularly

 With the new year comes the ubiquitious resolve by people around the country to lose some weight.

Not only is it important to know fitness and gym terminology, but it's even more important to know nutrition and diet terminology. Most people have a tendenc

Are you looking for something to help you feel full quickly, regulate your bowels, lower bad cholesterol (LDL) and improve blood sugar control?

Nutritionists from the University of Maryland Medical System regularly contribute guest posts to The Baltimore Sun's Picture of Health blog. The latest pos

March is National Peanut Month.

Join Elizabeth Parker and Melissa Tillett for class at Great Sage as they discuss some of the medical science behind a healthy plant-based diet. Learn strategies to encourage children to eat more plant-based meals and get ideas for packable school lunches.

The latest addendum to "Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020" goes into excruciating detail, with charts and graphs and stuff, all about how Americans like you and me need to eat Healthy!

Republicans in Congress think the nutrition guideline process is out of control and are now trying to rein in the panel. By their lights, nutrition scientists should concern themselves with nutrition — not sustainability. Critics say they're pandering to special interests. The funny thing is: Both sides may be right.

Flowers, like herbs and other plants, have long been a staple in the human diet, not only flavoring foods and drinks but serving as folk therapies for a range of health maladies. Now they're popping up in products marketed as health drinks.

By Meredith Cohn

Sep 15, 2015

Having enough probiotics is essential for maintaining good health. This can easily be accomplished with fermented foods — a "new" health trend with roots dating back to 6000 B.C. in civilizations all over the world including Asia, Africa, and even Ancient Rome.

Real food offers a way out of a restrictive and unsatisfying diet-binge cycle.

A panel of nutritionists and health experts that updates the nation's Dietary Guidelines every five years included sugar reduction in a draft last month. Natural sugars are OK, the panel said, but people should not eat more than 200 calories a day in added sugar.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Mar 25, 2015

March is National Nutrition Month, a campaign founded by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The purpose of the month of awareness is to educate people about the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, both through diet and physical activity.

February is National Heart Month, a good time to make dietary changes, reduce stress and start exercising.

That topic will be the focal point of an event on Sunday at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Sheba is a new Ethiopian option in Canton

The celebrity and John "Jack" Dwyer, chairman of the family of Capital Funding companies, purchased the property for $4.5 million in a 50-50 venture in January after being connected by Dimitris Spiliadis, whose family opened the 12-room hotel in 2011 and lost it to foreclosure last summer.

Baltimore City plans to help corner stores in West Baltimore stock healthier fare, and get kids and their parents interested in buying it, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce childhood obesity.